Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 222 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville, Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah : Appendix A Review Comments, page 222 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 222 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; 3 phreatophyte control con trol especially a around utah lake could result in savings of 500 56400 goo acre feet pe per r year according to the hydrologic hvdrologic hydroloeic In inventory vento of f the ajah trah utah tjah lake lako laro lare draina dtaina drainage ZL area published by t the utah division ol 01 of water resource resources and the utah uth water research laboratory in 1969 phercatophyte phereatophyte control costs are very low compared to bonneville unit costso costs costlo 4full full fuli development of wasatch front streams could yield 56000 acre feet per year of additional water supply the authorized little dell project poject goject alone would develop 36000 acre feet of municipal water supply1 supply 1 5 5. salt lake city has an additional 47200 117200 acre feet per year of water available from deer creek reservoir tn in the years 1964 1968 they have used only ak 2k 240 of their allotment in deer creek leaving an additional anadditional unadditional 57200 47200 117200 acre feet available for municipal and industrial use 6 6. recycling of water in the wasatch front or the use of 2 stage systems for municipal and industrial uses have not been explored either type of system is feasible and available and would be less expensive than bonneville bon Don neville unit water 7 ch ansing changing patterns of consumption by education and economic incentives water is too inexpensive in the wasatch front metropolitan abreast areast areas and that thai thab encourages enczur encour ages iges waste salt lake city residents use more water per capita capil capit a than them khan khon residents of tu tucson son arizona aa izone izona although the climate of tucson is drier and hotter the state of nevada in its 1971 report entitled water supply j for or the future in southern nevada nevc bevc ji has recommended t that reduct ion of per capita consumption b by in reas reasnc reasno aig yig rates and edu cational rational cat ional campaigns would avert a wat vat vater varer warec water e 1 shortage through the year 2020 the wasatch front could couitl couill profil profit from the same approach for example salt leke lake beke ci C tr ty t y r uses ues mues aes 56 56000 000 ooo acre feet per year for watering lawns and karee kayde ga ern efu ns nao n3o that is more than 50 of the water which would be delivered by the bonneville unit for municipaland munici paland industrial purposes if residents of tucson arizona and las vegas nevada can change their habits and learn to adapt to a desert climate so cail can caal residents of salt lake city 8 8. population redistribution to the areas 0 of f the state where there is abundant water is a feasible alternative nevada is i s considering such a plan which would eliminate the need to import water at great economic and environmental costs costso costlo 9 9. population limitations within water waterdeficient deficient areas could be imposed boulder colorado has recently voted uo 10 place a maximum on the population of the city nevada is exploring similar approaches for the las vegas area lack of additional water supplies does place an inherent limit on growth and could be so used rather than attempting to promote growth by water importation after reviewing the draft environmental statement it is quite obvious that the bureau of reclamation has failed to comply with the national environmental policy act and the guidelines of the council on environmental quality they have not adequately de scribed ascribed the en environmental irbnmental impacts the tlle tile implications for popula tion distribution or concentration the effects upon land and water use and the changes in recreational patterns A more mone mo re 6 222 229 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/6240 |
