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<br />SYNOPSIS <br /> <br />unl&ss an additional sourc~ of water were assured for the future. As the <br />Central Utah project would provide the additional source of water, its <br />authorization would justify immediate leasing of the district's reserve <br />water for use outside of the district. <br /> <br />Initial Phase of Project <br /> <br />In the initial phase of the project only Rock Creek and Uinta Basin <br />streams west of Rock Creek would be diverted into the Bonneville Basin <br />where development would be limited to areas between Salt Lake City and <br />Nephi. Initial phase development in the Uinta Basin would include the <br />Jensen, Vernal, and Upalco areas and lands along the Duchesne River. <br /> <br />The initial phase of the project would provide for the irrigation of <br />2$,500 acres of new land and 132,000 acres now irrigated but in need of <br />more water. Part of the water exported to the Bonneville Basin would be <br />acquired by exchanges involving water for 42,600 acres of land in the <br />Uinta Basin, more than half of which is owned by Indians or has been <br />acquired from them. These exchanges may result in benefits to the Uinta <br />Basin lands through improved water regulation. Available data do not <br />permit an evaluation of such benefits; conseq".ently, they are not claimed <br />in this report but they will be determined and evaluated in the pre- <br />construction planning. The initial phase would also provide 48,$00 acre- <br />feet of water annually for municipal, industrial, and other miscellaneous <br />uses. Initial phase power plants with an installed capacity of 61,000 <br />kilowatts would generate approximately 373 million kilowatt-hours of <br />electric energy annually. Approximately 2.2 million kilowatt-hours of <br />energy would be required by the project for irrigation and drainage <br />pumping. Energy produced at Central utah project power plants would be <br />firmed by interconnections with plants of the Colorado River Storage <br />project. <br /> <br />Project Works <br /> <br />Under the initial phase one of the two parallel aqueducts comprising <br />the western 36.8 miles of the Strawberry aqueduct would be constructed. <br />This aqueduct would intercept flows of Rock Creek, Hades Creek, Wolf Creek, <br />West Fork of the Duchesne River, Currant Creek, Layout Creek, and Water <br />Hollow. Reservoirs to regulate inflow to the aqueduct would be provided <br />on Rock Creek (Upper Stillwater), West Fork of the Duchesne River (Vat), <br />and Currant Creek (Currant Creek). <br /> <br />The Strawberry Reservoir would be enlarged through construction of <br />the Soldier Creek Dam. The dam would be constructed in the initial phase <br />to the full height required for the comprehensive development. One-stage <br />construction to ultimate capacity would cost considerably less than <br /> <br />$ <br />