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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 314 Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit : Diamond Fork Power System : final Environmental Impact Statement, page 314 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 314 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; consultation AND coordination continued continue A response at this time bonneville unit water to be delivered through diamond fork is committed f for or use in the municipal and industrial system and the irrigation and drainage system projected future municipal and industrial water needs are discussed in the municipal and industrial system final environmental statement p B 28 through B 36 that document also con tains bains a detailed discussion of the effects of pricing and other conservation measures on water use p H 6 through hll hil hii H ll 11 this discussion indicates that price increases would result in reductions in water use of only 10 percent or less over a longterm long term period reductions in per capita use f from rom present rates were taken into account in the water use projections presented in the municipal and industrial system FES no evidence has arisen in the intervening 5 years to indicate that these projections were significantly inaccurate in f fact act the salt lake county water conservancy district has petitioned for 50000 50000acre acre feet of ao bonneville nn eville unit water while the city of orem has petitioned for 7500 acre feet the metropolitan water district of salt lakecity lake city has indicated ca ted it will petition for 20000 acre feet in the near future recently local elected officials such as the mayor of west valley city have publicly ex pressed expressed an immediate need for the water mayors of several north utah county communities also recentlyindicated recently indicated that they will petition for bonneville unit water in the near future reference to the future cost of municipal and industrial andindustrial water ispurely impurely is purely speculative reclamation studies indicate that if bonneville unit water were available now it would cost about 220 per acre foot since most of the costs of facilities associated with mai m&i water are now in place the future cost of this water is not expected to increase significantly 166 comment in addition to lack of information on water demand the draft EIS is deficient in its justification of demand for diamond fork power in times when the pacific northwest finds itself in the greatest power related debacle WPPSS of all time when the capacity of the intermountain power project has been reduced 50 percent when conservation efforts are reducing power demands nationwide it is incumbent upon the bureau of reclamation to justify the need for power reference to westerns westeris We sterns power marketing survey is not sufficient in this regard in light of the recent history of power demand forecasts we must be much more thorough in demand estimation response see the response to comment no 111 167 comment finally it is very difficult to compare economic aspects of even the structural alternatives more detail would certainly be required f for or any thorough evaluation one point is certainly in error however the 314 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/2959 |
