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Show /?. \ i ^ j / v f (To Strawberry SYARIT Reservoir) Power Plant and Peaking Power Reservoir DIAMOND FORK POWER SYSTEM Power development in the Bonneville Unit will consist of the Diamond Fork Power System, with three power plants and associated waterways, regulatory reservoirs, switchyards, and transmission lines. Bonneville Unit water in Strawberry Reservoir and water of the existing Strawberry Valley Project will be transferred from the Uinta to the Bonneville Basin through Syar pressure tunnel, which will replace the existing free-flow tunnel. Approximately 197,600 acre-feet of water would be released annually through the tunnel, including 61,000 acre-feet of normal yield from the Strawberry Valley Project. From the tunnel the water will descend about 2,000 feet through Syar, Sixth Water, and Dyne Power Plants, in succession, to the valley floor. Water released through the power plants will be used mostly for irrigation, with some for municipal and industrial purposes. The Syar, Sixth Water, and Dyne Power Plants will have a total generating capacity of about 133,500 kilowatts slightly more than Flaming Gorge. Part of the power produced at these plants will be used for Bonneville Unit pumping and the remainder for commercial consumption, with resulting revenues to be used to help repay Unit costs. Other features of Diamond Fork Power System include the Syar, Sixth Water, and Dyne Penstocks, Dyne and Corona Aqueducts, and Syar and Sixth Water regulatory reservoirs. The power plants would generate an average of 319,500,000 kilowatt-hours of energy annually. Bonneville Unit pumping plants will require about 8,000 kilowatts of capacity at peak loads and an average of about 20,400,000 kilowatt-hours of energy. The remaining power would be integrated with that generated at power plants of the Colorado River Storage Project and sold commercially. Bonneville Unit power will be transmitted to points of use over an interconnected system of Federal and private transmission lines under contracts made for the Colorado River Storage Project. |
