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<br />ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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<br />The work on which this report is based was supported with funds
<br />provid~d by the State of Utah and by the U,S. Department of the Interior,
<br />Office of Water Research and Technology under P.L 92-500, Project
<br />C80322S, Grant No. 14-34-0001-8553, Investigation Period September 1,
<br />1978, to June 1, 1980.
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<br />The principal investigators on this project were C. Earl Israelsen,
<br />Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State
<br />Univer:ility, and Hydrologist, Utah Water Research Laboratory; J. Clair
<br />Batty, Professor of Mechanical El1gin~ering, Utah State UniversitYi V.
<br />Dean Adams, Research Associate Professor, Ci vi 1 and Environmental Engi-
<br />neering, and the Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University;
<br />Dennis B. George, Research Assistant Professor, Ci vi 1 and Environmental
<br />Engineering, and the Utah Water Resea:rch Laboratory, Utah State Univer-
<br />sity; Trevor C. Hughes, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental
<br />Engineering and Utah Water Research ~aboratory, Utah State University;
<br />and Alberta J. Seierstad, Rese'arch Scil.;mtist, Utah Water Research Labora-
<br />tory. Other investigators were H. C. Wang and H. P. Kuo, graduate
<br />students who utilized data from this study for theses for partial ful-
<br />fillment of requirements for MS degree$ in Mechanical Engineering at Utah
<br />State University.
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<br />Special thanks are extendea to the following: U.S. Geological
<br />Survey personnel in Salt Lake City, Utah; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Denver,
<br />Colorado, for providing many of the water quality data used in the study;
<br />the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, .Salt Lake City, Utah, for energy
<br />resources maps and publications; Mr. Salvador Renteria of Water and
<br />Power Technologies, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, for his assistance in
<br />determining realistic costs of water treatment processesi Mr. Frank
<br />Davis, Utah Power and Light Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, for verbal and
<br />written help on matters pertaining tq coal-fired power plant operation;
<br />Mr. Loren ~raigh, Tower Systems, Inc.', Tacoma, Washington, for providing
<br />information relative to the Binaty Cooling Tower (BCT) method of power
<br />plant cooling using saline water; and Resources Conservation Company,
<br />Seattle, Washington, for drawings and information. pertaining to brine
<br />concentrators. Many others contributed also by making suggestions,
<br />reviewing manuscripts, and providing encouragement during the study. To
<br />all of these the writers Bre grateful, but the writers alone are respon-
<br />sible for the content of the report, the interpretation of the various
<br />contributions, and the conclusions drawn.
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<br />The writers are also indebted to UWRL editor, Donna Falkenborg;
<br />secretaries, Barbara South, Bettv Hansen. and Annette Brunson; to
<br />senior graphics technician, Arthur L. Rivers; Bnd draftspersons Joseph F.
<br />Gardner and Susan Marsh.
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