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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 233 Final supplement to the final environmental impact statement : Diamond Fork System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 233 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 233 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; fundamental purposes the project p oject eject is intended to serve nowhere are these decisions more critical than the ultimate form and function that the diamond fork system takes the one major feature of the bonneville unit that is largely complete after more than 20 years of construction is the strawberry collection system like many other parts of the nation in the intervening period utah has undergone significant if not radical economic and demographic change water needs have changed as well as public attitudes toward the treatment and use of water resources choices will have to be made as to how uinta basin water developed by the bonnevill bennevill Bon nevill unit will now be used the design ID of the conveyance facility is the subject of this draft supplement the project is is moving toward critical decisions on how much to where and at what cost to whom will water be conveyed from the uinta basin to the bonneville basin for too long the bonneville unit has been sold as a panacea for every water problem in utah both rural and urban in reality many will sa say y it is causing more problems than it solves the project has been seriously oversold and is now stretched to the breaking point we urge urae urde the bureau to take an extreme extremelv extremely lv hard look at what it is doin doln doing in developing plans for a conveyance facility this draft supplement takes an all too narrow view of f the alternatives before the agency in I 1 and the che environmental impacts involved and it ducks serious questions about the basic purposes of the bonneville unit and the underlying economic environmental and contractual realities As a result it fails to meet the mandate of NEPA that it was intended to serve we offer our comments in a constructive spirit so that these failings may be overcome GENERAL COMMENTS COMNMNTS ON THE DRAFT supplement our general comments on the draft supplement DS fall into the following CY five categories 1 the scope of the document and the cumulative effects which are unaddressed but are likely to occur in combination with other portions of the project that are integrally tied to the diamond fork system plan 2 omissions from the analysis of factors that may significantly affect both the operation of the diamond fork system and the projects resulting environmental and economic feasibility 3 th appropriateness of the alternatives 233 2 b BEST COPY AVAILABLE |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/12986 |
