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Title page 625 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 625
Coverage Electronic reproduction;
Source Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior
Publisher Brigham Young University
Date 2005-10-14
Format 625 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; to the jordan aqueduct along with other canals and pumping plants are described in the paragraphs below 1 1 jordan asu Aau aqueduct educt a east side aqueduct north from provo reservoir canal the 1964 194 definite plan report provided for a 69 inch diameter concrete pipeline with a capacity of 190 cfs cs from the provo reservoir canal at the point of the mountain along the east side of the salt lake valley to 5700 south and 2150 east near salt lake city the existing metropolitan water district system has lines crossing the valley to supply the west side accelerated urban development on the western side of the salt lake valley in the granger taylorsville Taylors ville and kearns areas since publication of the definite plan report has caused water demands in that area to exceed the capacity of cross pipelines for delivering the required flows the east side pipeline would be unable to meet peak summer demands on the west side of the valley without extensive enlargment enlargement of the existing cross valley lines enlarging the existing cross valley lines would cause a construction scar through the highly developed areas of salt lake county it would present the problems of removal of houses on the alinement alin ement disruption of all north south streets highways and railroads and the disruption of accompanying sewer and water lines b alternative water treatment plant A plant was considered near the mouth of provo canyon for supplying treated water to utah county and salt lake county A treatment plant at this location will likely be considered at a later date when utah county needs exceed local supplies to meet immediate demands for salt lake county however use of the provo reservoir canal as a conveyance for some 20 miles would save an estimated 20 million by eliminating the need for a pipeline parallel to the canal c east side aqueduct paralleling salt lake aqueduct studies were prepared for paralleling the existing salt lake aqueduct throughout its length with 625
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