Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 27 Final environmental statement : authorized municipal and industrial system, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Vol. 2, page 27 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 13 |
| Format | 27 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; response the conversion of irrigation water to municipal and industrial uses is assumed to occur under the bonneville unit plan with or without the project an estimated 25500 acre feet of irrigation water per year in northern utah county and 10000 acre feet per year in salt lake county will be converted incrementally over the next 20 years this is shown in figures B 6 and C 2 about half of northern utah countes countys Coun tys future municipal and industrial water requirements would be met through irrl gation conversion several small recently urbanized areas in salt lake county are now using water previously used for irrigation by employing independently developed dual water supply systems proposals to use these systems throughout salt lake county are still in in the conceptual stage and have not been subjected to a detailed engineering and economic analysis preliminary analysis has revealed that the feasibility of using dual systems on a large scale in salt lake county is questionable there is a practical limit to the amount of demand that can be met by a dual water supply system obtaining a secondary low quality water supply is basic to the concept of a dual water supply system the only significant source for salt lake county is utah lake but water is not now available from the lake unless existing water rights are acquired shares of stock in irriga irriza tion companies using water from utah lake cannot be purchased in large quantities the central utah water conservancy district has attempted to purchase that stock for several years at the prevailing market prices but has not been successful in obtaining shares of any significance over the years a considerable amount of utah lake water has been pur chased by the kennecott copper company and used for industrial purposes some water from the lake formerly used in salt lake county is now pumped for irrigation use in the west mountain and mosida monida areas includ include ing the elberta farms development there are other areas adjacent to and west of utah lake that are still in need of irrigation water and that would be using utah lake water if it were available at a reason able cost in addition to the problem of its availability the delivery of utah lake water in a dual system to most of salt lake county would require exten sive pumping the elevation of most of the canals delivering water from utah lake and the jordan river is such that only a narrow area in the center of the valley could be served by gravity proponents of a dual system have not realistically considered the pumping costs existing dual systems along the wasatch front are successful because of the high elevation of the delivery facilities provided under the bureau of recla mations lations mat ions weber river ogden river and weber basin projects the state of utah has raised questions on the health aspects of dual water systems it is possible that children would drink water from the low quality system or that the two systems would inadvertently be connected contamination of existing high quality systems in the past has resulted in residents having to boil all drinking water 27 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/7029 |
