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Show No Additional Construction of Proposed Plan Beyond Existing Contracts a. Description of the Alternative With the features already constructed or under contract, no water could be diverted and transported to the Bonneville Basin for municipal and industrial use " because of the lack of agreements for conveyance of Bonneville Unit water from Strawberry Reservoir. Under this alternative most of the water in the streams along the Strawberry Aqueduct would not be diverted as planned and allowed for in the Indian Agreement, but would be left in the stream channel for existing uses and future development in the Uinta Basin. Because the Indian Agreement would not be fulfilled, the Indians could exercise their prior right to the water for 20,705 acres of Group 2 to k lands and 15,21+ 2 acres of Group 5 lands. This would deprive the non- Indians in the Uinta Basin of the use of 36,200 acre- feet annually of presently used direct flow. This is water that the non- Indians have been receiving but would lose if the Indians exercised their rights. Continued use of this water by the non- Indians has been assured by the Indian Deferral Agreement under the Bonneville Unit. They could overcome this loss by purchasing additional storage water which would be available in Starvation Reservoir as a result of not diverting to Strawberry Reservoir. Thus, the non- Indian landowners would have to purchase a supply of 57 » 600 acre- feet from the Bonneville Unit, rather than the 21,^ 00 acre- feet needed under the proposed plan. The 15,2^ 2 acres of Group 5 Indian lands would require a reduction in divertible flows to Strawberry Reservoir of U8,900 acre- feet annually: 1* 3,300 acre- feet from Rock Creek and 5,600 acre- feet from the Duchesne River. If the necessary agreements with the Strawberry Water Users Association can be obtained to convey Bonneville Unit water through their facilities, a small amount of water would be available to the Bonneville Basin. Layout and Water Hollow Creeks are expected to yield ^, 200 acre- feet of water annually for storage in Strawberry Reservoir. Soldier Creek Dam would enable collecting an additional 19,000 acre- feet annually in Strawberry Reservoir, representing the inflow to Strawberry River between the existing and new dams. Increased evaporation from the enlarged reservoir would amount to about 7,000 acre- feet annually, leaving about 16,200 acre- feet available in the enlarged reservoir. Using 3,000 acre- feet for fishery bypasses at Soldier Creek Dam leaves 13,200 acre- feet which could be delivered to Bonneville Basin through the existing tunnel. By exchange out of Utah Lake, Jordan Aqueduct could deliver this water to Salt Lake County for municipal and industrial use. This exchange 547 |
