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Show Beer Creek Diversion Dam would divert existing natural flows from the natural stream channel into a channel around and above the reclaimed lands to discharge back into the Beer Creek channel below the proposed dike. This development would leave about 7 miles of Beer Creek essentially dawatered. This natural channel would then be deepened and in places rechanneled to serve as a collecting and outlet for the proposed Unit drains and existing drainage systems that empty into Beer Creek below the Diversion Dam. This 7- mile section of stream has no sport fishery value and aquatic habitat losses, if any, would be concerned with non- game fish, invertebrates, waterfowl, and other stream- side birds and animals. The new channel likewise would have no fishery value but would be expected to create some pheasant, muskrat, skuik, and waterfowl habitat. The conversion of about 1,600 acres of marsh- meadow land to irrigated farm land would have a significant visual impact upon the natural landscape. Whether esthetic values would be increased or reduced would be a matter of individual taste and judgment so that the esthetic impact would be questionable. The Beer Creek Dike would be a compacted aarth embankment about 12 feet high and 1.4 miles long. The soil adjacent to the site would be suitable for construction. The physical impacts of construction upon the landscape would by substantial; however, the degree of esthetic degradation would be questionable, again depending upon judgment factors. Vegetative restoration of disturbed areas around the dike and canals would not be expected to be unusually difficult because of the favorable terrain. The usual undesirable levels of" noise and dust would be attained during construction. Mosida Canal and Elberta Canal and Diversion System The Mosida Canal would be an 18- mile open structure lined with earth and would convey water pumped from Utah Lake to the southern Mosida area for irrigation. The Elberta Canal would be an enlargement of an existing canal which would receive water from the enlarged Mona Reservoir via Currant Creek and the Elberta Diversion Dam located about 1.5 miles below Mona Dam. Most of this 13- mile earth- lined canal would be open; however, the 2- mile 270 |