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<br />on21~9 <br /> <br />site. This site is located 3.5 miles northwest of Bonanza. The corridor will <br /> <br /> <br />provide for a 138 KV line, will be 5.5 miles long, and 60 feet wide. An <br /> <br /> <br />alternate power line corridor also shown in figure 9 will connect to the existing <br /> <br /> <br />Moon Lake Electric substation northeast of Bonanza. <br /> <br />A substation will require a 75 foot x 100 foot parcel of land near the <br /> <br />dam. <br /> <br />E. Recreation <br /> <br />The recreation potential of White River Reservoir has been appraised by <br /> <br /> <br />the Utah State Division of Parks and Recreation. In a January 23, 1978 letter <br /> <br /> <br />from the Division (copy attached) an "Assessment of Recreation Potential and <br /> <br /> <br />Needs - White River Reservoir and Vicinity" describes the reservoir, its <br /> <br /> <br />location, anticipated population growth in the area of potential users, growth <br /> <br /> <br />in outdoor recreation, assumptions with regard to future use of the reservoir <br /> <br /> <br />and recommendations for future recreation development of the reservoir. <br /> <br /> <br />In a more recent letter dated January 13, 1979, (copy attached) the Division <br /> <br /> <br />has reaffirmed their intentions to develop and operate the recreation resource <br /> <br /> <br />at the reservoir. <br /> <br />F. Bonanza Water Supply <br /> <br />Bonanza is the home of the American Gilsonite Company. Its mining and <br />refining operation there employs about 200 people and about 10-15 families reside <br />at the plant site. The company has water rights to 4.2cfs in White River. It <br />has 25 shallow wells (each 40-50 feet deep) spaced randomly and adjacent to <br />White River downstream for about a mile from the Watson Bridge from which they <br />pump water from the gravels underneath the river bed. The pipeline from the <br />pumping plant to a 3 million gallon reservoir located near Bonanza is 8 inches <br />in diameter, with 700 feet of head. The water now used is treated for iron, <br />sulfur oxide and bacteria. It is also high in salt content averaging 800 ppm. <br /> <br /> <br />The plant superintendent, Mr. Dick Dewey, described the present cyclic <br /> <br /> <br />operation of their water wells as follows: During low flow periods the river <br /> <br /> <br />deposits silt along the bed adjacent to the shallow wells that partially seal <br /> <br /> <br />off water entering them. In the high spring runoff and during summer flash floods, <br /> <br /> <br />the silt is flushed downstream and water can then again enter the wells. With a <br /> <br /> <br />reservoir inundating the wells under project conditions, this flushing action <br /> <br /> <br />would cease. It would then appear that the most feasible method for maintaining <br /> <br />- 19 - <br /> <br />