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Show I PRESENT STATUS OF THE PROJECT The Bonneville Unit is a federal water development project designed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It involves diversion of 1$6,000 acre-feet of water from streams on the South slope of the Uinta* Mountains and transportation of this water through the Wasatch Mountains to the Bonneville Basin (Wasatch Front) primarily for use by irrigation interests„ It also involves diking portions of Utah Lake (reducing it to 2/3 of its present size) and exchanging the resulting 84,000 acre-feet of evaporative savings for the Jordanelle Reservoir storage which is keyed to M § I use. ^ Approximately 61,000 acre-feet of water are presently being diverted from the Uinta Basin through the existing Strawberry Reservoir to the Bonneville Basin for irrigation purposes.3 Portions of the Bonneville Unit are under construction. About $65,000,000 of a currently-estimated total cost of over $500,000,000 has been spent to date on this unit„3 The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental statement on the Bonneville Unit. The final environmental statement is expected to be released in January or February,, That agency is continuing with the Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit as presently constituted, in spite of considerable concern expressed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Utah Department of Natural Resources, and numerous citizen-groups and individuals* II WATER SUPPLY AND DEMAND The approximate supply of water in the Bonneville Basin Acre Feet which includes the Bear (2,130,000 A.F.) Salt Lake (2,544,000 AoF.) and Sevier River Basins (1,240,000 A.F.) totals: 8 total supply 5,914,000 The respective present and future (yr. 2020) demand for Bonneville Basin water will total: & p r e s e n t ^ ^ 3,966,000 future demand 1,163,000 total demand 5,129,000 The approximate net reserve as of 2020 will total: 8 reserve 785,000 the present trans-basin diversion through the Strawberry Reservoir and those planned under the Bonneville Unit will add about 31 to the in-basin supply of the Bonneville Basin or:* present d i v B r s i o n 61>000 Bonneville diversion 136,000 total diversiqn 197,000 The Bonnefille Unit through Utah Lake Diking ana Jordanelle Storage plus other minor in-basin de-velopment will add about 2% to the supply or about: Additional Bonneville supply 116,000 The total Bonneville Unit additions will amount to about 5* o £ t h e suPP1y o r r A Total Bonneville 313,000 |
