Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 231 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 231 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 231 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; 6 intermountain water alliance intermountain water alliance and other environmental organizations have long followed large projects in utah we have questioned the needs of intermountain power project hunter 3 and 4 upil up&l desert gat g&t bonanza power project the white river dam which the governor of utah stated that it was both in the national and state interest to build and the diamond fork power project in all these cases the world would have been better off financially and environmentally if the environmental organizations werd were hers herd heeded intermountain water alliance after reading this latest draft now concludes that the diamond fork system and the agricultural and irriaation irriuation irrigation system is likewise not needed we see no conservation plan pian in utah assuring us that utah will continue to be the biggest user and waster of water in the north america we see no clear reason for taking clean water from the high mountains and dumping it into utah lake for mai m&i pu purposes poses we see no reason to spend millions of dollars for supplemental irrigation water for hobby farmers and we continue to see destruction of the environment we see past stated benefits fishing in strawberry reservoir rapidly disappearing what we recommend is for the bureau of reclamation to drop the diamond fork system and the irrigation and drainage system from the central utah project should at some later time the wasatch front need water from the colorado river drainage then the state of utah or the central utah water conservancy district can build the transbasin trans basin diversion it is unfortunate that this letter will probably fall on blind eyes as has all other criticisms of water projects in utah sincerely peter hovingh trustee intermountain water alliance 231 0 2 azo 040 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/12840 |
