Rock Canyon History, Provo, UT - Utah Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

The text on the sign reads:

"Rock Canyon History

Rock Canyon has provided timber, farmland, water and minerals for Utah Valley residents. Water has been the most enduring and troubling resource. Overgrazing by livestock until the early 1950s decimated fragile plant communities above Rock Canyon, limiting water sheds ability to absorb snow or rain. As a result, flooding repeatedly devastated the area. This prompted Civilian Construction Corps men to build a large debris basin at the mouth of the canyon in 1934. It came just in time to help hold the largest flood in the canyons history in July of 1936. Tons of mud, boulders, and trees thundered out into the valley. Some of it over-ran the debris basin, and covered nearby farms with several feet of mud. Provo citizens lobbied the U.S. Congress in the 1930's to include the canyon in the Uinta National Forest, and they teamed up to rehabilitate its watershed. In 1957-61 livestock grazing was nearly eliminated, and 412 acres of camour trenches were cut by bulldozers on the most muddied slopes on the Cascade Mountain. within a few years the trenches were covered with grass and they continue to hold water and discharge it at a slower pace. Water is now directed into pipes halfway up the canyon, and provides about 5% of Provo's culinary water."

Marker Name: Rock Canyon History Marker Type: City County: Utah City: Provo Group Responsible for Placement: Parks and Recreation Dept of the City of Provo Date Dedicated: Unknown Marker Number: Unknown Web link(s) for additional information: http://parkfinder.provo.org/http://parkfinder.provo.org/ Addtional Information: Not listed

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