Record Details
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 228 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 228 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 228 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; 3 intermountain water alliance mitigation in strawberry drainage would affect 60 of the species found in the weber drainage 60 of the species found in the provo drainage and 50 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 ofanimals animals the strawberry drainage lackes 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 df money for this mulitbillion mulit billion 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 doe s not recognize the diversity of habitats that occur in the bonneville basin A second aspect of this mitigationis 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 by man there are springs in the bonneville basin below the 1552 meter elevation the high water elevation of the pleistocene lake that do not contain leeches mollusks or amphibians after 10000 years of existence and these springs are very numerous thus forming wetlands is not the same as preservingwetlands preserving wetlands A third aspect of this mitigation is that each spring has its own unique fauna in arid regions manipulations of springs have destroyed portions 0 this fauna as the western spotted frog in the wasatch the draft statement does not adequately describe just what wetlands and riparian zones will be destroyed or what springs will be destroyed by widening the roads thus there is no way of assessing the information 4 the fourth major problem is that water allocation from agriculture to municipal and industrial use has drastically changed during the rewriting of the iamond diamond lamond D fork fark system presently it seems that the major portion of the water is now being allocated for municipal and industrial use from the strawberry collection and the diamond fork transbasin trans basin diversion how does this affect the repayment ceiling which the voters approved see chapter IV for all your approval it now seems that most of the cost of these two components will now have to be included within these ceilings please state the present acre feet breakdown for each component MI collector system diamond fork system iad i&d system for mai m&i use under its obligatory payback dayback scheme and the cost these acre feet represent under your latest revised scheme thus we ask 1 where is your conservationplan conservation plan 2how chow can you take high quality water and dump it into a eutropic saline lake 3 does the bureau have any concern for aquatic fauna and any appreciation for its habitats and 4 just what is the breakdown of the cost of the project to mai m&i users 228 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/3169 |
