Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 73 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Volume II, page 73 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Central Utah Water Conservancy District |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 73 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; june 14 1979 memorandum to files subject response to letter of may 18 1979 from the forest service intermountain intermounfain region commenting on the municipal and indus trial system draft environmental statement 1 comment the bureau of reclamation should not through exchange maximize maximize water releases page C 21 table C 5 from strawberry reservoir into sixth water wafer gater diamond fork streams to speed up the filling of jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir channel damage and severe reduction of brown trout spawning activities during october and november could occur response respoa respot e the maximum water releases from strawberry reservoir indicated in table C 5 would occur only once in 44 years or 2 percent of the time these maximum releases would cause a 38 percent increase in october and a 42 2 percent decrease in november in brown trout spawning habitat on sixth water creek and a 15 to 47 percent decrease on diamond fork at all other times releases would be closer to the average indicated on the table average flows would produce a substantial improvem improvement improved nt in both ad adult u it and spawning habitat for brown and cutthroat trout based on data obtained from instreqm instream in scream stream flow studies using the bureau of reclamations 11wsp11 WSP and the fish and wildlife services habitat model habitat increases are generally around several hundred to several thousand times the inadequate habitat available under existing flows during the winter months 2 comment in ap an attempt to reduce turbidity to levels that can be tolerated by aquatic organisms and fish we urge compliance with utah state water quality standards of no more than an increase of 10 JTUs maximum over existing levels at any time this would be on streams where soil dis turbing curbing activities related to the project are being conducted response because interim flows during the winter months on the diamond fork system are substantially lower than existing high flows during the summer and since these high irrigation flows will remain in the channel during the summer months under interim operation it seems unlikely that the effects of turbidity would be any more detrimental to aquatic organisms in these streams than under present conditions the bureau will 73 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9170 |
