Record Details
page B-25
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page B-25 Final environmental statement : authorized municipal and industrial system, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, Vol. 1, page B-25 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Date | 14 |
| Format | B-25 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; are no major diversions from diamond fork or sixth water creek from its confluence with diamond fork the spanish fork river flows northwest about 21 miles to utah lake there are no major tributaries tributa ries to this section of the spanish fork river but numerous diversions are made for irrigation along the lower portion from april through september As shown in table B 7 the average annual flow of the spanish fork river above the major irrigation diversions is 147100 acre feet irrigation diversions reduce this flow by about 95500 acre feet or 65 percent even after return flows and natural accretion have augmented the river just above utah lake flows of the river immediately below its confluence with diamond fork are about six times greater in the early spring months than during the winter months farther downstream the flow of the spanish fork river as it enters utah lake during the spring is about 30 times greater than flows during july through september and about twice the flows during november through february stretches of the spanish fork river above utah lake are often de watered because of irrigation diversions table B 7 summary of stream drainage and annual runoff data drainage area annual runoffl runoffs runoff 1 square acre feet station miles average maximum minimum diamond fork 7.25 725 miles above its mouth 110 76100 98100 30000 spanish fork river 3 miles below the dia mond fork confluence 670 147100 310600 62300 spanish fork river 1 mile above utah lake 700 51600 208.500 208500 16600 I 1 1 data based on 193073 1930 73 historical recorded flows 3 wasatch front streams in addition to provo and diamond forkspanish Fork Spanish fork rivers which cut through the wasatch mountains in their course to the basin a number of smaller streams which drain only the western face of the mountains wasatch front also contribute to the water resource each of these smaller streams flows either into the jordan river or through utah lake and ultimately into the great salt lake the average annual flow of the jordan river where it enters the salt lake valley at jordan narrows is equivalent co to about 262000 acre feet several major diversions from the jordan river are utilized for irrigation in the southwest portion of salt lake county because of the poor quality of the river water however it is not suitable for municipal nor domestic use nor for most industrial uses small quantities of natural flow also reach the jordan river from the oquirrh range B 25 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/11600 |
