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Show e » Need for Electrical Energy Since 1938, the demand for electrical energy in Utah has more than doubled each decade. Use of electricity has increased in the state from less than 800 million kilowatt- hours in 1938 to more than 6 billion kilowatt- hours in 1968. The corresponding capacity requirements for this same period increased from about 150,000 kilowatts to more than 1,000,000 kilowatts. The constantly increasing load resulting from population and industrial growth and from a more widespread use of electricity will require new generating capacity. The Bonneville Unit would produce 320 million kilowatt- hours of " clean" electrical energy from hydroelectric powerplants having an installed capacity of 133,500 kilowatts. 3. Bonneville Unit Plan a. Objectives The primary objective of the Bonneville Unit is to supply a portion of the present and projected needs of the Unit areas as economically as possible and in an environmentally acceptable and socially approved manner. More specifically, the objectives are to accomplish the following, ( 1) Supply existing and projected water requirements in harmony with the State Water Plan and county master plan objectives. ( 2) Help stabilize the agricultural base and reduce the out- migration from rural to urban areas. ( 3) Provide new and enhance existing recreational opportunities. ( 4) Provide area redevelopment benefits within the Unit for economically depressed areas where under- employment exists. ( 5) Provide flood- control benefits in areas where flooding is still a problem. b. Purpose and Brief Description The Bonneville Unit would include developments in both the Uinta and Bonneville Basins, with a diversion of water from the sparsely populated Uinta Basin to the more densely populated, water- deficient Bonneville Basin. Usable water supplies would be increased in the two basins by means of regulatory storage works and conveyance facilities. These facilities would include 10 new reservoirs and the enlargement of two existing reservoirs; more than 140 miles of major new aqueducts, three powerplants, 11 |