WSP04531

• File Number: 8220.111.A
• Description: Central Utah Participating Project
• State: UT
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 2/28/1951
• Author: USDOI-BOR
• Title: Central Utah Project A Supplement to the Colorado River Storage Project Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

SYNOPSIS

basin since development of such projects is dependent on the river
regulation that would be provided by the storage project. The factors
included in the total annual cost are listed below.

Annual eQUivalent costs

Construction costs
Operation, maintenance, and
replacement costs
Assignment of Colorado River
Storage project costs
Total annual costs

$5,522,000

757,000

445,000
16,724,000

Repayment

Irrigation water users served under the initial phase could pay an
estimated $462,710 annually toward project costs at average farm prices
prevailing from 1939 through 1944. Of this amount $185,110 would be
required for operation, maintenance, and replacements, leaving $277,600
for debt retirement. The average payment for debt retirement in the
various irrigation blocks would range from $0.32 to $2.87 an acre-foot
of water. The individual payments by the farmers would vary with the
repayment ability of the different land classes. An average of approxi-
mately $1.06 per acre-foot would be required for operation, maintenance,
and replacements although charges would vary rather widely in the various
localities.

The rate at which municipalities or industrial concerns would be
required to pay for water would be determined by the cost of providing
the supply. Users of water for municipal, industrial, and other miscel-
laneous purposes in the Bonneville Basin would pay approximately $30.00
an acre-foot for water delivered at turnout points of principal project
features. Users in eastern Duchesne County in the Uinta Basin would pay
about $24.00 an acre-foot and those in Ashley Valley would pay an esti-
mated $29.00. All municipalities and industries would pay a total of
$1,412,710 annually. Of this amount $60,860 would be required for opera-
tion, maintenance, and replacEll1ents, leaving $1,351,850 to apply on
repayment of construction costs. Additional costs for treatment of the
municipal and industrial water and for distribution of the water beyond
the points of project deliver,y would be financed privately by the muni-
cipalities, industrial users, or the water users. organization~

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Revenues frOll the sale of electric energy are expected to amount
to $1,975,950 annually. This estimate is based on a total of
361,900,000 kilowatt-hours of salable energy with 356,100,000 kilowatt-
hours of firm energy sold at 5.5 mills a kilowatt-hour, 3,600,000
kilowatt-hours of nonfinn energy sold at 3.0 mills a kilowatt-hour,.and
2,200,000 kilowatt-hours of pumping energy sold at 3.0 mills a kil~AaLt-hour.

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