Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2 Utah Lake, page 2 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 2 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; most of the vater water released from utah lake is diverted from the jordan river for irrigation 0 use in northern utah and salt lake counties some lake water is also used for in strial dustrial du purposes in salt lake county surplus water in jordan river flows into the great salt lake environmental benv env i ronmenta ron menca menta manca 1 description utah lake is highly rated as a warm wac wat vater water er fishery it presently supports 4 flourishing C populations of channel caff catf catfish ish wa walleye ileya and whine white wh ite bass the lake also provides im portant porlant habitat for waterfowl and pheasantsparticularly pheasants particularly in the provo and goshen bay areas non 0 game oame birds are receiving 0 increasing at tention and over 80 species of or such birds have been observed in the area recreationalists use utah lake for a wide variety of water waters oriented sports utah lake state park located on the east shore of the lake currently provides recreation oppor t tuni tuul tunities cies ties cles tes les for more than 250000 people per year winter activities include ice skating and s snowmobiling tmobiling proiect project pro ject development utah lake is a vital coma cona component ponent of the bonneville unit of the central utah project provo and goshen bays will be separated from the main body of utah lake by dikes to reduce evaporation losses diking of utah lake will reduce the surface surface area arca 01 of P the lake by about 35 percent and will result in an estimated evalora evapora tion savings C of 105000 acre feet of water this amount together with useable useablc pro project ject eject return f flows lows lovs col lected lecter in the lake will develop a new vater water supply of about 150000 acre feet of water annually 1 under u project operation the level of the lake will be maintained at about its present elevation with vith eith fluctuations as in the past according to annual runoff and downstream use dur buring during burins in CD 11 flood yea years rs water will be spilled into goshen bay day doy to control lake levels leval leveis devai devel S 2 project water collected in UL utah ali all lake will consist of L the evaporation sa savings savenos venas vinas venos CD water released from L S straw L raw berry reservoir through the diamond fork power system and return flows from project water used for irri irrl irria a tion municipal and industrial pur poses in utah valley valey vailey part of the project water collected in utah lake will vill 1 be e used for the irrigation of lands near the lake shore sl bore 1042 iore and part will be exchanged up upstream streat n ri on the provo river for water hat that ehat E presently f lows flows into the lake the replaced provo river water will be stored in the new jordanelle Jor danelle reservoir to be constructed about 6 miles north of heber city some 0 of f the water stored in this 320000 acre 1 1 foot oot ca pac pacity lacity ity reservoir will be used for supplemental irrigation in 411 gli the heber he ber francis area but the greater part will wili wil wll I be used for municipal and in dustrial strial du purposes in utah and salt lake counties provo baydike baylike bay dihe dike dibe if the proposed provo ba bay bey Y dike dika bike bika diee i is s constructed it will be an earth f fill ii 1 s structure e 7 72 2 miles long 0 with a maximum height of 24 feet above the bed of the lake it will be 30 feet wide at crest elevation of i 4 4504 D 04 feet and will contain about 3220000 cubic yards of emban amban embankment L T i e 1 I t material the dike will begin 0 near provo river north of L provo municipal airport and will extend southward around the west we st side of L the airport and across the bay the bay at the eastern extremity of utah lake covers 7000 acres of compromise i 7 1 USBR USSR 1975 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/11301 |
