Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 273 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Volume II, page 273 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Central Utah Water Conservancy District |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 273 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; may 20 1979 project manager bureau of reclamation PO box 1338 1358 provo utah 84601 dear sir I 1 respond to your draft environmental statement as a nro anro property bertr ertr 0 nen ner nf r in M the jordanelle Jor danelle dam area specify specifi specifically 1 cally caily the morris ranch at hailstone hallstone j our property will be taken if the dimm dnn dam d imn imm is approved in fe ference reference to chapter F paragraph parao raph 1 ahe Th themorris 1he morris eMorris property is in the fourth fourtl courtl generate generation generat4 on of 0 ownership my father has nevor never neven nevon had a desire to sell the property nor do we now A WU aru estion has been raised on the safety of the dun dur dum I 1 now nothing of geology I 1 can only tell you what we see on the surface the led 108 ledes ledges es it the vie tie tle east abutement abatement of the proposed dam hs steam or vapor on cold winter d dys ys this you can see seo the area immediately up stream from fron the base of the dui din dun dua d vi i n is v vety very vaty ry swanny swampy swa apy ipy and contains several streams of water that vary verv very very veny little T year ear round these streams will faill never have any ice on them re regardie ardie ardle s how cold it 1 sets gets in te e winter the mayflower mine has water in it so hot it will burn you and midway midwiy is full of hot pots our farm at one time was 320 acres ihen ahen hen 4hen hi highway hway 40 first passe basse asseri asperl asserl I 1 roug i the vre ure valley it was on or arrain against st the hill on the north west side it waft tien ien vide wide wideried wideded widened ried and moved to te valley floor this taking sever several il acres in the 4ots 40s bots to make ay for progress it was reali neall neali realigned re ali all aligned ned and cut the morris ranch in half going right through the middle of choice hay ground r cronn ronn roun t t is ta t4 tine time n a wider strim strip strin of ground was taken than necessar necessary yr for a two lane hi highway hway for later conversion to a wider more modern highway all tiese these sars yars aars stat ttat t at hns his has hae hie set sel 1 idle not bein beins being used then also in those years the te flood easement was siven given iven for the provo river leaving what we now have approximately anproxim bitely itely 270 20 acres the mines of course are at a stand still right now but 4 in jn the pst past the tunnel ditch has been so polluted with waste and minerals and water so bad tnt m7 my ma him bim 111 lo io mother .10 10 ther has had to boil their dr drilling drinking drirling irling water out of the well I 1 nerso personally nally mally maily on many occassi oc occassions occas cassi sions ons ask the state fish and gune gyne gime G une yne to look in to it and it was also turned into the state board of health and they found it to be unsafe water A problem that was taken care of at the time but could surely ha haten happen ten pen again our farm has always produced some of the best meadow hay to be h d in wasatch county it is a beautifil beautiful beauti fil place it is a beautiful piea plem piem pie0 miae nia miye niy mia e of aroun croun ground I 1 personally have to raise my voice in in protest al against having it flooded put you dam some where else surely there are alternati alternative alternate re sites tit tut ta t1 would woulo hould boulo no not take yet another ploce piece of private ground round suc such euch as our farm our property is of neat treat great reat concern to us and would asl ask ael ash that thqt th vac vfc tis t is letter and nd afew remarks to taken into consideration sincerely sincqrely sinc sine ere jours 7 M ko e 0 rr c 273 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9106 |
