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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2 Provo River Project : Utah, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, and Wasatch Counties, page 2 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 2 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; provo river project provo river drainage basin is horseshoe shaped con crete lined 925 9.25 feet in diameter and 6 miles long the weber provo diversion dam and canal was originally a part of the weber river project it has been enlarged to supply water from the weber river to the deer creek reservoir on the provo river the dam is a co concrete perete ogee overflow weir with embankment wings it has a hydraulic height heiat haiat of 19 feet and is 1 mile east of oakley utah the canal has a capacity of 1000 cubic feet per second and a length of 9 miles consisting of unlined earth lined and concrete lined sections aqueduct division the principal feature of this division is the salt lake aqueduct a 69 inch ineh dineh diameter concrete pipeline 41.7 417 417 miles long with a capacity of 150 cubic feet per second through this pipeline flows the domestic water supply for salt lake city two tunnels are a part of the aqueduct the concrete lined 78 inch diameter horseshoe shaped alpine draper tunnel 15000 feet long and the olmsted tunnel identical in cross section with the alpine draper tunnel but 3614 feet long the concrete terminal reservoir with a capacity of 40 million gallons completes the system deer creek division deer creek division structures include murdock diversion dam a concrete ogee weir type structure 22 feet high provo reservoir canal with a diversion capacity of 550 cubic feet per second and a total length of 23 miles consisting of unlined and concrete lined sections the 65 cubic cubie cuble foot per second capacity jordan narrows pumping plant and the south lateral with a capacity of 40 cubic feet per second and a length of about 4 miles deer creek powerplant Power plant the power powerplant powerplanfc plant piant was constructed on the substructure provided during the construction of deer creek dam has two 2475 kilowatt generators and was placed in operation in 1958 development early history the first written report concerning this territory was made by john 6 fremont in the account of his expedition of 1843 general william H ashley led a party of fur traders into the west from st louisin louis louls in the spring of 1822 and in 1825 established a trading post known as fort ashley on utah lake the provo river and the city of provo are said to have been named after a trapper named provost who was operating in the country about utah lake as early as 1820 in march 1849 a group went southward from salt lake with the intention of establishing a colony on the provo river the settlement started at a place called old fort field is now within the city limits of provo A fort was built and crops planted somewhat over 200 acres being plowed the first year for wheat rye and corn in august 1850 settlements were made at american fork lehi and pleasant grove in 1856 brigham young outlined a plan for the use of provo river water much the same as the one followed 80 years later by the bureau of reclamation investigations utah lake supplied irrigation water for some areas in the salt lake valley but during the drought years 1931 to 1935 storage in utah lake fell from 850000 acre feet to 20000 acre feet it became apparent that construction of the provo river project was essential to provide an adequate water supply the project plan resulted from extensive investigations conducted at various times after 1922 by the bureau of reclamation in cooperation with the water storage commission of utah the desperate water shortage experienced by saltlake salt sait lake lahe city in the 1930s and the consequent request to the US government for assistance in obtaining a dependable water supply for salt lake valley gave rise to a concerted effort seeking approval of the tlle tile provo river project the city of provo and five other communities muni ties in utah county as well as salt lake city all needing additional domestic water supplies joined with the irrigation interests to sponsor the project the provo river water users association agreed to repay the united states stati statt s for the cost of the project in accordance with reclamation law authorization construction of the project was initiated under the provisions of the tlle tile national industrial recovery act of june 16 1933 and approved by the president on november 16 1935 under the terms of subsection B of section 4 of the act of december 5 51924 1924 43 st stat at 701 the salt lake aqueduct was approved by the president on october 241938 deer creek powerplant Power plant was found feasible and authorized by the secretary of the interior on august 20 1951 under the reclamation project act of 1939 construction construction of the project began in may 1938 the first water becoming available in 1941 upon the completion of deer creek dam construction of some features of the project was seve severely seveiely iely lely hampered by wartime scarcities scar cities of manpower materials and funds work on the duchesne tunnel unit had to be stopped in 1942 although construction continued on a smallscale small smail scale seale on the canal system and salt lake aqueduct in 1947 full scale construction was resumed construction of features of the aqueduct division was started in 1939 and completed in 1951 the deer creek powerplant Power plant was completed in 1958 operating agency deer creek dam and reservoir are operated and maintained by the bureau of reclamation other features of the deer creek division are operated and maintained by the provo river water users associa assoria |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/176 |
