Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 3 Newsletter 1984 Winter, page 3 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 3 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; generally speaking these lands are already developed with existing water distribution systems land improvements farm improvements and other preparations for agricultural production what is needed is a firm water supply to assure a variety of crops that can be successfully grown when full crop yields can be expected stabilizing of the agricultural and rural areas of utah in this manner would reduce migration of rural population to urban areas which already are considered by many to be overpopulated over populated state policy also provides for irrigation of new lands second in in priority to supplementing presently irrigated lands especially good quality lands intermingled with presently irrigated lands that could be served by extensions of existing water delivery systems or by the collection and use of return flows from higher irriation irritation irria tion I 1 it is true that a greater variety of crops can be grown in the imperial valley than in bonneville basin this is due to climate not of better soi sol soils solls Is or more efficient use of irrigation water As a comparison of crop yield per acre foot of water it takes one and one half 112 vz times as much water to produce a ton of alfalfa in imperial valley as it does to produce a ton of alfalfa along the wasatch front in the bonneville basin consumptive use to produce a ton of alfalfa in imperial valley is 79 .79 79 acre feet per ton compared to .51 51 acre feet per ton in bonneville basin in addition the bonneville unit water has poten tiai of use as return flow whereas water going to imperial valley can only be used once for irrigation water diverted to sevier river would be used as much as nine times epp 401 erw AS the bonneville unit fits admirably into the state water plan for irrigation agriculture with an efficient balance of supplemental and full service lands certain water right conflicts of long standing would be resolved and the economy of many areas stabilized bili zed it is estimated the increase in agricultural production from the bonneville unit water supply allotted to irrigation would be equivalent to the total present agricultural production of utah county which is the largest agricultural county of the state june sucker will effect economy AP A provo city official says if the US department of interior puts the june sucker on its endangered species list and designates the provo river as a critical habitat it could cost the local economy 50 billion to 80 billion leland gammette gambette Gam mette executive assistant to mayor james ferguson said city officials believe the fish should be protected but they oppose designating the provo river as a critical habitat the federal proposal calls for designating some portions of the lower provo and spanish fork rivers as critical habitat the central utah project has several proposed projects including diking of provo and goshen bays and opponents fear those projects would affect the fish gammette garnmette gemmette Garn Gam mette said the city is concerned farmers and utilities would lose all or part of their water if the river is protected he also said strict dredging regulations could cause water from the river and utah lake to rise threatening provo city airport agricultural land businesses and up to 500 homes utah lake is the only known habitat for june suckers and a conservation groups spokeswoman says thats reason enough to put the fish on the endangered species list lynn S ludlow central utah water conservancy district manager said proposed water projects would not affect the june sucker population he said the state already protects the fish and blamed other species of fish on the recent decline in sucker population ludlow said stocked exotic species such as walleye and white bass feed on the suckers contributing to the decline in population robert ruesnik rucsnik Rue snik a US fish and wildlife service fishery biologist said the june sucker population has declined slowly in the last 30 years mainly because some species of predatory game fish have been introduced to the lake CUWCD approved water rating the utah safe drinking water committee and the bureau of public water supplies recently applauded the central utah water conservancy district for its opera |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/1312 |
