Water Plan for Skagit Valley, Wash. Towns.
A report has been made to the Anacortes, Wash., chamber of commerce, by Engineer G. V. Elder that the project to bring water from the South Fork of the Noosack River to supply Anacortes and towns in the Skagit Valley is feasible. Mr. Elder, in his report, says that a dam 50 feet high in a gorge of the Nookstack would be necessary. A tunnel of between 2,000 and 3,000 feet through the divide between Reading and Elsie creeks would also be necessary, but it is believed that this tunnel would be largely through a clay soil. The Skagit Valley end of the tunnel would be 742 feet above sea level and will give a gravity water system to all the towns of the valley
A report has been made to the Anacortes, Wash., chamber of commerce, by Engineer G. V. Elder that the project to bring water from the South Fork of the Noosack River to supply Anacortes and towns in the Skagit Valley is feasible. Mr. Elder, in his report, says that a dam 50 feet high in a gorge of the Nookstack would be necessary. A tunnel of between 2,000 and 3,000 feet through the divide between Reading and Elsie creeks would also be necessary, but it is believed that this tunnel would be largely through a clay soil. The Skagit Valley end of the tunnel would be 742 feet above sea level and will give a gravity water system to all the towns of the valley
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