Show Page 8 Millard County USPS Thurs Mar 26 1987 CENTRAL UTAH WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT WORKING FOR A BETTER UTAH BY DEVELOPING WATER RESOURCES A PROGRESS REPORT BY THE CENTRAL UTAH WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT TO THE TAXPAYERS OF UTAH In November of 1985 the citizens of 12 counties in the State of Utah voted At overwhelmingly to support the continued funding of the Central Utah Project that time a strong commitment by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District District to pursue an sponsor of the project was made to the people within the of ten aggressive construction program and bring to completion within a period the Irrigation System and Bonneville Unit years the remaining major features of the to the Southern Part of the State STRAWBERRY AQUEDUCT COLLECTION Upper Stillwater Dam SYSTEM date 664 of the structural concrete for the Upper Stillwater Dam has been The program is on schedule and will be completed in 1988 Construction placed work on the North Fork Siphon Doc's and Hades Feeder pipelines and Rhoades and Wins Diversions are well under construction with these features nearing completion To STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR has been completed the Reservoir enlargement of the lake is 691400 acreft and will reach 1106500 acreft when full The filling ’criteria for the dam has been satisfied and minor construction work is ongoing on the recreational and fish stripping areas The Strawberry present volume AGRICULTURE and an early construction program expected in Irrigation planning is progressing 1988 Approximately t of water will be provided for irrigation of 167000 acres of new farmland and 213000 acres of presently irrigated land The agricultural production of these lands will be equivalent to the present agricultural in Utah The additional water will result in an increase to the production County State of Utah of approximately $13 million annually 33000 IRRIGATION TO RECEIVE 128800 ACRE-FEE- The recommended plan for the l&D System would deliver an annual water supply of t for (measured at the source of supply) including 128800 and 1600 t for municipal and industrial purpose The recommended plan would also provide flood control and recreation benefits and fish and wildlife measures Drains would be constructed on some of the lands to provide adequate drainage for agricultural purposes 130400 irrigation UTAH t LAKE WATER The l&D system would also utilize water provided by purchasing water rights in Utah Lake and by pioject return flows Water would be stored and delivered through a series of pipelines aqueducts canals and existing reservoirs FULL AND SUPPLEMENTAL SERVICE The Irrigation and Drainage (l&D) System would be located entirely in the Bonneville Basin and would extend from the terminus of the Diamond Fork Pipeline of the Diamond Fork Power System at the confluence of Diamond Fork and the Spanish Fork River southwest into the Sevier River Drainage area The project area lies within Utah Juab Millard Sanpete Sevier and Piute Counties and consists of agricultural and municipal service areas The l&D System would utilize the transbasin diversion of water from the Uinta Basin via the Diamond Fork Power System to the Bonneville Basin to provide additional service irrigation water to both full and supplemental lands in central and southern Utah Counties The Central Utah Project being built by the United States of America Department of Interior Upper Colorado Region US Bureau of Reclamation is CENTRAL UTAH WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT 355 West 1300 South ® Orem Utah 84058 |