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Show i 2-- D g SUNDAY 8DOTrrJl HERALD ) ECHO Soft lake jJlWt- JjflF Sot RESERVOIR City -- FRONT t1 RESERVOIR RESERVOtR ?1;X 7I A VAiiEvtl i canal f DEER CREEK MOON JOCUND r RESERVOIR ft WEST rL f Fl ENLARGEMENT 55Il3Lf Ijg " jets "J Here's General Plan of C-- tains) suffers from a shortage of water. Uintah Basin (the eastern section of the project east of the Wasatch mountains) has a surplus POWER bl nor vn CANAL 7UNNE: jV ! x.tfs. ; - 1 for- - I Bonneville Basin municipal, 3-- Project U program. The project is the only foreseeable means of providing additional water and power, which th area will need soon to prevent its normal growth from being stunted. There is no other pros pective water supply for the future. The Central Utah Project is of such magnitude that it has been planned in two parts: 1. The initial phase a unified portion that could be developed and operated independently. 2. The ultimate phase an extension of the initial phase which would more than double acreage served and quadruple power' out- - Uintah Basin water westward power and farm use. FEATURES OF PROJECT Map shows potential features of Central Utah Project, pinpointing proposed reservoirs, power plants, canals, tunnels and siphons. The project will divert Recent studies completed by two national engineering firms for the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City disclosed the sig nificant fact that Utah's capital city will be ii a critical" water supply by 1970, despite the recent addition of Deer Creek reservoir water supplies. By that year, it was predicted, the demand will exceed all available supplies. Making the survey were the firms of Headman, Ferguson, and Carollo of Phoenix, Ariz. Black and Veatch, Kansas City. More Water Needed Central Utah s water situation ON THE TAMPA RIVER Here's a view of some of the most scenic country on toe iampa certainly is no better than Salt Lake City's. Probably, if current rate River, a short distance above Mantle's Ranch in Colorado. Photo was taken during expedition of Central Utah men into the river area. (Continued on Page Pofentioroiect feature, 'f additional apparently only water source CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT Nephi geo-graph- ic OHespe 1 -- deficiency. Bonneville Basin (the western section of the project west of the Wasatch moun- eT I MONA NEPHI CANAL line. It is designed to equalize a Koo,t RESERVOIR STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR i The Central Utah Project is an ingeniously conceived plan to provide for current needs and future growth of Utah. It would involve the central section of the state from Salt Lake Valley on the north to Nephi on the south and extend eastward to the Colorado upAlCQ STARVATION the future growth of Central Utah, and of the Mountain West, is assured. If it is defeated, the limits for this area's development have already been set. That is because in the arid west, water is the governing resource. And the Colorado River Project is our best and RESERVOIR WASATCH AOUEDUCT T nT HANNA RESERVOIR ; suSo h Jjh Project. If it is approved, K lh y CASTrJMONKs , UPP?wvnTER H RESERVOIR TANNER , ( mQNA 4 HOBBLE? r.Jfto take , v '7rxmn KNOLL RESERVOIR i I LAKE VOm AQUEDUCT CI?EK V. RESERVOIR Utafe;NpiB BAY cS52? Few Central Utahns in fact few Mountain Westerners are of aware the that their fully shape future is currently being molded in the marble legislative halls of Washington. as ' this newspaper Congress is expected shortly goes to press to decide the fate of the comprehensive Colorado River Storage Sp' l DUCHE TUNNEL STRAWBERRY ftESERVOIRy CHANNEL MPROVEMENX PROVO JL - r W Colorado Rivet Project Will Assure Great Future for Central Utah Area Ay9 Utah j ' v southern slope of the Uinta Moun tains in the Uintah Basin in north eastern Utah would be intercepted They would be conveyed westerly by gravity flow through the Wa satch Mountains into the Bonne ville Basin. 4 The water would be collected by an aqueduct leading to a storage reservoir high hi the Wasatch range. From the reservoir the water would drop through a series of hy droekc-tri- c PUBLIC VOTES MERCURY w power plants before being used for irrigation, municipal and industrial purposes. Replacement water and water f additional development in the Uintah Basin would be provided by smaller developments on local streams for the initial phase. And by a major diversion from the Green River for the ultimate phase. The project primarily would serve the eastern portion of the of vater. Simply, the plan is to divert put. water westward by aqueducts The project now before Congress and tunnels to where it can consists solely of the initial phase. be used for Bonneville Basin The ultimate phase would have to municipal and farm use. En pass Congress when needed. It is route, it would be used to gen- mentioned here because the two erate power to help pay far cannot fairly be considered sepathe project. rately. 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