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Show Big Cottonwood B: Improve Water Quality Without Sewer Line Salt Lake City could work with the U.S. Forest Service and Salt Lake County to diminish the impact on Big Cottonwood Canyon from various uses in a manner that would assure that future water quality is maintained in its current status or improved. Water quality in Big Cottonwood Canyon has deteriorated slightly in the past 10 years. Without a sewer line, the only feasible means of improving or maintaining water quality is through close watershed management scrutiny and/or diminishing or altering current use patterns in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Actions that could be considered apart from construction of a sewer line include improving sanitary conditions at recreation sites, _cabins, and, potentially, commercial establishments. Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, and the U.S. Forest Service would need to increase its monitoring and regulatory activities to identify major sources of water quality deterior~tion and take appropriate corrective action. A program of this type has been initiated. This may require the enhancement of existing budgets to provide the necessary staff to • undertake this increased effort. In addition, the City could consider, in cooperation with the Forest Service, limiting access to Big Cottonwood Canyon for activities and uses that are determined to be major causes of water quality deterioration. Big Cottonwood C: Increase Use Without Sewer Line Salt Lake City could allow e~panded use in the Canyon beyond those already permitted, without the development of a sewer line, through additional water sales contracts. Salt Lake City would have to consider any such expanded use in the Canyon consistent with an objective of maintaining high water quality for existing culinary uses. If Salt Lake City were to consider supporting increased use in Big Cottonwood Canyon, the City would need to couple the increased use with intensified enforcement of existing water quality standards. Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the Forest Service and Salt Lake County, would have to institute a detailed stream monitoring program for water quality and identify Al.3 |
