Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 9 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 9 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 9 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; CHAPTER I 1 GENERAL discussions only return flow from the lower irrigated lands the flow to great salt lake conveyed from the project area by the jordan river averages about 190000 acre feet annually this water largely return flow is used at waterfowl refuges near the lake shore return flow from higher irrigated lands is generally recaptured and applied on lower areas utah lake take dake serves as a reservoir to catch unused water or return flows from provo and spanish fork rivers and several lesser streams for the irrigation of land in salt lake valley evaporation takes a heavy toll of water from utah lake consuming half of the inflow in normal years and a ld larger langer rger proportion in dry years ybars when the inflow is low and irrigation requirements are high ground water underlies much of dp the agricultural land in the bonneville basin all of the known supply however has been developed by artesian or pump wells A uniform flow from the wells is not available each year as the water levels and artesian pressures fluctuate with precipitation cycles any further development of ground water will be of minor consequence compared to the areas growing demands for water annual flows of streams originating in the uinta basin exceed local demands for water every year however variations of flow cause late summer irrigation shortages the green river traversing the eastern end of the basin carries an average of more than 1 15 5 mil mii million I 1 ion lon acre acne f feet eet beet annually above its confluence with the yampa river its major tributary this water flows unused into the colorado river further development of water of the colorado river system is permitted under the terms of the upper colorado river basin compact ratified by t the he legislatures of all upper basin states and approved by the cu congress igress agress in 1949 this compact apportions among the upper basin states the consumptive use of an average of 7 7500000 500000 acre feet annually the amount apportioned to these states by the colorado river compact signed in 1922 922 1 with arizona allocated 50000 acre feet annually the remaining 7450000 acre feet was apportioned among the other states on a percentage basis utah was apportioned 23 percent including water presently consumed in the state estimated at less than 600000 acre feet undeveloped MINERAL RESOURCES few places in the nation are so richly endowed with mineral wealth fuels metals and chemicals as the area included in or adjacent to the central utah project area discoveries of mineral resources are still being made and those already known portend continued industrial growth in the area 9 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9378 |
