Utah State University

Title

A History and Economic Analysis of the Hyrum Reclamation Project

Author

Douglas Eldon Brinley, Utah State University

Date of Award:

1966

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department name when degree awarded

Economics

Advisor/Chair:

Leonard J. Arrington

Abstract

The Hyrum Project is located in northern Utah near the Cache County seat of Logan, and includes lands bordering the towns of Hyrum, Wellsville, and Mendon, Utah. The primary features of the project include a dam and reservoir on the Little Bear River, and three canals that total slightly more than 20 miles in length. Its principal purpose is to provide supplemental irrigation water to 6,800 acres of fertile land.

This project is the result of several investigations relative to the improvement of water utilization in Cache County. A report prepared in 1922 entitled, "Report on the Utilization of the Land and Water Resources of Cache Valley, Utah," stimulated interest and concern over the insufficient water supply. Beginning with this report, and until the final approval of the project in 1933, various county, state, and federal agencies worked together to devise a feasible method of increasing the supply of irrigation water in Cache Valley.

Comments

This work made publicly available electronically on March 6, 2013.

Recommended Citation

Brinley, Douglas Eldon, "A History and Economic Analysis of the Hyrum Reclamation Project" (1966). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1462.
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1462