Logan River Watershed EA

[Fisheneer]

Attention Admin, if this is not okay, please delete.  But we really want the BFT crowd to give their input in the process.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), with the Cache Water District, Crockett Avenue Irrigation and the cities of Logan, North Logan and Hyde Park as the project sponsors, is proposing to partially fund through the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, the Logan River Watershed Plan in Cache County. The plan will address flood control and flood protection, evaluate measures to reduce water loss and increase efficiency in the current irrigation delivery system and consider additional recreational facilities.

NRCS will hold an online public scoping meeting on January 28 to introduce the project as part of the Watershed Plan Environmental Assessment (Plan-EA). The public is invited to attend to learn more and ask questions. A brief presentation will be provided prior to a question and answer session. More information is available by contacting the study team at 435-213-2872 or loganriver@utwatershed.com.


Several public agencies, non-government agencies and key stake holders have given some cool comments during scoping and they really do want everyone’s input.  This is the one environmental process where alternatives haven’t even been developed yet. They have some concepts, but they start with a clean slate after the comments come in during scoping.  So, please, get involved if you are interested in the Logan River.

[SkunkedAgain]

I'm probably on both sides of this one since the water will benefit my farm and my fishing.  We did another similar project a couple years back that put our canal water into a pressurized pipe, what we seen was a huge increase in water that was released to the natural river flow, since we no longer wasted water in dirty, leaky ditches that sub and release water all along the way.  This has resulted in more water left in the channels for the fish to survive... This new project will simply put the water in the pipe further up the ditch so more water can be saved and left in the actual river channel, where the last project released the extra water into tributaries that dump into Cutler down stream of the Logan river...  What we gain as farmers is gravity flow so we don't have to pay the power company to pump up the pressure, and the water is left in the river channel through Logan so it won't dry up as much through the summer as it currently does.  I think it's a win-win opportunity for both sides of my personality... Just my take... Later Jeff

[Anglinarcher]

I agree Jeff.  From what I see it is a Win-Win.