Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page ix Central Utah Project six units, page ix |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | ix 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; the bonneville unit now under const construction ruction is the largest and most complex of the authorized unitsof unitson units of the central utah project greater utilization of bonneville fe basin water made possible by the unit plan and a trans basin diversion of water will serve the needs of a growing population in the bonneville basin this complex unit includes ten new reservoirs and the en enlargement largement largemont lan lar gement of two existing 74 reservoirs more than 140 miles of aqueducts tunnels and canal three powerplants power plants nine al VA pumping plants and 200 miles of pipe drains V AW starvation reservoir constructed on strawberry river three miles mon WON above duchesne has a capacity from 283000 to 1 100000 acre of 167000 acre feet it stores f eet beet strawberry reservoir wi I 1 I 1 be high flows of the duchesne and a long iong longterm term storage reservoir strawberry rivers storage water is used both for late season irrigation the new 65 mile long pressurized of about 26000 acres of land syar tunnel will divert storage along the duchesne river and to water from strawberry re reservoir through the wasatch divide replace water presently used in to the bonneville basin approximately that area which will be diverted 197000 acre acne f feet eet beet of to the bonneville basin acre foot capacity H hayes ayes reservoir will be released water annual annually ay 1y on diamond fork 3 the crossing the south flank of the through the tunnel including enlarged mona reservoir or 4 61000 feet of acre present yield uinta mountains the strawberry from the existing strawberry the existing sevier bridge reservoir about 37 miles aqueduct long reservoir water released from these collect flows from rock will reservoirswill reservoir swill irrigateproject irrigate project land creek and seven other streams water descending about 2 2000 ooo 000 or will be used for municipal and tributary of the duchesne river feet to the bonneville basin floor industrial purposes wasatch aqueduct the tho upper stillwater and currant current will flow through the syar sixth mona nephi canal and creek reservoirs will serve servo as water and dyne powerplants power plants of nephi sevier canal will convey equalizing reservoirs along the tho the diamond fork powersystem Power System irrigation water from the power aqueduct water will flow by gravity the plants wi will I 1 I 1 have a total generating plants and reservoirs to lands in through the aqueduct to the capacity of about 133000 utah and juab counties and the enlarged strawberry reservoir kilowatts sevier river basin municipal and the completed soldier creek industrial water released from dam dom about 7 miles downstream during the nonirrigation season strawberry reservoirwill reservoir will be used from the strawberry dam dom has about 97000 acre feet of water in south utah and juab counties increased the tho potential capacity will bo be released to turn the pow of strawberry reservoir 4 times er plant turbines these waters will be stored in four reservoirs 1 utah lake 2 the 51500 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/2285 |
