Record Details
page 672
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 672 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 672 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 672 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 bureau of reclamation is also involved in the water development and conservation programs salinity control studies on the colorado river and water quality improvement programs are now underway precipitation management and weather modification is an ever increasing segment of the reclamation program total water management involving the inflow outflow lort import and export of water groundwater surface water and all other water uses or reuses within a system is being studied and implemented A geothermal development program is being implemented and although considered to be a department of interior program with several federal agencies involved such as USGS BLM and OSW the bureau of reclamation has responsibility for determining the he feasibility of a system for producing and delivering desalted salted de geothermal water hydropower Hydro power flood control fish and wildlife protection and enhancement recreation and improvement of environmental quality of life are all still vital aspects of reclamation multipurpose multi purpose projects issue 19 the draft environmental statement failed to treat reservoir fisheries and stream fisheries as separate entities issue raised by utah state department of natural resources utah environmental center forest service national wildlife federation utah audubon society and several individuals a reservoir and stream fishing are separate facets of the sport of angling and as such have unique values in evaluating the effects of the proposed bonneville unit upon the fishery resource streams and reservoirs cannot be treated equally b the bonneville unit would create an imbalance in the state of utahs fishery resource in favor of reservoir fishing response a it tt is recognized that reservoir fisheries and stream fisheries are separate entities and the final environmental statement has been modified L 0 to b o trea treat hem them U as such under the he discussions of cumulative effects of the unit upon fish esthetics and recreation in section C stream and reservoir iacts impacts pacts have been treated separately b the bureau budeau of reclamation acknowledges that construction and operation of the he bonneville unit would alter the existing balance between reservoir fishing and stream fishing Z this sa s4 situation as determined by the bureau of sport fisheries and wild elid wildlife tife life tire is shown in section ca c5 C 672 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5853 |
