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Show tively. It is anticipated that some water will be delivered to a portion of the lands in 1962 with the first year of full service scheduled for 1963. 3. UTAH a. Central Utah Project (Initial Phase) The Central Utah Project (initial phase) will intercept streams draining the southern slope of the Uinta Mountains in the Colorado River Basin and will convey the water by gravity flow through the 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 will also be accomplished in Utah's Uinta Basin, a part of the Colorado River Basin. Supplemental water will 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 will be provided and power averaging 373,000,000 kilowatt-hours annually will be generated at project plants with installed capacities totaling 61,000 kilowatts. The potential Strawberry Aqueduct will intercept flows of Rock Creek and other Uinta Mountain streams west of Rock Creek and convey the water to the existing Strawberry Reservoir which will be enlarged by the construction of Soldier Creek Dam below the present dam. The reservoir water will 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 will 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 will be made available to an area extending from Salt Lake City south 75 miles to Nephi. New project works that will develop water for use in the Uinta Basin will 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, Steinaker Reservoir with a feeder canal from Ashley Creek, and Tyzack Reservoir on Brush Creek. Construction Activities Construction of the Vernal Unit of the Central Utah Project is progressing on schedule. The name of "Steinaker" for several features of the project was adopted. This spelling corresponds to that used 63 |