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Show 58 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT " The project is estimated to increase the normal yield of the lake 60,000 acre feet per year, of which Salt Lake City would receive about 20,000 acre feet. " The irrigation water supply from Utah Lake is vital to the present and future water supply of the City, in that the present creek ownership constituting the major part of the present and nearly one- half of the future supply is dependent upon an adequate supply of Utah Lake water to fulfill the exchange obligations. In our opinion, these obligations can only be fully met under present conditions and future probabilities if Salt Lake City participates in this project. We recommend that this be done." THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SEEKS FEDERAL AID IN FINANCING OF AQUEDUCT FROM DEER • CREEK RESERVOIR TO SALT LAKE CITY That settled the problems of water source, but there remained another, in many respects far more difficult. The Reclamation Bureau had at one time considered the propriety of including in the Provo River Project an aqueduct by means of which the Salt Lake City supply might be delivered to it, and upon the lands within the field of its interest. But that plan was soon rejected. It was thought that the provisions of law which permitted municipalities to participate in rec- 69. Map of the Utah Lake Dike project. Construction of the dike would save about 60,000 acre feet of water annually. Bureau of Reclamalion |