Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 4 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 4 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 4 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; PUBLIC HEAT hegt hegy HEALTH LJ r L m n 1 SERVICE REPORT proper development treatment and utilization of water to be made available during the initial phase of the project will benefit many of the communities and industries in the bonneville and uinta basins the public health benefits to the communities involved would be difficult to evaluate from a monetary standpoint however the provision of safe water supplies where they are urgently needed will eliminate the health hazards associated with the use of unsafe water supplies for domestic purposes in the development of proposed water supplies it is anticipated that the state health authorities will require adequate treatment of all water to be made available for drinking and culinary purposes the cost of providing such treatment would be properly chargeable to the communities to which the water is to be allocated stream pollution problems in an area of intensive development and maximum utilization of water resources stream pollution is a public health problem that is closely allied with the incidence of water borne diseases the water to be developed in the bonneville and uinta basins originates in the mountains where surplus rainfall and melting snow will be collected and stored in the sparsely settled and heavily forested areas involved pollution of the supply at the sources should be negligible however in some cases the water will be subject to pollution by domestic and industrial wastes as it flows through the population centers while enroute to the areas where it is to be used information regarding the municipal sewerage systems and the methods of sewage treatment in the bonneville and uinta basins is presented in table II 11 utah lake and the jordan river are the most critical from the standpoint of water pollution in the bonneville basin the jordan river originates about 27 miles south of salt lake city directly below the lower end of utah lake from whereit whereat where it flows north through a densely populated area adjoining state highway no 68 and U S highway no 9150 91 50 the river finally flows into the great salt lake about 6 miles northwest of salt lake city during the irrigation season water is pumped from utah lake to the jordan river to maintain sufficient flow for irrigation purposes the jordan river is subject to pollution by a large volume of untreated and partially treated domestic and industrial wastes that flow into utah lake or directly to the river the communities of provo springville Spring ville and spanish fork foric with a combined population of 27034 discharge raw sewage and payson population 3591 discharges primary treatment plant effluent into utah lake and its tributaries tributa ries murray midvale mid vale vaie and sandy with a combined population of 10102 discharge primary treatment plant effluent directly to the jordan river or its tributaries tributa ries existing treatment plants including septic tank installations at murray and midvale are considered inadequate the wastes from salt lake city and south salt lake with a combined population of 155635 155 635 are discharged directly to the great salt lake these latter wastes are not involved in the pollution of irrigation waters 4 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/10549 |
