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Title page 50 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville, Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah : Appendix A Review Comments, page 50
Coverage Electronic reproduction;
Source United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher Brigham Young University
Date 2005-10-14
Format 50 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; 6th ath paragraph aquatic plants will be altered and replaced by species adaptable to reservoirs and which eventually could lead to eu eutrophication troph ication mication of the reservoirs for fish life another statement should he be added the fish population in the reservoirs could change due to favorable conditions for nongame fish trout populations may decline chemical treatement treat ement controls may not be feasible because of culinary water uses in addition to the prohibitive costs involved in treating large bodies of water F SHORT AND AITD LONG LOMG TERM TIEFUTI environmental emvirommektal environeental USES page 224 there may not be long term benefits to reservoir fishing because of non game fish populations and other factors as mentioned previously mitigation and enhancement feature claims related to fish and wildlife are not long term in quality of fishing reservoirs provide opportunities for fishery but not quality over the life of the project pages 224 and 226 there is still no mention of quality comparisons between flat water reservoir and stream fishing in a natural setting page 226 2nd and paragraph ist sentence there may be a longterm long term transfer of fisheries as each reservoir or diversion structure is constructed however each individual stream altered would be reduced to dry stream sections immediately or else greatly reduced in quality the substitution of a reser voir for a live strean stream fishery cannot be compared as pre viously vinously stated above A quality stream fishery will not attract as nany many nany visit visitors dors lors as a reservoir but a quality fishing sircom stres strcom n is is a rare and snd s and nd valuable resource when compared to 10 L questionable brawda drawdown drawda n reservoirs in addition reser voirs doirs may create associated social problems concerning recreation sites pollution ills with respect to solid waste sewage and congested public areas G irreverstble irreversible AND aed trretrievpble CO u4it1 1tents OF RESOLMCES page 227 and 2nd paragraph c the elimination 0 of quality st streams reanis and associated socia ted habit habitat jat lat for resident and migratory fauna and aquatic and riparian riparicn ripari cn vegetation cannot be i minor losses in terms of state wide jr impact u&c4 U they are irretrievable resource losses reservoir reser vo r fishing 1 sha sh4 ang lng especially in excessive drawdown reservoirs cannot be rated a quality resource 50
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