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 [Public Law (PL) 83-566], the Logan River Watershed Plan in Cache County, Utah. 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]

The presentation will be offered again this Thursday, March 4, with the opportunity to ask questions:
NRCS will hold an online public scoping meeting as part of the Watershed Plan Environmental Assessment (Plan-EA) to provide information about the project and to collect public comments.* The public is invited to attend the scoping meeting to learn more, ask questions and submit written comments. A brief presentation will be provided prior to a question and answer session
http://bit.ly/LoganRiverWatershed

Riverfront Landowner Scoping Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. MST
Online via Zoom: Visit www.zoom.us/join and enter Meeting ID: 968 5723 1290

Written comments can be submitted during the public scoping period starting January 14, 2021 and ending on March 16, 2021. All questions and comments should be directed to:

Logan River Watershed Plan
Attn: The Langdon Group
466 N. 900 W.
Kaysville, UT 84037
Phone: 435-213-2872
Email: loganriver@utwatershed.com

Written comments must be postmarked by March 16, 2021.

Learn More:

Water Master Plan, Cache Water District, https://www.cachewaterdistrict.com/water-master-plan

Crockett Avenue Pressurized Irrigation Project, Cache Water District, https://www.cachewaterdistrict.com/projects

The result of the conducted alternative analysis and evaluation recommended that constructing a complete PI system throughout the Crockett service area.[CWD]

^[CWD]Crockett Avenue Pressurized Irrigation Project, Cache Water District, https://crockettpi.com/

^[NRCS] Logan River Watershed (Sponsor = Cache Water District), NRCS, https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ut/programs/planning/wpfp/?cid=nrcseprd1723235

Public Comments:

Wurtsbaugh, Wayne, Comments for Bridgerland Audubon Society, February 14, 2021, https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/our-projects/advocacy/logan-river-watershed-plan/logan-river-watershed-plan-comments/

Howe, Frank P., Comments for The Logan River Task Force, February 14, 2021, https://bridgerlandaudubon.org/our-projects/advocacy/logan-river-watershed-plan/logan-river-task-force-comments/

Background:

Webb, Kat, Cache Water District, Logan, N. Logan and Hyde Park participating in evaluation on Logan River watershed, The Herald Journal, February 5, 2021, https://www.hjnews.com/news/government/cache-water-district-logan-n-logan-and-hyde-park-participating-in-evaluation-on-logan-river/article_34226010-e807-53a6-8bdd-0b7b8097c166.html

Cache Water Restoration Project returns flows to Cache Valley in time for summer, https://www.cachecounty.org/assets/department/water/restoration/UCD-June%20Article.pdf

Duncan, Phillip, Pali, Zackary, Crockett Diversion Rehabilitation Project, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Utah State University, https://engineering.usu.edu/cee/students/senior-projects/fall2018-spring2019/crockett-diversion-rehabilitation-senior-project

Cracks in the wall » Shareholders who get water from the Logan Northern Canal trace their rights to an 1860 legal document that gives the canal’s owners a right to 23 percent of the available flow from the Logan River, according to USU records. Because it has long been a private operation, communities refused to help maintain the canal until the 1990s, when Harris and other company officials persuaded government leaders city storm runoff was affecting the canal.[SLTRIB]

^[SLTRIB]LaPlante, Matthew D. and Carlisle, Nate, Deadly mudslide: Logan failed to act on canal warnings, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 14, 2009, https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=&itype=ngpsid

Logan River Task Force, https://uwrl.usu.edu/lro/logan-river-task-force