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. "''''',. - SYNOPSIS ample water for irrigation. Most of the stream run-off, however, is uncontrolled and as summer progresses the supply diminishes below tie requirements of the land. The Moon Lake and Midview Reservoirs con- structed by the Bureau of Reclamation to a combined capacity of 55,300 acre-feet, together with many small privately and Indian-owned reser- voirs, provide valuable but insufficient regulation of water resources. With further regulation of water resources, agriculture, the principal enterprise, could continue to expand. Industrial development based on deposits of petroleum, other hydrocarbons, and phosphates, would be encouraged. Development of the petroleum industry is now getting under way. Several oil wells recently have been brought into ccmmercial pro- duction. The Comprehensive Plan When fully developed the Central utah project would provide a full irrigation water supply for 200,000 acres of new land. It would also provide a supplemental Supply for 239,900 acres now inadequately irri- gated. It would provide 48,800 acre-feet of water to meet foreseeable demands for municipal, industrial, and other miscellaneous purposes, and it could provide additional water for these purposes as future requirements developed. Project power plants tentatively planned would have an installed capacity of 249,000 kilowatts and would generate almost 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electric energy annually. Additional power potentialities exist and as investigations of the ultimate phase are con- tinued the planned capacity of the power plants may increase materially. '.' '.' The flow of all important streams on the scuth slope of the Uinta Mountains as far east as Brush Creek would be intercepted by the poten- tial Strawberry aqueduct and conveyed to the Strawberry Reservoir in the Wasatch Mountains. The flow of Carter Creek on the Uintas' northern slope would be brought to the southern slope for conveyance to the reser- voir. The aqueduct, 110 miles long I would consist largely of tunnels through mountain ridges separating the parallel streams. Inflow to the tunnels wculd be regulat ed in small reservoirs on the mcuntain streams. The western 36.8 miles of the aqueduct, extending frcm Rock Creek to the Strawberry ReserVoir, would consist of two parallel bores. Power devel- opments would be made on the various streams where practicable. of " ,< ,.; i ~; !?: <,:, .~ Strawberry Reservoir, a feature of the Strawberry Valley reclamation project, would be enlarged from its present capacity of 283,000 acre-feet to a capacity of 1,370,000 acre-feet by construction of Soldier Creek Dam on Strawberry River 9 miles belOW the existing dam. The enlarged reser- voir would regulate (1) water delivered through the aqueduct, estimated to average 563,000 acre-feet annually; (2) additional water developed on Strawberry River between the existing and new dams, estimated to average 18,000 acre-feet annually; and (3) the present Strawberry Valley project "