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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Soard o. _,rector* Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson Fred Reimherr. co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Kart Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich lames Taltey Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations • Utah Council. Trout Unlimited • Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fry Fishermen *Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen *Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt take dry. Utah »Order of the Royal Coachman ^nt C.rovp. Utah »'.,! on 1445 N. 10 St. Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220 Feb. 25, 1979 Don'Proctor 414-684-3500 Plant Ecologist U.S.Forest Service Federal Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Don: My husband is expecting to come home from the hospital next weekend - nearly six months after surgery. He is not wholly recovered but is walking with crutches and will have to continue with physical therapy to get his fingers and hands functioning more fully. What an ordeal for this man! We don't know how or how much he can do in our Parish - but that remains to be seen. Don, we are keeping up our efforts on CUP. I can't assess the degree of "success" we are having but we do exist as an organized opposition. Before I can even learn about one issue, two others confront me. I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what water sources irrigate which farmlands around the Utah Lake and Delta areas. And, where the CUP comes in on all this. I am also trying to put together the implications of the proposed "Compact" between the State, the Ute Tribe, the BuRec, and Interior. This Compact is to be presented to the State legislature for some action and then to Congress for further action. Whatever action would result, would include CUP development. Anytime, you are sitting there with your feet on the desk with nothing to do and want to either write me or call me about Utah matters, or even talk into a tape, I'll be glad to hear from you. However^ I have a specific interest in writing you. (No surprise, eh?) There is an Executive Order, #11990, to protect Wetlands and another Order, #118 90 to protect Flood-plains. I need to identify which are what on the Uintas. I have gotten no response yet from the Forest Service on these issues so I would like to start looking into these myself. Is -this your bailiwick? Can you suggest broad guidelines for determining this? When is a floodplain a floodplain? In some interpretations I can see that any valley basin could be considered to be a floodplain if soil deposits from river action exist? This would mean that from a certain point down the Uinta slopes - the valley bottoms are considered flood-plains. Is this so? Where then, specifically, do floodplains start. (I know all stream drainages, so use any as examples.) |
