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Introduction to the Proposed Plan The Municipal and Industrial System of the Bonneville Unit is located in Salt Lake, Utah, and Wasatch Counties. The sys- tem will provide 90,000 acre-feet of water annually for municipal and industrial use in northern Utah County and Salt Lake County. and about 2.000 acre- feet for municipal and industrial use in Wasatch County. The Project will also provide 14,100 acre-feet of water for supplemen- tal irrigation use on 22,740 acres of presently irrigated land in the Heber-Francis area of Wasatch and Summit Counties, generate hydroelectric power, provide flood control. improve recreation opportunities and some esthetic values, and in- clude measures to mitigate fishery and wildlife losses. The system plan includes con- struction of J ordanelle Reser- voir and Power Plant on the Provo River; completion of Alpine and Jordan Aqueducts now under construction; and stabilization of IS existing upper Provo River reservoirs. A IS-year construction period is anticipated. The existing Strawberry Reser- voir will be the source of most of the water supply, and this supply will be exchanged through Utah Lake to Jordan- dIe Reservoir by picking up the evaporation losses and other recoveries of an estimated 105,000 acre-feet annually. Project water for municipal and industrial use will be re-- leased from Jordanelle Reser- voir into the Provo River and flow 20 miles dov.'nstream where it \....ill be diverted at the existing Olmsted Diversion Dam. The released flows would be conveyed to areas of use by project aqueducts - the Alpine Aqueduct t(l serve communities in northern Utah County and the Jordan Aqueduct to serve the metropolitan Salt Lake COUnty area. Municipal and industrial water delivered to Heber Valley will be released from Jordanelle Reservoir and exchanged for water supplied from springs. The irrigation water delivered co the Heber and Francis areas will be diverted from the river into existing canals both up- stream and downstream from the reservoir, and storage water will also be released down- stream from the reservoir, and storage water will also be re- leased downstream to replace those having rights (Q the river natural flow. A power plam will be con- structed at the base of Jordan- dIe Dam to generate electrical energy from reservoir releases. Power not required for the Bonneville Unh will be avail- able to existing power systems. Several other project features will be constructed at Jordan- die Reservoir and fishermen's access will be provided along 10 miles of the Provo River im- mediately do\..'nstream. These developments will accommodate additional water-oriemed re-- creation on the reservoir. Other project measures will be included to develop the reser- voir fishery to compensate for losses of fish and wildlife habitat.