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Title page 113 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Volume II, page 113
Coverage Electronic reproduction;
Source Central Utah Water Conservancy District
Publisher Brigham Young University
Date 2005-10-14
Format 113 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; response coordination of ground water and surface water supplies is currently practiced in both salt lake and utah counties within individual water supply entities to the extent possible under existing physical legal and economic constraints however coordination of the total water resource among suppliers has not yet been fully attained this would likely require a consolidation of present water rights 10 comment implementation of the bureau of reclamations proposed wildlife miti gation plan to acquire 1910 acres for wildlife would provide adequate mitigation for the majority of impacted species with the exception of the golden eagle the reservoir is only 500 to 1500 feet from three alternate eagle nests and combined with the planned recreation devel opment oiment on the east arm and recreation activities will have a sustained detrimental impact on the nesting golden eagles contrary to the state ment in the third paragraph on page C 47 response section C 9f af of the FES has been expanded to indicate that recreational activities at the reservoir could be disturbing to nesting golden eagles however recreational activities at the reservoir would not begin in earnest until the fishing se season ason begins about the ist of june by this time the young eagles would be hatched out and ap proaching preaching pro aching the fledgling stage and human activities in the area would be more tolerated by the parent birds this fact along with the re striction of public access and construction activities in the vicinity of the nesting area during the breeding and nesting period as discussed in section 2 df would minimize the disturbance to the nesting eagles the utah division of wildlife resources would manage the wildlife area where the eagle eyrie is located the division could aid in the restriction of public use of this area during the critical breeding and nesting periods 11 comment the DEIS indicates the proposed pro project proiect iect hect will not significantly affect the utah lake ecos ecosystem y slem stem page B 46 and therefore the relationship of the provo river to the ecology of utah lake is not considered the project will reduce provo river flows into utah lake about 90 percent during the nonirrigation season C 39 that period when walleye utilize the lower provo for spawning it appears likely a flow reduction of this magnitude could negatively affect the walleye spawning popula tion utilizing the provo river and most certainly the annual walleye spawn taking operation of our division in this stream reach additionally the june sucker chasmistes sp previously believed extirpated but recently thought to be rediscovered in utah lake is 113
Identifier http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/10253

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