Record Details
page 507
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 507 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 507 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 507 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 environmental and social im impacts facts oacts of construct constructina constructing ina lna inq dams and reservoirs in the canyons of eastern salt lake county would be significant the recent move by citizen ci dizen groups anid and arid conservationist groups to save our canyons was a contributing factor in salt lake citys cites unsuccessful attempt to obtain the bid to the 19t6 winter olympics activities in the wasatch front canyons are being restricted considerably A general degradation of the esthetics in the canyon would result from the construction of any dams and reservoirs the resulting mudflats mud flats in the reservoirs caused by the drawdown would be visib visia visible le from many places within the canyons removal of borrow mat nat material erial for construction purposes would alter the terrain arid and ana ala arld in many instances leave scars which voula decrease the beauty of the area 3 weather modification a description of the th e alternative weather modification could be considered as an alternative source of municipal and industrial water for salt lake and utah counties instead of bonneville unit imports from the uinta basin the prime target area for seeding would be the wasatch mountains in the eastern portion of these counties increased runoff would occur in wasatch front streams and would be diverted from the streams near the points of use the physical features required to store and regulate the increased runoff would be similar in scope and concept to those required in the development of the ocal local 1 1 local streamflows stream flows described in the previous paragraphs except that more and larger facilities would be required weather modification represents a source of new or additional water by producing runoff from precipitation that normally would not have fallen in the area during the colder season november through april the mountains act as a natural storage torage s area for precipitation in the form of snow research programs now in progress under the direction of the bureau of reclamation project stywater skywater Sky water and others indicate a good possibility of increasing precipitation and the stream streamflcws streamflows flows about 15 percent project stywater skywater Sky water is a coordinated effort of specialists in all fields related to weather modification one concern with veacher weather veather vea wea cher modification relates to wilderness areas 507 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/6304 |
