Join us to hear how you can help keep water flowing into the Little Logan River, oppose wasteful spending, and more.
Our Cache Valley community needs YOUR help to beat back a bad project called the Logan River Watershed Project. Its sponsors are 10 canal companies, the Cache Water District (which increased your taxes by almost 100% recently) and 3 cities.
Boosters intends to use >410 million of our tax dollars over 50 years to install and operate an enormous, disruptive and ill-conceived pressurized irrigation system that “protects” Logan River water rights of the Crockett canal company. For reference, 410 million dollars is double the annual cut to the Utah State budget arising from the draconian cuts brought by the 2025 GOP budget bill (and DOGE?)!
The LRWP encourages and might force thousands of residential water users in west Logan, North Logan and Hyde Park to switch to secondary water in their landscape. Excess turf is the main “crop” irrigated in Utah yards. Gov Cox defines excess turf as “grass that’s only walked on when it’s mowed”.
Plentiful river water flowing through a dozen public spaces covering 155 acres along the Little Logan River will be placed into a pressurized pipe at First Dam instead. Less and less river water will reach the Great Salt Lake if booster achieve their goals.
The most natural parts of the Little Logan River would suffer as much as a 97% decrease in water flows during the ongoing drought, and hotter summers in our future could turn this trickle of water into a ribbon of toxic algae. Even if that worst case does not arise, only the smallest children in our families will be able to continue to tube in the river at the low flows projected during drought.
The damage to our Little Logan River, waste of OUR money and the over use of secondary water far outweigh a few positive aspects of the complex and far-reaching plan. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement perpetuates the serious mis-management of the people’s Little Logan River. It would be converted into a canal if the project proceeds as planned.
We have until June 22, 2026 to submit as many comments as you wish. See http://Tinyurl.com/RESTORELLR for links to the project plan (almost 3000 pages long). Find a LOT of information, suggests for comments, and contact information. It is simplest to email Ammon.boswell@usda.gov at least once a week.
Meet in person at CVUU or online through Zoom on Sunday at 10:00 AM.