Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 4 Municipal and industrial system, page 4 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 4 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; UPPER PROVO RIVER reservoirs the upper provo river reservoirs consist of 15 lakes clustered together within a 4 mile radius at the headwaters of the provo river in the uinta mountains about 55 miles east of salt lake city most of these lakes lie approximately within a 2 hour drive from any city along the wasatch front jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir dam and power plant would be located on the river roughly 25 miles west of these lakes about 6 miles north of heber city from 1914 to 1935 private irrigation companies constructed dams on these natural lakes converting them to reservoirs and enlarging their storage capacities this has resulted in drastic fluctuations in water levels of the reservoirs due to irrigation drawdowns draw downs and restricted their fishery recreation and esthetic potential thirteen of the 15 reservoirs would be stabilized at surface levels to enhance their recreation and fishery value by transferring their irrigation storage to jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir the remaining two reservoirs trial and wall lakes would continue to fluctuate to provide irrigation water to the francis lands which are located at an elevation too high to permit service from jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir the 15 lakes upper provo river reservoirs big elk long teapot crystal lost trial duck marjorie wall wal wail waii wai I 1 fire pot washington island star weir WM k 07 711 aw I 1 A 40 jordanelle JOR DANELLE DAM AND RESERVOIR Jordan jordnnollo jordanollo ollo dam and reservoir would bo be the koy key feature of tho the municipal and industrial system after studying soveral alternatives a site 6 miles north of hobor heber hebor city on the provo rivor river divor was selected horo water descends through natural rock formations that would servo serve sorvo as massive abutments and foundation for tho the 1412million 1412 14 million cubic foot earthen jordanollo Jordan ollo dam tho the dam would measure 296 foot high and havo have a crest crost length of about 2800 feet foot with a crost crest width of 45 foot to accommodate US highway 189 tho the dam would hold 320000 acre foot of water woter wator in the tho Jor jordanello jordanollo Jordan danello ollo 0110 reservoir formed in tho valloy valley behind tho the dam continued ttfattlbali ai |
| Identifier | NONE http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/2406 |
