Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 10 Central Utah Project [CUP Booklet 3], page 10 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 10 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; UINTAH BASIN WATER development early planning of the central utah project to develop water in the uinta basin included the uintah unit and the upalco unit the uintah unit was to develop flows of the uinta and whiterocks rivers for the irrigation of both indian and non indian land municipal and industrial use recreation and fish and wildlife purposes and flood control the upalco unit was to develop flows of the lake fork and yellowstone rivers for the irrigation of non indian and indian land municipal and industrial water use recreation fish and wildlife purposes and flood control the uinta dam and reservoir on the uinta river was planned to have a capacity of 47000 acre feet the whiterocks river and reservoir on the whiterocks river was planned to have a capacity of 32000 acre feet and the taskeech Tas keech dam and reservoir on the lake fork river was p planned lanned to have a capacity of 78500 acre feet the three reservoirs reservoirs provided supplemental plem ental irrigation to 49200 acres of indian lands 52700 acres of non indian lands and full service to 7800 acres of indian lands with carry over storage during periods of drought As originally planned these projects had positive benefit cost ratios however increased costs due to inflation over the past 20 years have caused them to become marginally cost effective evaluation of several smaller reservoir sites indicate that seasonal supplemental irrigation water can be provided at a substantial cost savings while the smaller reservoirs will not provide carry over storage for more than one year supplemental irrigation water available after july is of great benefit and often makes the difference between a successful crop or failure using existing diversions and canals and or by exchange agreements water stored in pigeon water reservoir clay basin reservoir and mcguire draw reservoir would provide 23000 acre feet of water to be used as supplemental irrigation water on 42610 acres of land served by the lake fork river yellowstone rivers water stored in the uinta reservoir and whiterocks reservoir would provide 70000 acre feet of water to be used as supplemental irrigation water on 59312 acres of land served by the uinta and whiterocks rivers mat aft maw 3 fin FIT n W 1 r uinta dam and reservoir uinta dam and reservoir would provide water for supplemental service irrigation of lands in the uinta river area of the uinta basin water stored would be runoff from uinta river the reservoir would have 30000 acre feet of active or joint use capacity the uinta damsite adamsite on uinta river lies in duchesne county approximately 20 miles north of roosevelt utah the damsite adamsite is accessible from roosevelt over utah highway 121 ill ili 12 1 all vla att gla 0 AN M |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/28 |
