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Show 68 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT mission and the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and the good judgment of the District's Board. The opportunity to save annual interest charges of approximately $ 200,- Up to this point we have given, except in a few instances, very little more than a bare outline. It is now our purpose to elaborate somewhat, to give something more of detail of the Provo THE WATER SUPPLY The project water supply will come, almost entirely, from the Weber and Duchesne Rivers. From the Duchesne River there will be diverted an annual average of about 30,000 acre feet of surplus water, and from the Weber River an annual average of 54,000 acre feet of surplus and 20,000 acre feet of " Power Water." The Duchesne River water is entirely of " Surplus," that is water which is available during the flood season and which now flows into the Colorado and is thus lost to the State of Utah. It will be diverted from the Duchesne and to the Provo River by the six mile Duchesne Tunnel now under construction. The Weber River water is both " Surplus" and " Power Water." The Surplus here also is that which is now lost to beneficial use into Great Salt Lake during the high water stages of the Weber. 000 per annum in the financing of the aqueduct, without which the entire enterprise was of doubtful feasibility, was afforded by the foresight, the diligence and the energy of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City. River Project, the Provo River Water Users Association and the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City in all of their aspects and relationships, as follows: The " Power Water" of the Weber River is a large part of the water which has heretofore been passed for the generation of electrical energy through the power plants of the Utah Power & Light Company, and thence into Great Salt Lake. This water will be diverted to the Provo River through the Weber- Provo Diversion Canal and compensation to the Power Company will come from an augmented supply to its power plants on the Provo. Some additional supply will come by way of exchange with Provo River and Utah Lake users. That amount of Provo River or Utah Lake water will be withheld for storage in the Deer Creek Reservoir which is equal in quantity to that by which the river and lake users are benefited by return flow and seepage of the project waters into their sources of supply after use on the project lands. This will amount in effect, to a recapture and reuse of a part of the reservoir supply. The reservoir capacity of 150,000 acre feet permits the holding over of the surplus of one year to make good The Provo River Project 1. The Deer Creek Division |
