Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 5 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 5 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 5 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; nonbeneficial beneficial Non consumption occurs as evaporation from the great salt lake 50 5070 5.0 50 507o evaporation from fresh water lakes and streams 15 and evaporation and use by phreatophytes and unmanaged wetlands 31 3.1 31 an estimated 7.7 77 77 million acre feet of water or 13 percent of the total precipitation enters the three major basins and constitutes the manageable water supply the utah portion of the great basin yields approximately 4.5 45 45 million acre feet annually the utah portion of the colorado river basin 301 31 3.1 million acre feet and the utah portion of the columbia basin only 0.05 005 million acre feet 10 18 during the past few years different agencies have conducted studies to further identify the existing manageable water supply define present water use and estimate projected future water requirements within da tle tie great basin area these include the following in descending order of magnitude of area covered by each study 1 a great basin interagency study136 study 136 covering portions of nevada and utah and small portions of idaho and wyoming 2 a utah state water plan 19 which covers the state of utah and 3 the bonneville unit plang piang of the central utah project which covers all or portions of 12 utah counties located in the heart of utah table al A l 1 gives data comparing related areas covered by the three studies identified above the state wate water r plan19 plan pland pian 7 projects an annual increase in diversion requirement of 2.8 28 28 million acre feet and an annual increase in consumptive use of 1.2 12 million acre feet by the year 2020 if the growth of utah is not to be curtailed these needs must be met since augmentation from outside the region is not expected before the year 2020 existing utah water supplies must suffice during the interim the report indicates that utah will exert sustained effort in three major maior directions to cope with the water needs of the future these are 1 continued efforts toward coward more effective use of locally available water supplies by better regulation and distribution better utilization of groundwater basins water salvage and planned reuse of water 2 developing the concept and the necessary physical works of an integrated water system for the state to permit the redistribution trib ution of water from areas of relative sufficiency to areas of relative scarcity and 3 improving the states institutional and management structure so as to permit and encourage more effective use of the limited water resources the state water plan pian plan19 19 L states that the potential use for water far exceeds the water supply and priorities for use will eventually need to be established at the present time however sizeable quantities of water are not being fully utilized because of a lack of reservoir capacity to store and regulate and a lack of conveyance facilities to transport the water supply 1 to 0 of 1 points use 5 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/6358 |
