Letters To The Editor, Meeker, Opinion

Letter: Water storage issues have been studied

According to last week’s Herald Times, the Yellow Jacket Water Conservation District members met with district taxpayers to discuss water storage for uses such as oil shale development.
Water storage above ground has created the following issues:
A) High cost of reservoir projects.
B) Filling of reservoir with sediment.
C) Loss of water through evaporation (5 feet per year) and reservoir leakage.
D) Greatly diminished flow to the White River.
Storage below ground already takes…