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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Board of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson Fred Reimherr, co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Karl Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames Talley Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations • Utah Council, Trout Unlimited •Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fly Fishermen • Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen • Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt Lake City, Utah •Order of the Royal Coachman Pleasant Crove Utah • Utah Audubon * V % ^ I .tH V N 4 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 April 10, 1980 Dear David and Marga: I have just returned from Washington where I testified at the Senate and House Appropriations hearings on water project developments and I urged no additional funding for CUP development until problems besetting the CJJ19 are examined. I don't know how up-to-date you people are on CUP at this point but 4 out of 5 projects have encountered construction problems due to geologic conditions, post-construction failures, the mole stuck in the mountain at Rock Creek, and seismic activity within 25 miles of proposed Upper Stillwater Dam in September 1977. These are for the Bonneville Unit, only. In addition, costs are 6 and 1/2 times what the public agreed to support; from $150 million up to $177 billion And according to a communication I was just given, which may not be public knowledge yet, alternatives to the now called Bonneville M & I System are to be considered. This means Kinghorn's dual water management system and others in the Salt Lake Basin are being studied as an alternative to the Jordanelle Dam expansion Into a Bonneville M S I System. Dr. Fred Reimherr, Co-Chairman of CRCUP, also testified and we lobbied Utah Congressional offices together. Utah elected officials are running scared now - with having to face problems of repayment by taxpayers and new agreements with the Federal government. I heard Matheson testify - using the old familiar myths and justifications. Hilbert's testimony is ridiculous and Siddoway's statement committs the Ute's, under their new Compact with the State, to receive their agreed upon water , to be used as needed, but to be received only through CUP development. (Blackmail) The problem is that our Utah Group has to get their Act together and really develop an opposition constituency. *tfofc>-%-tfiW £»-JC >*^t/w / This is my third attendance at the National Dam Conference and it becomes increasingly valuable to me in working with Utah people on water issues. At the request of Environmental Policy Center in Washington, I analyzed the Instream Flow Agreement between Utah and Interior and the Water Conservancy District which allows, now, not just the 6,500 acre feet of water for the Strawberry Collection streams, but 44,400 a f.-22,300 a f of these are to be supplied by the District; the remaining 22,100 are to be obtained by the State DWR, the U.S.Fish & Wildlife Service, and by the Forest Service. Compared to what was, this Agreement will retain 5056 historic adult trout habitat in 4 of the rivers involved in the Bonneville Unit development: Strawberry R., Rock Creek, Currant Creek and West Fk. of the Duchesne River. |
