| Title |
Issues Paper, Central Utah Project |
| Description |
Major publication compiled by Dorothy Harvey for the Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project; From The Dorothy Harvey papers (1902-2005), a collection of materials focusing on the Central Utah Project (CUP), a water resource development program to use Utah's alloted share of the Colorado River. Includes correspondence, Harvey's writing drafts and notes for an unpublished book on the CUP, federal documents, project litigation materials, subject files, news clippings, newsletters, programs, brochures, and maps. |
| Subject |
Central Utah Project; Rivers--Environmental aspects--Utah; Water resources development --Environmental aspects--Utah; Irrigation--Environmental aspects--Utah; Water-supply--Utah--Salt Lake County |
| Creator |
Harvey, Dorothy |
| Contributor |
Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project; Power, Thomas M.; Hughes, Trevor C.; Van Dam, R. Paul |
| Alternate Title |
Economic analysis of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project, Bureau of Reclamation; Feasibility of accelerating construction of the Central Utah Project; Water resources of Salt Lake County: an alternative view |
| Additional Information |
Includes as parts of this work: An economic analysis of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project, Bureau of Reclamation, by Thomas M. Power (68 p., June 1978); Feasibility of accelerating construction of the Central Utah Project, by Trevor C. Hughes, L. Douglas James, Frank Haws, C. Earl Israelsen (27 p., Jan. 16, 1978); Water resources of Salt Lake County: an alternative view, by R. Paul Van Dam (19 p., April 3, 1978); Interim report on CUP Bonneville Unit by R. Paul Van Dam (7 p., July 5, 1977); Statement of Gerald Kinghorn, Salt Lake Asst. Co. Attorney (7 p., 1977); Letter of R. Paul Van Dam to Arthur L. Monson (15 p., Nov. 18, 1977) |
| Spatial Coverage |
Colorado River Basin (Colo.-Mexico); Duchesne River (Utah); Uinta Mountains (Utah); Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.); Rock Creek (Duchesne County, Utah); Lower Stillwater Reservoir (Utah); Upper Stillwater Reservoir (Utah); Bottle Hollow Reservoir (Utah); Starvation Reservoir (Utah); Currant Creek Reservoir (Utah); Jordanelle Reservoir (Utah); Strawberry Reservoir (Utah); Utah Lake (Utah); Utah County (Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah); Duchesne County (Utah) |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2232 bx 58 fd 5; Dorothy Harvey papers |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2009, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1978 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated by CONTENTdm. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Type |
Text |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cc0zmc |
| Setname |
wwdl_neh |
| ID |
1149704 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cc0zmc |
| Title |
Page 83 |
| Setname |
wwdl_neh |
| ID |
1149571 |
| OCR Text |
Show 7£. 22 price results in 7.7 percent decline in consumption.* If this is even approximately correct, pricing policies and conservation practices could have a substantial impact in eliminating the "shortage" of culinary water. There currently is 70,000 af of high quality Wasatch Front Stream and Provo River water being used in Salt Lake County for agricultural purposes.** This water would be more appropriately used for culinary purposes and the waste water from this use used for agriculture. If the current average cost of M§I water of $110 per acre-foot*** could be paid for this water in a free water market, trades certainly would be made and the high quality water would move to its higher valued use. Given the surplus agricultural water currently being run through the ditches unused**** and the water being freed up by urban residential conversion, this would not harm agriculture. Even if one only counts on the water freed up as agricultural lands convert to residential use, 43,500 to 63,550 acre-feet of this high quality water may be "freed up" by the year 1990.***** *B. D. Gardner and S. H. Schick, "Factors Affecting Consumption of Urban Household Water in Northern Utah," Utah State University Agricultural Experiment State Bulletin 449, 1964. **208 Study, op. cit., p. 6. ***Ibid., p. 7. ****Ibid., p. 34. *****The high quality water now is 23.5 percent of agricultural water (p. 6). Using a figure of 35,000 A under cultivation and 5 af/a used for irrigation it is estimated that 120,000 af |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cc0zmc/1149571 |
