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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 5 Newsletter 1985 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; CUWCD newsletter EDITORIAL develop water resources given conditions as they presently exist the only relief from the flooding of utah lake and the great salt lake is to dredge the jordan river and to pump water to the west desert there may be time for minor diking the alternative of letting nature take its course is a poor gamble even if precipitation returns to normal or subnormal the land and ground water aquifers throughout the entire watershed feeding the great salt lake is saturated we measure movement of water on the surface by the number of feet it will move in a second we express ground water movements in the number of inches per year it is going to take two or three years of reduced precipitation before we can reasonably expect the lakes to recede however there are lessons to be learned the state and local governments have adequate powers to prevent building in the flood plains of our lakes and rivers if we didnt have buildings and land improvements prove ments being threatened no one would even consider spending 110 million of public funds to protect the land in a very real sense money spent for flood control works to protect the flood plains is a transfer of value from the public till to adjacent private lands all rivers periodically reclaim the flood plains the land should be zoned to exclude building if we are going to build in the flood plains it is possible to build so that periodic flooding can be tolerated water is present 100 percent of the time on the foundations of the buildings in venice we build in areas which are earthquake prone but we build to withstand moderate quakes utah is the second driest and the third fastest growing state in the union there simply isnt any question but what we will need to develop all of our water supplies and even then we will have to be more efficient in the use of water A recent washington based think tank world watch institute sti tute study reported that falling water tables shrinking lakes and inland seas indicate a world wide overuse and mismanagement of water resources if current trends continue fresh water may in many areas become a constraint on economic activity and food production the long range solution to our current flood problem is not to pump the water to waste in the desert we need to build facilities to store control and use the water this same 110 million that we are now going to spend for flood protection would have accomplished a great deal more if it had been spent on facilities to put the water to consumptive use finally it should be remembered that water is not a finite resource like oil and gas but is a renewable resource it is necessary to almost every human endeavor this state can ill afford not to develop its water resources little dell which would store the flood water woudl loudl save millions of dollars that we now spend at periodic intervals to fight floods the dam would also supply water for salt lake city at elevations high enough without pumping to serve development on the high benches surely the construction of the dam makes more sense than placing sand bags and pumping water to the desert EDWARD W CLYDE bonneville supplemental Supple menta repayment contract the CUWCD entered into a contract dated december 28 1965 which provided for repayment of the bonneville unit of the central utah project the 1965 contract provided for repayment of costs for mai mal water by the CUWCD not to exceed 1404 1404 140.4 million the 1965 contract also provided for the use of the water supply act to defer the costs associated with developing future water supplies 1 in n august of 1981 the district requested by resolution that the water supply act be used to defer costs for future water supply and agreed to enter into another future agreement for repayment of those deferred costs they also agreed to contribute an additional 10 million to aid in the construction of jordan aqueduct this raised the mai m&l m&i ceiling to 1504 150.4 1504 million the ceiling was adequate to allow completion of the strawberry collection system and the jordan aqueduct system realizing that jordanelle Jor danelle dam construction could not be initiated until a supplemental repayment contract was negotiated the CUWCD and the bureau entered into negotiations in september 1984 A total of seven public negotiation meetings have been held the governing concept in negotiating the supplemental plem ental contract has been to supplement the 1965 repayment contract between the CUWCD and the bureau to increase the amount of repayment for mal purposes so that the bonneville unit can be completed it is assumed that all provisions of the 1965 contract which are not supplemented will continue to remain in effect repayment of the 164 16.4 164 million irrigation obligation is covered under the 1965 repayment contract with the CUWCD and will remain unchanged |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/1322 |
