Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 242 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 242 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 242 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; 182 million at 8.625 8625 the annualized cost of 182 at the current discount rate is much larger than the annual direct benefits of 102 million SPDR 1987 p S 9 spanish fork supplemental irrigation for each of the alternatives the DS presented estimates that supplemental irrigation would provide annual benefits of approximately 17 1 1.7 17 7 .7 million or 9000 per family it appears to us that the costs of this portion of the project exceed the benefits the spanish fork area is scheduled to receive over 13.6 136 136 of the total bonneville unit water supply allocated to irrigation of 177200 acre feet 1987 draft supplement to the definite plan report p 101 As assuming assumine sumino sumine that total costs allocated to irrigation are 980 million the costs of irrigation water to the spanish fork area is 133 million or 166000 per family 14946 annualized at 8 78 the FS should address the cost effectiveness of this irrigation investment as well water quality reduction in the colorado river previous benefit cost analyses of the bonneville unit have failed to include the reduction in in water quality int he colorado river as a result of the diversion of high quality waters from the upper tributaries tributa ries of the duchesne river the costs of water quality reduction were estimated to be 10 million per year in the 1987 draft supplement to the definite plan report for the diamond fork system the preparers prepare rs of the report argued that the reduced water quality values should not be included as a cost of the diamond fork system because utah is entitled to divert the water by the terms of the colorado river basin compact of 1922 the compact does not require the federal government to subsidize diversions to the bonneville basin it merely allows utah to use colorado river water moreover the united states has treaty obligations with mexico to provide moderate water quality at the border we have had difficulty meeting our treaty obligation and are spending Z large amounts of money to achieve the water quality goals on such measures as the yuma desalinization plant the bureau is presently spending 50 million to rehabilitate fontenelle dam to provide flows to dilute high salinity flows from the big sandy eden project the bureau is required to evaluate plans from a national economic development NED viewpoint and cannot choose to ignore certain costs we also suspect that the annual costs of diverting 221300 acre feet from the colorado river basin are more than 10 million 242 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/2985 |
