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Show 4. exhorbitant" municipal and industrial water costs coming on line for Utah taxpayers with a project not yet 3 0% completed, who are already saddled with inequitable taxation, unwarranted taxation, and increasing taxation, is a time bomb waiting for its explosion. 2. What is the real and inclusive c/b ratio for the Project? 1.3 as stated in 1977 or closer to . 3 - some 30C for every dollar spent.7 As the Honorable Chairman, Mr. Bevill,stated to Governor Matheson on Monday, a criteria for determining project feasibility is the c/b ratio. 3. What are construction problems being encountered in four of the five components of the Strawberry Collection System? - Stability defects require reinforcement in the Soldier Creek Dam enlargement - Currant Creek pipeline requires extensive leakage-proof repair - Vat tunnel construction has been halted due to discovery of of unanticipated underground water flows. - Upper Stillwater tunnel construction has been stopped because soil characteristics have blocked and buried construction equipment. After $300,000,000 expenditure, the contract has been cancelled. 4. Additional costs associated with these-problems will increase overall Bonneville Unit costs as well as other Units encountering geologic problems without any offsetting increase in benefits. Are cost overruns justifiable? 5. Is the question of dam safety being adequately addressed, particularly in the Upper Stillwater area? There is substantial evidence of faulting in the Uintah Basin. Recent events .reinforce residents verifications of long time seismic activity. Two earthquakes of the magnitude on the Richter scale of 4.5 and 5.0, occurreed on September 30, 1977 (Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Press Release, "Moon Lake Earthquake**) . These occurred within a 25 mile radius of Upper Stillwater Dam whose site has already been changed once or twice, due to geologic uncertainties. Residents of Duchesne are alarmed since their city is in direct line of any dam collapse. 6. In a region of landslides, unstable shale rock, water saturated Mississippian limestone ground structure, evidence of seismic • activity, has the Water and Power Resources Service utilized adequate geologic surveys and followed recommendations in all project constructions to date. Are environmental, safety', "engineering, economic consequences of such areas justifiable for CUP developments? In view of available non-structural and cheaper alternatives; discontent by taxpayers; problems with constructions; withdrawals of water from a region of the State having vast energy resources for transportation to a water surplus area; significant destruction of National Forest fish, wildlife and recreation resources and costs of $98,000,000 to replace these; project locations in an active seismic area; and a Unit of the entire Project already costing six times its proposal and being not yet 30% complete, the Committee should give serious considerations to halting further funding until these issues, and problems are fully evaluated. |
