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page B-36
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page B-36 Final environmental statement : authorized municipal and industrial system, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Vol. 1, page B-36 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 14 |
| Format | B-36 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; approximately 40000 acre feet per year could be developed if exchanges lower on the jordan river were to be accomplished by pumping and the reservoir drawn down each year the brackish residual flow of the jordan river could be captured before it enters great salt lake and pumped back to a higher elevation for reuse on public parks golf courses and possibly irrigated land although its poor quality 1200 2000 mg1 mgl mgt of TDS makes the water marginal for such purposes or the flow could be desalted salted de pumped back and reused for ordinary municipal and industrial use in the county such a plan was studied in 1973 by dow chemical under a contract with the state of utah utah division of water resources 1973 the plan investigated was a proposed development of an industrial complex along the southeast shore of great salt lake with a de salting plant and a nuclear powerplant power plant in combination with a petro chemical industry although some portions of the plan were found to be economically fea sible problems such as adverse air quality impacts closed off further consideration at that time the de salting portion of the complex did not appear favorable estimated plant production costs ranged from 101 to 126 per acre foot 1973 prices for 24000 acre feet per year of culi nary quality water delivered to salt lake county these costs were not excessive but a required collection system of dikes would cost an estimated 77 million in addition which would increase the annual cost per acre foot to about 300 without the bonneville unit water conservation measures would probably be implemented as supplies became more scarce see section H the progressive lowering of per capita use through public awareness campaigns pricing or limitations on the hours of daily use could extend the available supply several more years into the future even while growth was still occurring 7 water quality a surface water 1 provo river system the quality of water in the provo river drainage ranges from high quality at the headwaters to significantly degraded near utah lake attachment I 1 1 contains a statist statistical ical summary of water quality information at key stations for the years 1967 77 from sampling conducted by the US geological survey environmental protection agency EPA STORET forest service utah division of health brigham young univer sity mountainland association of governments 208 water quality study and bureau of reclamation the following analysis is drawn from this information a study conducted for the bureau of reclamation by eyring research institute 1976b and detailed technical analyses which were done by reclamation water quality specialists in informal cori corl consul stil stii tation with the environmental protection agency 1978 and 1979 B 36 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/7155 |
