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<br />. <br /> <br />Bonneville Basin for use along the Wasatch Front; as other Bonneville Unit features are <br />completed these diversions and subsequent releases to the Bonneville Basin will increase. The <br />capacity of Strawberry Reservoir was enlarged from 283,000 acre-feet to 1,106,500 acre-feet <br />with the construction of Soldier Creek Dam on the Strawberry River. A small amount of the <br />water stored in the reservoir is released for fishery purposes to facilitate instream flow <br />requirements in the Strawberry River, but most is, and will be used for transbasin diversion to the <br />Bonneville Basin. <br /> <br />Upper Stillwater Reservoir, constructed on Rock Creek, serves as a regulating reservoir at the <br />head of the 36,8 mile-long Strawberry Aqueduct. It provides regulatory storage during the high <br />runoff period for later diversion to the aqueduct and storage in Strawberry Reservoir, <br />Construction ofthis reservoir nearly destroyed a premier tribal fishing reach in Rock Creek <br />below the dam. The 1992 Settlement requires tbe maintenance of a small instream flow below <br />the dam. Currant Creek Reservoir diverts Currant Creek and five tributaries into the Strawberry <br />Aqueduct. <br /> <br />Storage in Strawberry Reservoir supports extensive development in the Bonneville Basin, The <br />M&I System provides municipal and industrial water to Salt Lake, Utah, and Wasatch Counties <br />and supplemental irrigation water to Wasatch and Summit Counties. Jordanelle Dam and <br />Reservoir are major features of the M&I System. Water is developed by storing Provo River <br />flows that historically have flowed into Utah Lake. Utah Lake water will be replaced by releases <br />of project water from Strawberry Reservoir to Utah Lake, project return flows to the lake, water <br />right acquisitions in Utah Lake, and flows that are surplus to Utah Lake rights. <br /> <br />In order to provide adequate water supply for Jordanelle Reservoir, located on the Provo River, <br />21,900 acre-feet annually is "exchanged" from Utah Lake to Jordanelle Reservoir. An additional <br />74,900 acre-feet may be required if the SFN System is not constructed. This exchange simply <br />means that water which formerly flowed to Utah Lake is now impounded on the Provo River at <br />Jordanelle Reservoir. In order to facilitate this exchange the District is obligated to release water <br />from Strawberry Reservoir down Diamond Fork and back to Utah Lake, thereby, replacing water <br />now stored in Jordanelle. <br /> <br />The Diamond Fork System provides the conveyance facilities for the trans basin diversion of <br />Duchesne River Basin water stored in Strawberry Reservoir to the Bonneville Basin. The Syar <br />Tunnel and the Sixth Water Aqueduct are used to deliver water from Strawberry Reservoir to <br />Diamond Fork Creek, a tributary of the Spanish Fork River. Water delivered through the Syar <br />Tunnel and Sixth Water Aqueduct will flow through the Diamond Fork Aqueduct to Utah Lake <br />and potentially to irrigate lands in southern Utah and eastern Juab counties; 11,200 acre-feet is to <br />be delivered for M&I uses in southern Utah county; while 22,300 acre-feet is conveyed to Utah <br />Lake for the Jordanelle exchange. The SFN System's main Conveyance Aqueduct will connect <br />directly to the Diamond Fork Pipeline. The SFN System is still in the planning stage. <br /> <br />31 <br />