Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 23 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 23 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 23 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 II 11 DEVELOP development ment MELT melm PLAN PIAN ilan this plan would permit more project water to be diverted to provo river than can be acquired by exchange it is unattractive however because of its high cost west fork duchesne river diversion A direct diversion could be made by a 7 mile nile mi ie tunnel from 1 the he strawberry aqueduct at the west for yor fork ll 11 of the duchesne river to the provo prove river drainage area storage could be provided at the bates site or at the stewart ranch site on the provo river this plan would permit more project water to be used from provo river than would the adopted plan but it would increase the construction cost and reduce the hydroelectric power output of the project rock bock creek diversion A direct diversion from rock bock rcck creek to the provo river could be made by a 10 mile nile mlle tunnel from rock creek to the north fork of the duchesne river eiver elver and a 7 mile nile tunnel from there to the provo river storage could be provided at the upper stillwater reservoir site on rock creek and at the bates or stewart ranch reservoir site on the provo river this plan is an alternative to the provo river exchange but is more costly than the adopted plan it would also reduce the hydroelectric output of the project duchesne tunnel diversion divers ion lon the lower end of the duchesne tunnel could be plugged and water from provo river dropped into the tunnel through a shaft provo river water could then be conveyed to the west fork of the duchesne river this water together with that of the west fork which otherwise would have flowed vest west westward ward vard through the tunnel to the provo diverl riverl river could be conveyed by the strawberry aqu agu aqueduct educt to strawberry reservoir on being released from the reservoir it could be utilized in central utah project power plants in the diamond fork and then returned to lands lanas in the provo river service area by means moans of an aqueduct from spanish fork river along the foothills of the wasatch range this plan is unattractive at this time due to the detailed involvement in water rights ultimate phase echo park diversion water could be provided the uinta basin by pumping from the echo park reservoir rather than by a gravity diversion from flaming gorge reservoir tho the echo park reservoir like the flaming gorge would be a feature of the colorado river storage project it would be located on the green river about 3 miles above the point where the river crosses the colorado utah boundary water would be pumped from the reservoir 130 to 300 feet depending on the elevation of the reservoir water surface the average lift would be about 170 feet from the pumping plant 23 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9761 |
