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Show 22 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT Under " Local Sources" the Board considered the following possibilities: " 1. More Complete Utilization of Present Exchanges. " 2. Additional Storage in Parley's. " 3. Big Cottonwood Storage. " 4. Little Cottonwood. " 5. Reservoir Sites in Adjacent Canyons." Under " Outside Sources" the Board considered: " Project No. 1- The supply for for this project is the winter and Hood stage flow of the Upper Duchesne watershed, conveyed by means of a tunnel to the Upper Provo River. " Project No. 2- Unappropriated water from the upper Green watershed. " Project No. 2 a- The Weber River to furnish the supply for this project with direct storage in Echo Reservoir located at Echo on the Weber River. " Proect No. 3- The source of supply for this project is also the Weber River, storage to be provided in the proposed Larrabee reservoir, located about fifteen miles above Oakley, on the upper Weber River. " Project No. 4- Runoff from the upper Duchesne watershed during period of winter flow and flood stage months constitutes the supply for this project. " Project No. 4 a- It is assumed, in connection with the initial development of this project, that the City can secure sufficient capacity in the proposed Deer Creek reservoir, and in the Echo reservoir now being constructed, to effect exchanges with the Provo River lower forks; ultimate development to be supple- 35. Feed channel for the Utah Lake pumping plant. Receding waters of Utah Lake forced the users to deepen the intake channels in order to reach waters not accessible to the pumps. S. L. C. Eng. Dept. |