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Show country with scattered cedar and pinion trees. Sagebrush also would be found along the alinement. Still other canals would be in more arid parts of the basin with a low growing sagebrush, greasewood or shadscale cover along the canal alinements. One pumping plant would lift water from Flaming Gorge Aqueduct during the winter season to fill Bluebell Reservoir. Other pumping plants would lift water to canals to irrigate lands during the summer season. On Leland Bench 6,900 acres would be served by gravity and 8,280 acres would be served by pumping. j6. Bonneville Basin Distribution System The Bonneville Basin Distribution System would consist of the 510,000- acre- foot active capacity Jordanelle Reservoir enlargement; the 16.9- mile- long Jordanelle Tunnel; the 31.2- mile- long Herriman Aqueduct; the 9.4- mile- long earth lined Brighton Feeder Canal; the 35,000- acre- foot active capacity Bailey Reservoir; and the 12.8- mile- long Alpine Aqueduct. These facilities would deliver 226,000 acre- feet of high quality municipal water annually to Utah and Salt Lake Counties. The 300 c. f. s. Herriman and the 90- second- foot Alpine Aqueducts would both be buried pipelines along the upper fringes of urban areas near the base of the steep Wasatch Range. The extreme ends of the aqueducts would traverse dry farmed areas. Ground cover along these aqueducts would consist of oak brush, grasses, thistles and sagebrush. The 320 cf. s. Brighton Feeder Canal would be earth lined and extend from near Redwood City northwesterly through low lying salt grass covered areas to Bailey Reservoir located west of Salt Lake International Airport. This area is increasingly being converted to residential and industrial park type developments. Beneficial Impacts Present plans for the design and location of features of the Ute Indian Unit are still in the formative stage and subject to recommendations of the State of Utah, other Federal Agencies, the Ute Indian Tribe, and others in sizing the scope of the plan„ Assessment of impacts, therefore, are general and incomplete. 430 |