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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 4-24 Final environmental impact statement on the Wasatch County Water Efficiency Project and Daniel Replacement Project, page 4-24 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 4-24 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; the EPA and COE and on august 16 1996 with representatives of the division of wildlife resources and FWS these specialists concurred that these areas have low wetland functions and values this private property is used for livestock grazing and hay production flood irrigation and up gradient drainage supports wetland vegetation vegetation is limited to a monoculture of herbaceous species and soils are sands and gravels there is very little habitat provided for wildlife map A 4 in pocket at back of EIS shows the extent of these impacts and explains why other wetlands would not likely be impacted by the groundwater elevation drawdown based on preliminary information received from the COE the predicted loss of 20.7 207 acres of heber valley wetlands from groundwater elevation drawdown would not be regulated under section 404 of the clean water act because the drawdown is related to irrigation practices which do not require a 404 permit the predicted loss of these low function and value wet meadows would be a significant impact and would not be mitigated the potential wetland impacts frem from groundwater elevation drawdown would net not noe nee be regulated under section 404 of ef the glean clean water act because the drawdown is related to te iff lff iga4ien irrigation practices ger for gof which a 404 permit is net not nee required page W 374 3 74 right column paragraph 4 change to read 3463.6 34636 34636 impact summary about 20.7 207 acres of wetlands in heber valley would be indirectly converted to upland by lower groundwater elevations under the proposed action the predicted loss of these low function and value wetlands would be a significant impact about 2.1 21 21 acres of riparian woodland would be converted to upland in the upper strawberry river basin from eliminating flows in existing canals other wetlands would be enhanced in the upper strawberry river basin table 327 3 27 summarizes adverse and beneficial wetland impacts by wetland type and acreage page W 378 3 78 top portion of page table 328 3 28 section 3464.5 34645 34645 change to read table 3 328 3.28 328 338 29 summary of ef adverse and beneficial wetland impacts under the daniel replacement project with pipeline alternative impact type temporary direct advef adverse advel se impacts along pipeline corridor r festered restored estef ester edunder under sorg SOPs sors indi indirect feet adverse impacts heber valley and upper strawberry river basin wetlands created in upper iet ier stfawbe strawberry rivef river rivea basin enhanced wetland aki aej atj 1 .1 AM d quality and functions kipper upper tipper stfawbefr strawberry y river basin net change in wetland aer aeres acres es heber valley and upper str strawberry aw beffy baffy river basin arf wrf 44 TT U I 1 meadow ttmci3 aer f att atw ea e4 0 03 ac 1c Q J U U 368 la 13 l3 i 368 36.8 uu 0 emergent falarsh iviiirsu alarsh I 1 r ri ulfo ftfeo ulfj Ul fJ 04 QA 04 34 034 0444 444 Ripa riparian flaff riaff flann weedia woodland fad ffd ie riar ri rmer rifr fr faefes4 taunja tiunja 024 ST e 1& 0 4 sra sr4 2 shrub lju1 U U wetland faeges faefes ftcrcsy 0 n j n n it 014 qa aa ir 34 334 3 934 362 4 4. i 362 36.2 j u n T total tafoi tnfoi xsjinr otai otal oefer oefe0 ticrcsy 64 6 4 24 4 64 6 4 4704 470.4 704 4704 ama 4 ma u t 743 943 nete note rs fvfs U I 1 V the tho the 6.9 69 69 gg aer aeres acres es of ef dif dir dlf direct eet beet adverse impacts that wohld would bo be fester festered restored ed under the SOPs SON sors som are arc afe ex eluded excluded frem from the calculation to te fiar figure fipr e nog not net neg change in wetland aeres acres 424 4 24 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/3463 |
