Record Details
page I-98
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page I-98 Final environmental statement : authorized Upalco Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page I-98 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | I-98 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; andor reduce stream pollution from agricultural and grazing sources the net effect of the increase in cattle is not expected to have a significant impact on nutrient or coliform levels in local streams 6 comment salinity would increase this statement probably assumes more irrigation at same onfarm nonfarm efficiency if efficiency were increased TDS should decrease response the salt concentration increases would occur as a result of the depletion of 11900 acre feet not because of salt loading 7 comment page C 35 says the projects impact on the warm water fishery in the duchesne river below the lake fork river confluence would be beneficial because the historical flows in late summer would increase about 550 percent thus habitat for warm water fishery would be significantly increased yet on page B 30 this river is presently shown as low quality due to return flows stream depletion of 13000 acre feet annually in this region should significantly increase the salinity of the river and adversely impact the fisheries whether based on historical flows or future modified base response historically low flows in this section on the river have occurred during the late summer irrigation period table C 5 duchesne river at myton the increase in flows during this period resulting from the project would enhance the warm water fishery figure bil bli B ll 11 page B 30 in your comment is a stream system water quality map and has only an indirect relationship to the fishery quality the project caused salinity increase in this section of the river would be about 4.9 49 49 percent or 53 mgliter moliter mg liter table C 7 as revised in the FES resulting from streamflow stream flow depletion the salinity increase would be insignificant to the warm water fishery 8 comment page C 80 salinity impacts are based on 230000 per mgl mg1 mgt at imperial dam however the consortium of water resource centers in the states of arizona california colorado and utah prepared a recent report salinity management options for the colorado river damage estimates and control program impacts this report lists economic impacts in 1976 dollars as 198 1 98 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/4089 |
