Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 141 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 141 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 141 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; CHAPTER IV consultation AND coordination water is primarily used as an exchange for high quality provo river water stored in jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir the round valley alternative wallsburg Walls burg tunnel to the diamond fork system was discussed in the 1973 bonneville unit final environmental statement and the 1979 municipal and industrial system final environmental statement both of these statements are public documents As stated in these documents preliminary analysis indicated that this alternative would cost more than the diamond fork system plan and that there would be significant loss in potential power generation capability in part because the diamond fork flows would not be used for power generation WRITTEN COMMENT 36 A third big problem is that the bureau of reclamation continues to advocate off site mitigation this is disastrous in the west and will lead to extinctions extinct ions of species because no biological survey of the region has been instituted it may already have contributed to the extinction of the wasatch western spotted frog the area proposed for destruction by the bureau of reclamation the provo river and spanish fork river systems have an abundant diversity of aquatic species that do not occur in the strawberry river area likewise the strawberry river area has one species of leech that is not found in the bonneville basin the species survived in regions which were neither flood by pleistocene lake bonneville nor glaciated by the alpine glaciers see figure 1 for a list of amphibians and leeches mollusks and fish show similar results mitigation in strawberry drainage would affect 60 percent of the species found in the weber drainage 60 percent of the species found in the provo drainage and 50 percent of the species found in diamondspanish Diamond Spanish fork drainage with respect to amphibians and leeches improving of strawberry area for aquatic species and the destruction of the bonneville drainages will only lead to regional and even total extinction of animals the strawberry drainage lacks four out of five species of erpobdellidae leeches and both the ranidae amphibians unfortunately it has been easy for the bureau of reclamation to dismiss sound biological data as well as sound biological principles due to the lack of money for this mulitbillion mulit billion sic dollar project see the discussions in the record of decision for the final supplement to the final environmental impact statement for the municipal and industrial system of the bonneville unit of the central utah project approval of off site mitigation for the central utah project is biologically unsound and reckless since it puts too many eggs in one basket and does not recognize the diversity of habitats that occur in the bonneville basin A second aspect of this mitigation is that the wetlands formed from return flows from agricultural uses are wetlands in a very superficial sense no mollusks leeches or amphibians with the possible exception of the chorus frog will occupy these sites unless introduced byman there are springs in the bonneville basin below the 1552 meter elevation the high water elevation of 141 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/2794 |
