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Show perpetual allotment of 50,000 acre- feet of water annually from the Bonneville Unit. The initial delivery was requested during calendar year 1974, and the total allotment would be used by about 1990. An order approving the petition of the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District was executed by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District on June 29, 1971. The petition was also signed by the Regional Solicitor and by the Regional Director of the Bureau of Reclamation, as authorized representatives of the Secretary of the Interior. e. Bonneville Unit Water Rights and Contractual Commitments ( 1) Water Rights In the investigations for the Bonneville Unit, the clarification and definition of existing Indian and non- Indian water rights and water requirements in the Duchesne River service area was prerequisite to contractual arrangements and final planning for both further local development of water resources and for exportation of water from Duchesne River tributaries to the Bonneville Basin. Generally, the Uinta Basin streams are over- appropriated in the later part of the irrigation season. Consequently, flood flows or high flows stored for late season use are extremely valuable. Usually, water diversion requirements are much greater than supplies available for diversion, except during periods of high flows. The Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal, State, and local sponsors of the Central Utah Project recognized the need for an appropriate water- rights application for the Central Utah Project. Therefore, on September 4, 1946, the Bureau of Reclamation filed Application No. 18043 with the State Engineer, covering the appropriation of water for both the initial and ultimate phases of the Central Utah Project. The application sought to appropriate 800,000 acre- feet of water from lakes, streams, and proposed reservoirs in the Uinta Basin along the proposed Strawberry Aqueduct from Brush Creek on the east to Strawberry Reservoir. Strawberry Reservoir was to be enlarged from its present active capacity of 270,000 acre- feet to an active capacity of 1,370,000 acre- feet. Application No. 18043 covered all of the reservoirs and points of diversion along the collection system and lands in the Bonneville Basin, but it did not cover lands in the Uinta Basin or reservoirs to distribute the water. The Bureau of Reclamation requested that the State Engineer delay action on this application until the definite plan report for the Bonneville Unit was completed and the conservancy district was organized. 21 |
