Correspondence on Bonneville Unit of Central Utah Project

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# *» SIERRA CLUB LEGAL DEFENSE FUND,INC. by Ansel Adams in This is the American Earth JAMES W. MOORMAN Executive Director BARRY A. FISHER JOHN D. HOFFMAN LAURENS H. SILVER Staff Attorneys, San Francisco H. ANTHONY RUCKEL Staff Attorney, Denver February 5, 1974 Mr. Curtis Oberhansly Twelve Exchange Place Salt Lake City, UT 84111 Re: Central Utah Project Dear Curt: The following paragraphs set forth my ideas regarding our Fish and Wildlife people, more specifically, their depositions. It is my feeling you should set them to be taken fairly soon. The first thing they must give us is the environmental harm to Cur rant" Creek" due to construction of the__damr Their "testimony should h±t_JLmpact of rejucH^i~bT"stream TLow, and, hopefully, it woular~showthat reduction severely^i^gacts the f isheryA^^sjojn^ca.,^ This should be followecTby teslsimonyl-igS impact through use of minimum flows, although I Think it would be wise if we could get testimony tcT~the effect that minimum flows arejust__that, the minimum necessary to'preserve any. kindZof~£Lshery "and do~not~achieve~ the^ previous excellent fishery quality. JfLthe wj^tness^^knows, we would want himJ^JjgjonflrmJtto has been provided below Currant Creek^D"ST^It^^e^witness_dcr^ . iotTTcriow, you may oe able to determine by a check or the LIS as to^whether or notJthe~ information is contained there. If so, it can probably be used with the witness. In addition to stream fishery problems, the witnesses should testify to the impact of inundation_o^J200 plus"acres ot sighiticant wildlife habitat through impounonient~ofthe reservoir behind the dam. The second principal category would appear to me to Jbejbhe harm experienced by the^esE^oF-the streams of the Strawberry AalIeQ^ic^~TysterrirrThis sliouldTobviously, repeat the minimum flow San Francisco: 3 11 California Street, Suite 311, 94104; Telephone [phone] Denver: 508 Majestic Bldg., 209 16th Street, 80202; Telephone [phone]