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Show and repeated stocking. 00 Some Colorado cutthroat are reported to inhabit the upper reaches of streams on the slopes of the Uinta Mountains including Water Hollow Creek. 3 These sections of stream would not be affected by the Bonneville Unit. The status of the cutthroat hybrid is not clear. The June sucker inhabits Utah Lake, Mona Reservoir, and the Jordan River. The least chub still inhabits the Jordan River. The Bonneville Unit would not be expected to significantly further deteriorate the genetic identities of existing populations of either game fish species or nongame fish species in either the Upper Bonneville Basin or the Sevier River Basin, There have already been extensive fish plantings and introductions of exotic game fishes03 that have degraded native gene pools. Also there are already 17 different water diversions from the Colorado River Basin to the Bonneville Basin, some of which have been in operation for more than 50 years. 136 These diversions amount to about 100,000 acre- feet of water annually. Despite installation of fish screens on the inlets to the Strawberry Aqueduct and positioning the aqueduct inlet from Currant Creek Reservoir at a depth not frequented by fish, it would be expected that soma small fish could reach Strawberry Reservoir from the Rock Creek and Currant Creek drainages. Fish from Strawberry Reservoir would have to pass through the Diamond Fork Power System tfhich would contain three turbines. It is doubtful that fish could survive these turbines. The inlet of the power system would be screened. Water from the power system would be expected to be devoid of living fish and thus the genetic identities of the June sucker and the least chub would not be jeopardized. This water would flow through the Wasatch Aqueduct and into the Mona- Nephi Canal. Periodically, diversions |