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Show 2. High- Level Plan The second plan to transfer water from the Weber River to Salt Lake County would involve the same transfer of irrigation water from Willard Reservoir to the Davis- Weber Canal. The river flows would then be stored in Perdue Reservoir on the upper Weber River. Perdue Reservoir would require an active capacity of about 150,000 acre- feet to make a firm municipal and industrial supply of ^ 5 » 000 acre- feet annually available to Salt Lake County. Water would be released from Perdue Reservoir and conveyed through Weber- Provo Canal to the Provo River. From the Provo River it would flow through the Provo Reservoir Canal and then through the Jordan Aqueduct to Salt Lake County. The estimated annual cost for this water delivered to Salt Lake County would be about $ l60 per acre- foot, not including Bonneville Unit incurred costs. This plan would make it possible to use Weber River water in Utah County. Present Environment 1_. Low- Level Plan The area through which the pipeline from Slaterville Diversion Dam to the Davis- Weber Canal near Hill Air Force Base would be located is rapidly becoming urbanized. The proposed alinement would be mostly along the rear of lots bordering 1900 West Street in Roy. The Weber- Salt Lake Aqueduct from the Davis- Weber Canal near the mouth of Weber Canyon would include a tunnel through Sand Ridge near Hill Air Force Base. The aqueduct would then run south to Kaysville, an area rapidly becoming urbanized. From Kaysville the aqueduct alinement would run through intermittent orchards, farms, and housing developments; cross highways, freeways, and railroads; cut through oil refineries; cross lakebed terrain with a high water table; skirt the west side of Salt Lake International Airport; and then traverse the rapidly developing urban area west of Granger ( along the proposed West Valley Highway route) to the tank farm at 5900 South, southeast of Kearns. 537 |