Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 3-22 Phase II summary report (final) : Utah Lake water quality, hydrology and aquatic biology impact analysis summary for the irrigation and drainage system--Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 3-22 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 3-22 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; in attempting to put these factors into perspective the following observations are pertinent 1 the results of salt loading sensitivity analyses show that simultaneously increasing present salt concentrations in the two rivers by 25 and then decreasing them by 25 causes changes of less than 2 in the average salt concentrations in the lake 2 utah lake already experiences hyper eutrophic nutrient loadings and even fairly large nutrient changes in these rivers would be inconsequential to lake productivity 3 increases in sediment load if any to the lake from the spanish fork river would be of small impact on the overall lake due to its natural high turbidity and very large surface area however the rate of buildup of heavier sediments at the rivers mouth would increase slightly consideration of these and other factors lead to the conclusion that near future salt concentrations in in the stream and river inflows will remain about as at present the overall salt loadings are somewhat different however since some flowrates flo wrates changed for simulations of the various dike alternatives As was mentioned before the result is a 15 to 18 drop in average salt concentrations in utah lake compared to future conditions without the diking in conclusion the impacts are likely to be as follows nutrient loading nutrient loadings to the lake might 0 increase marginally with the CUP but the lake is already supersaturated super saturated with nutrients most of the year exceptions might be in protected embayment areas wherein additional nutrients would in some cases stimulate additional plant growth 322 3 22 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9212 |
