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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 139 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 139 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 139 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; CHAPTER IV consultation AND coordination this district has by virtue of a contract the right to operate the project water conveyance facilities we presently operate the syar tunnel inlet facilities and do not intend on relinquishing that to another entity SUESPONSK 33 the text of the final supplement has been modified to clarify this issue letter from edom Inter intermountain intennountain intermuntain muntain water alliance from june 6 1989 INRITTM WRITTEN connant COIOCKNT CONNZNT 34 there is no mention of the conservation plan to reduce the demand for the trans basin diversion see the letter from the US environmental protection agency in the final supplement to the final environmental statement for the municipal and industrial system of the bonneville unit of the central utah project page 201 and the bureaus response issue 73a 73b and 73c note that water conservation plans will begin to be implemented during the years 1995 and 2000 page 179 long after the central utah project is comple compie completed tee ted the ramification of this delayed water conservation effort and we have not even seen a preliminary plan yet are a there will be no water conservation because repayment of water contracts will require continued wastage of water and there will be huge surpluses of water for the next 50 years in all regions the central utah project operates already during the sixth driest year on record 1988 there was no rationing 4 of water and neither little dell or the jordanelle Jor danelle projects were operating and the red fleet reservoir near vernal was utilized only for token reasons flaming gorge continues to be sitting still without any water being utilized b ohs ths th central utah project is contrary to water conservation dual water systems which are popular throughout most of utah are not utilized in utah and salt lake counties the two counties being the recipient of most of the waters of the jordanelle Jor danelle and diamond fork system continued wastage of culinery culinary culi nery sic water on lawns in these two counties will continue c utah is perhaps the only state in which water conservation is nonexistent in the public review draft state water plan 1989 it is stated presently state water policy on oa conservation is in its early stages page 171 17 1 it is ironic that the federal agency the bureau of reclamation has no water conservation plan at this time even though it has been operating in the arid west for 80 years thus with continued emphasis on water development the taxpayers will both literally and figuratively continued to be soaked RESPONSE 34 although no specific section of the diamond fork system of the environmental statement references water conservation conservationit conservationist it would be in error to assume that the bonneville 139 W |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/12973 |
