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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 1 Utah Lake, page 1 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 1 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; C P f f j eyfcy 61 aud dyr add i ra r7 JAC I 1 U va v1 L IP if dac dao Z y s c & LC A VJ 52 Es & Js jur jar jurs jxr to s ri histnz utah lake is a remnant of lake bonneville that was left on the floor of utah valley when the an clent lake receded the lake is fed by in flowing streams and some small springs and seeps rising in and ad adjacent abent acent to the lake fresh water from utah lake flows in then the thea jordan river riter to the great creat salt lake bor ber boe be cause of or its geographic ceo raphic graphic similarity the naua nama naue of the river was adopted from the jordan river in israel and jordan jordana that connects the sea of galilee galileo wih with wilh the dead sea for more nore than a century water flowing from utah lake has been used for irriga irriza tion in northern utah and salt lake counties the first recorded visit of or white men to utah lake was the spanish expedition ex ed etlo ii of 1775 17 76 led by the franciscan priests francisco dominguez doninguez Donin guez guen niez and silvestre velez de escalante the group entered utah utain valley from the east through 11 brough 1rough spanish fork fori 1 canyon cd son yon and on depte septe september bibar mibar 23 17 1776 ia i6 camped on the east shores of utah lail lall laix lake laba lawa e they t ah 7h e found a larse large number num ber of ute ind indians 4 ans living nearby thais subsisted subsist ubsist eld pei pri pel primario prinzrilv primaril wacil maril wacel y on fish caught jn in ulah utah la lake le operation in 1872 j872 1.872 utan utah lake was developed into a s storage reservoir hen when a low da d8 dam was placed across the outlet to 1 jordan river A pumping plant w was L I 1 S installed in 1902 to lower the lake water level below balow the outlet ele vation the pumping 0 plant piant plaut has since been modified and enlarged several t times tires imes its present ma maximum irauiii ca lacity pacity is about 1050 second feat feet yea years rs 0 of 1 high in inflow ou cause caused 1 litah utah ulah linah lake with a dam at its outlet to occasionally rise above its normal elevation and flood L the adjacent lands this resulted in d disagree i sa crree arree ments between the land ow owners liers and water users until 1885 when b by y agreement a co compromise mp r olyi olai i s e level of the lake was est establis established establish ablis ed TI the a arbitrary elevation elem elev acion agreed upon v was as 448934 4489.34 448934 4489 34 feet above mean sea level whenever runoff forecasts durin during the filling fillina season indicate that under control led operation the lake level will exceed that el elevation the outlet gates are ope opened ned to permit parmit dis char charges chares es comparable comdarable to natural olit out flow conditions the gates remain open until the threat threatt threath of e exceeding aeed ceed lug liz 11g compromise level has passed or until the lake has subsided to compromise level even under this type of operation the lake level rose to slightly more than three f feet lec let a above alove lvove LIOVC compromise level in the dextre extre extreniely amialy mialy high hiah runoff years of 1922 and 1952 the pumping plant at the outlet of the lake is capable of lowering the lake level to about 9.3 93 93 f feet geet ee t below compromise level the lake was drawn down to 12 feet below the compromise level by emergency pumps installedon installed install edon on the lake lakes laka s west shore i in r 19 1934 34 at compromise level the max imum icum depth of the lake is about 14 feet feat the surface area is about 95000 acres 150 D square miles and the storage capacity is approxi mately 900000 acre feet evaporation and transpiration from utah lake and its shoreline vegetation is high avera averaging oino oing C c a about ou 4 feet in dept depth n from fron f roni rori the lake or a total of about 330000 acre feet annually this represents a little more than one half of the aver average acye acre c a annual 1 inflow n flou flow into int 0 t the 1 i a lake USBR USER 1975 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/10904 |
