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Show 0& Response: The proposed plan is the result of many years of coordination, consultation, and planning among Federal, State, and community agencies, civic organizations, and individuals. The Bureau believes that the coordinated local planning effort did in fact result in a plan that recognizes existing legal and physical constraints and uses the available sources of water supply to meet the legitimate future water needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way. 7. Comment: It appears that the Jordanelle Reservoir, a major component of the proposed project, would have several major water quality problems. By looking at the nutrient data made available and making comparisons to similar reservoirs already constructed, it seems quite likely that the 31 Construction of the Bonneville Unit M&I System would considerably change the streamflows in the Provo River, Strawberry River, Rock Creek, the West Fork of the Duchesne River, and Currant Creek. The aquatic life and fisheries would be adversely affected in these streams according to information in the Bonneville Unit EIS and the Bonneville Unit M&I System i| EIS. .; Response: j The Bureau of Reclamation has complied with the National Environmental Policy Act in evaluating the impacts of the project on the Strawberry River, Rock Creek, the West Fork of the Duchesne River, and Currant Creek through the Bonneville Unit Final Environmental Statement (INT FES 73-42, filed August 2, 1973). The impacts on these streams would result from the construction and operation of the Strawberry Collection 1 System of the Bonneville Unit, and thus are not evaluated in the Municipal and Industrial System DES. A recent streamflow study on the fishery habitat of the streams affected by the Strawberry Collection j| System has been completed cooperatively by the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Utah | Division of Wildlife Resources (Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 1979). The study, requested by the Governor of Utah in an effort to evaluate the various flow alternatives, was submitted to him on May 7, 1979. | As depicted in Figure C-3, the Provo River would undergo substantial improvements in fishery habitat in some segments, namely in the segments between Jordanelle Reservoir and Deer Creek Reservoir and below the Olmsted diversion. No attempt has been made to claim that reservoirs would constitute fishery mitigation for stream losses. See Section C-7 of the FES for an expanded discussion on the fishery impacts of the ,; project. 8. Comment: |
