Knowledge: We can't afford to encourage MORE irrigation during a 26-year-long mega-drought.

PLEASE HELP SAVE OUR LITTLE LOGAN RIVER's green spaces and recreation 

Our Rivers and the collapsing Great Salt Lake need your help

YOU can still stop the wildly expensive and destructive Logan River Watershed Project (LRWP).

PLEASE OPPOSE THE LRWP and urge sponsors to lease their unused water right to the Great Salt Lake instead

 

• How?  Email, snail mail ASAP, or call with YOUR comments to Ammon Boswell, Watershed Program Manager
• 1950 West Main Street, Tremonton, UT 84337
• (435) 459-1621
• ammon.boswell@usda.gov.   

                                     THERE IS A June 22 deadline.

ammon.boswell@usda.gov

EVERY residence in Logan, North Logan and Hyde Park will be required to pay a monthly fee-regardless of whether irrigation
services their property. 
$ 84/ year.

LOGAN RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT AIMS to spend our tax money 

($309 million to install, 2 million a year to manage, plus over 50 years!!!!) 

to secure THEIR water right 

by adding new urban users of 

Logan River's water.  

In essence, this project asks all of us to pay for a benefit that only a small portion of the community gets.  

About 30% may opt in but what portion of the community will want to do so?

We found zero surveys of demand for pressurized irrigation water among potential users.

We found zero surveys of public views on the prospect of zero water in our rivers and parks in the future. 

We found zero surveys of voter willingness to be charged for this project's catastrophic impacts.

This is during a time when 97% 0f Utah's population is living in moderate to extreme drought.  The Great Salt Lake needs every drop of unused river water to stop collapsing.

We recommend LEASING the unused water right to the GSL until it is needed in our community.

FAQ questions about the project show this goal clearly.

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Water rights can be protected by leasing them to the Great Salt Lake.

This project is wildly and obscenely expensive.   Find out more here.

Knowledge: HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE LITTLE LOGAN RIVER IS A Protected RIVER, AND NOT A CANAL AS SPONSORS OF Logan River Watershed Project USUALLY CLAIM?

 ALERT

PLEASE submit comments opposing the. Logan River Watershed PROJECT:  It is Drought-DEFYING, river-DENYING and obscenely expensive.  Email  Logan River Watershed Project to oppose it. 

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HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THE LITTLE LOGAN RIVER IS A Protected RIVER, AND NOT A CANAL AS SPONSORS OF Logan River Watershed Project USUALLY CLAIM?

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The public's rights to a healthy, year-round Little Logan River are being violated

-Rivers are protected by Utah law yet the public's rights to a healthy, year-round Little Logan River are being violated by the owner of the river, Logan City and by Canal companies.   

-Implementing the Logan River Watershed Project would worsen this situation significantly, unless it is modified to honor the public's rights in Utah law 73-3-29.

A Win-Win is possible if water rights holder would permit ~ 20% (~10-15 cfs, which is enough water for most kids to go tubing in the river) of their recent unneeded/unused water right to flow naturally along the Little Logan River instead!

SECTIONS below:

1. Experts ARE amazed that there is a debate about the Little Logan River's status-it is river. Quick summary of evidence for the river status of the Little Logan River. Evidence was culled down to the main points.

2. Explanation why a river is protected, and the public’s rights to recreation, environment and aquatic species must be protected. This right has been violated for decades during winter dessication.

3. Detailed expanded evidence and analysis showing that the Little Logan River in indisputably a natural river and has not lost that status. There are > 30 types of evidence and arguments. You may wish to consult additional legal and historic documents for supporting facts (more information too).

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