Record Details
page C-19
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page C-19 Final environmental statement : authorized municipal and industrial system, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Vol. 1, page C-19 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 14 |
| Format | C-19 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; conserve and store the abundant spring flows which sometimes damage cropland with project features irrigation water can be regulated to meet the ideal demand of agricultural crops in the area it is estimated that annual gross agricultural production would be increased by about 931000 and increased net farm income would ultimately amount to 282000 annually increases in production resulting from project irrigation are shown in table C 4 these increases are estimated at about 8700 tons of forage 1600 tons of grain and 8800 animal unit months auma aum1 AUM 1 of grazing for an increase in production of 25 28 and 18 percent respectively the project would also have adverse impacts on grazing because of the grazing losses on 1064 acres of agricultural land that would be within the reservoir management boundary livestock production would increase and would continue as the major farm enterprise with the net increase in crop production and grazing capacity it has been estimated that up to 2600 additional head of cattle could be supported on the farms throughout the year with no effect on public lands where grazing permits are at capacity the increased farm production and income in addition to providing new on farm and support industry jobs as explained earlier would provide a long longterm term stimulus to the areas business community and in turn enrich the areas tax base tax revenues from project lands would not change however since supplemental water supplied to land already under irrigation would not raise property taxes on that land b impacts on farm operations although project water would help to increase crop yields and net farm income it is not expected to affect crop types farm sizes or farm types the project water would average only about 12 acre foot per acre and would represent a rescheduling of irrigation rather than an increased annual supply irrigation would benefit about 284 families 1000 people that receive some portion of their income from farming increased income co to these families from project irrigation is estimated at 282000 annually or about 1000 per family this represents an increase in net farm income over nonproject non project conditions of about 28 percent the equivalent of up to 30 new on farm jobs would be cre aled aeed with total wages estimated at 180000 the acquisition and inundation of 1064 acres of farmland for the construction of jordanelle danelle Jor reservoir would produce 85200 in estimated losses to gross farm income the inundation of about 40 acres of prime agricultural land in the reservoir basin would be offset by the irrigation of other prime farmland in the project area although authorizing legislation prohibits the delivery of project water to lands of more than 160 acres in single ownership surveys indicate that no farms in the project service area would be affected by the legislative limitation I 1 AUM animal unit month represents the amount of feed necessary to support one cow and her unweaned calf or five sheep for one month C 19 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/11460 |
