Record Details
page B-2
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page B-2 Final environmental impact statement on the Provo River Restoration Project, page B-2 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | B-2 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; source and not the valleys groundwater ground water basin all new rights for groundwater extraction to supply new development would be obtained through exchange and retirement of local surface water rights jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir is fully operational and all CUP water users reach full buildout buil dout demand levels with full utilization of ofprovo provo river water supplies the provo river demands are provo river project .100000 100000 acre feet every year CUP .107500 107500 acre feet variable annual demand summit county water users historical diversions limited to water rights wasatch county water users historical diversions limited to water rights utah county water users historical diversions limited to water rights all diversions on the provo river are made according to water right limits twelve percent of diverted unconsumed agricultural water in heber valley is lost from the provo river system and does not return to the river unconsumed agricultural water is water that is not transpired into the air by crops or evaporated potential water right adjudications by the utah state engineer are speculative at this time and therefore are not considered the central utah project completion act CUPCA authorized CUWCD to purchase from willing sellers or exchange twentyfive twenty five thousand acre feet of water rights in the utah lake drainage basin to establish among other things flows in the provo river from the olmsted diversion to utah lake a minimum of seventy five cubic feet per second CUWCD has not identified a water supply for meeting the 75 cfs cs instream instrearn in stream flow requirement therefore this instrearn instream in stream flow requirement is not included in the PROSIM modeling conducted for this EIS it applies to baseline proposed action and PRRP PREP alternatives b2112 assumptions used in modeling t the proposed action and alternatives the following key assumptions that differ from assumptions used for baseline conditions were used to model the proposed action and alternatives baseline flows needed in the lower provo river to protect the june sucker an endangered fish cannot be stored in jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir baseline spills in excess of the needs of downstream users or the june sucker can be stored in jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir it was assumed the water supply for side channel flows under the proposed action would be provo river flow bypassed through the channels and back into the provo river these side channels would be 1000 feet or less from the centerline of the provo river therefore no changes in releases from jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir would be required to provide flows for the side channels flows in the main channel of the provo river could be less than the minimum instream instrearn in stream flow requirement of 125 cfs cs as long as the combined total flow of the main channel and any side channels conveying bypassed river flows was at least 125 cfs cs at all locations between jordanelle Jor danelle and deer creek reservoirs b212 j8222 impact topic analysis methods meth ods b2121 overall approach most of the potential surface water changes identified in this water resources analysis were modeled with PROSIM which is a comprehensive surface water provo river project and CUP operations model that simulates provo river jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir and deer creek reservoir surface water conditions PROSIM is a computerized representation of the hydrology facilities water rights and institutional arrangements of the provo river system PROSIM models all of the provo river watershed the weber river above the mouth of weber canyon utah lake and the upper duchesne river on a page B 2 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/7408 |
