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Show Wasatch Mountains to the Bonneville Basin for power generation, irrigation, municipal and industrial use, and other purposes in central Utah. Water conservation for irrigation, municipal use, and other purposes would also be accomplished in Utah's Uinta Basin, a part of the Colorado River Basin. Supplemental water would be furnished for 131,840 acres and a full supply for 28,540 acres not presently irrigated. Municipal and industrial water averaging 48,800 acre-feet annually would be provided and power averaging 373,000,000 kilowatt-hours annually would be generated at project plants with installed capacities totaling 61,000 kilowatts. The potential Strawberry Aqueduct would intercept flows of Rock Creek and other Uinta Mountain streams west of Rock Creek and convey the water to the existing Strawberry Reservoir which would be enlarged by the construction of Soldier Creek Dam below the present dam. The reservoir water would be released through an enlargement of the present tunnel to the headwaters of Spanish Fork River in the Bonneville Basin. In descending Spanish Fork Canyon, the water would flow through a series of power plants before being consumptively used in the central Utah area. Through various exchanges and by the construction of the required facilities, the water would be made available to an area extending from Salt Lake City south 75 miles to Nephi. New project works that would develop water for use in the Uinta Basin would include Hanna Reservoir on the North Fork of Duchesne River, Starvation Reservoir on Strawberry River with a feeder canal from the Duchesne River, Upalco Reservoir offstream from Lake Fork River, Stanaker Reservoir with a feeder canal from Ashley Creek, and Tyzack Reservoir on Brush Creek. Investigation Activities The definite plan report on the overall project is scheduled for completion about 1963. A definite plan report was completed on the Vernal Unit in 1957 and funds for the start of construction were appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 1959. The Bureau of Reclamation has been giving priority to studies upon which to decide between various alternative plans and to select the scale of development, the areas to be served and the project facilities. Topographic and location surveys and land classification work are well advanced. Water supply studies will require considerable additional effort. Also a final selection of areas to be served and capacities to be provided in project works must be determined. The Bureau of Reclamation has been working closely with the Utah State Engineer's Office and with the Utah Water and Power Board to resolve the major water right problems involving water exchanges, existing water rights and filings. If the Bureau determines from studies now being made that certain units of the Central Utah 39 |
