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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 5 Newsletter 1984 Spring, page 5 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 5 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; supplemental in the amount of 226 thousand reclamation will follow the water project financing and cost sharing policy recently announced by the president project beneficiaries will bear a part of the cost of financing new project development but their share will be worked out on a project by project basis rather than following a rigid formula safety problems at reclamation dams will be corrected as expeditiously as possible with the cost borne by the federal government if additional economic benefits result from this work appropriate cost sharing arrangements will be made CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT bonneville unit utah fiscal year 1984 90375000 fiscal year 1985 104780000 construction will be completed on aggregate processing for upper stillwater dam and stillwater still water tunnel Still stillwater stillwat stillway wat er tunnel completion and the first part of taylor canal drains work will continue on upper stillwater dam stage 2 north fork siphon jordan aqueduct section 4 and alpine section 3 and exploratory shaft for fifth water power plant contracts will be awarded for resurfacing of currant creek road and slide repairs hades creek stream inlet automatic and remote controls for collection system breaching of strawberry dam west side road surfacing clearing strawberry reservoir farm creek canal rehabilitation and duchesne feeder canal rehabilitation land and rights acquisition will proceed on jordanelle Jor danelle dam and reservoir CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT jensen unit utah fiscal year 1984 1660000 fiscal year 19852418000 construction will be completed on tyzack aqueduct reach 2 C contracts on tracts will be awarded for f fencing red fleet reservoir and supervisory controls for tyzack aqueduct and pumping plant land will be acquired for tyzack aqueduct reach 3 CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT uintah unit preconstruction activity utah fiscal year 1984 550000 fiscal year 1985 1985300000 300000 the program provides for completion of preconstruction activities including preparation of the environmental statement designs and estimates and the definite plan report CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT upalco unit utah fiscal year 1984 1720000 fiscal year 1985 3215000 land will be acquired for taskeech Tas keech dam and reservoir taskeech Tas keech service canal and canal rehabilitation contracts will be awarded for moon lake road relocation and the field laboratory central utah project and great salt lake carl carpenter PE CUWCD water brought into the wasatch front area from the central utah project will not cause the great salt lake to rise the facts are that it will have an unmeasurable effect the average annual amount of water imported from strawberry reservoir will be 136600 acre feet of this total 36000 acre feet 26 does not stay in the utah lake jordan river basin but flows south into the sevier river basin ofthe ofjthe odthe remaining amount approximately 81.900 81900 acre feet 60 of the total imported will be consumed by irrigation and municipal use in south utah county the remaining 18700 acre feet 14 reaches utah lake as return flow from the imported water and a small amount delivered to utah lake to cover irrigation shortages about half of the water will evaporate in utah lake thus the amount reaching great salt lake would cause an im perceptable perceptible percept able change at the current 1984 lake level during wet cycles such as experienced in 198283 1982 83 very little if any water would be imported from strawberry reservoir it would be stored for later use in dry cycles this concept is at the very heart of the purpose and scope of the central utah project it is to store water surpluses for later use in dry cycles there are also parts of the central utah project which will control water originating within the utah lake jordan river basin to provide greater control of utah lake and consequently great salt lake these include providing additional storage on the provo river at the jordanelle Jor danelle site storage on the spanish fork tributary of diamond fork at monks hollow diking shallow portions of utah lake and lampton reservoir on the jordan river jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir will have a storage capacity of twice that of deer creek reservoir the storage concept is that in wet cycles it will withhold surplus flows to utah lake for later releases in dry periods this operation will result in less water moving through utah lake to the jordan river and consequently the great salt lake if jordanelle Jor danelle had been in place in 1983 it would have kept the level of utah lake lower by 6 to 12 inches likewise the reservoir at monks hollow on diamond fork will be able to withhold some surplus flows in wet periods which would otherwise |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/1298 |
