| Title |
Draft Central Utah Project notes by Dorothy Harvey, 1978-1979 |
| Description |
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 Includes correspondence, Harvey's writing drafts and notes for an unpublished book on the CUP, federal documents, project litigation materials, subject files, news clippings, newsletters, programs, brochures, and maps |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; Water resources development --Environmental aspects--Utah; Water-supply--Utah--Salt Lake County; Water-power--Environmental aspects--Utah |
| Creator |
Harvey, Dorothy |
| Contributor |
Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project; Kinghorn, Gerry |
| Additional Information |
Includes: Draft notes by Dorothy Harvey on CUP issues; Minutes of organizational meeting July 12, 1978; Regional planning councils, list of personnel (11 p.); Salt Lake Tribune article, Jan. 18, 1979, "Owners of water sell to project," with interpretation by Gerry Kinghorn. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Colorado River Basin (Colo.-Mexico); Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.); Duchesne River (Utah); Uinta Mountains (Utah); Rock Creek (Duchesne County, Utah); Jordanelle Reservoir (Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah); Duchesne County (Utah) |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2232 bx 58 fd 8; 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; 1979 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Type |
Text |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6028qg6 |
| Setname |
wwdl_neh |
| ID |
1149801 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6028qg6 |
| Title |
Page 23 |
| Setname |
wwdl_neh |
| ID |
1149773 |
| OCR Text |
Show - The transbasin diversion of Uintah Basin Water to the Wasatch Front - when water is already available in Salt Lake and Utah counties - deprives Uintah Basin of water needed there for its growth and development and for Indian Tribal obligations!. DO YOU CARE • • • • THAT CUP DEVELOPMENT . • . - will bring about a loss of some 319 miles of Utah's valuable and irreplaceable Class I, II, and III trout streams and their associated wildlife and recreation resources ? - will bring about losses of Utah's valuable deer winter range, stream valley moose habitat, Upland Game and non-game birds and mammals? - through diking over one third of Utah Lake, the wetland and zootic resources making Utah Lake unique to the State and possibl y to the nation, will be eliminated ? White-faced Ibis, Black-crowned and Blue herons, snowy egrets, Cormorants and Pelicans, varieties of shorebirds and waterfowl, Canada geese, as well as food supply and spawning sources for the existing fisheries. Recreation values will be greatly altered, some completely lost. - the two most outstanding canyons on the Uinta Range - Rock Creek and Whiterocks - and their valuable trout streams - will be destroyed ? U T A H N E E D S S T A T E W A T E R R E F O R M - N O T F E D E R A L W A T E R D E V E L O P M E N T! Central Utah Project Coalition 721 2nd Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 (temporary) 801-359-7491 Coalition Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen Utah Council of Trout Unlimited Stonefly Society of the Wasatch Sierra Club Friends of the Earth Environmental Policy Center Environmental Defense Fund Dorothy Harvey, Chair Person |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6028qg6/1149773 |
