Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 2 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 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; BUREAU OF INDIAN T AFFAIRS each and every one of the uintah basin streams from which the uintah project obtains its water supply at points along the southern slopes of the uintah range at elevations sufficiently high to conduct the natural flow flew fiew of these streams by gravity through a series of interconnected tunnels into the bonneville basin it is proposed eventually to replace the water thus abstracted from the uintah basin by diverting an equivalent supply from the proposed flaming gorge reservoir on the green river the initial phase of the project however would consist only of the interception of the duchesne river and its upper tributaries tributa ries and the construction of certain reservoirs servo irs which would be designed for flood flow regulation and to provide substituted storage water for use on the uintah project to take the place of that diverted to the bonneville basin all of the irrigable lands of the uintah irrigation project have not as yet been fully developed A portion of the project lands to which water rights are ade attached is not being cultivated due to various causes some of which are doubtless because of the indians lack of capital experience and their ineptitude in agricultural pursuits other reasons are inherent in certain portions of the land which because of the lack of drainage or of soil fertility or on account of topographic conditions are not economically suitable for crop production the agricultural potentialities of these idle and partially developed lands have been the basis for the disagreement between the two bureaus the preliminary examination made by the bureau of reclamation resulted in the conclusion that a substantial percentage of these lands should be classified as nonirrigable or unsuitable for farming and therefore could not qualify for beneficial use of the bagins basics basins water supply the indian bureau on the other hand has contended that a large proportion of the areas in question could be rehabilitated by various means and that the water supply for the non reclaimable land could be transferred to more suitable lands located within the reservation As a result of the negotiations carried out during the past several months by officials from your office of the bureau of reclamation and from the phoenix area office and the uintah and ouray agency office including indian representatives it was early determined that the only proper means of reconciling the differences would be from the results of a joint survey including a adetailed detailed soil classification of the entire area under question these surveys and investigations now nearing completion were carefully designed and have been comprehensive enough to bring to light all the pertinent facts covering the economic feasibility of rehabilitating the indian lands with water rights now idle or only partially developed and also covering the practicability of transferring the indian water rights attached to non reclaimable areas to other lands susceptible of successful devel development orment 2 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9232 |
