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CUP could be boon and bane to Utah County
Benefits, hurdles of plan to add 5 pipelines detailed
According to the recently released final environmental impact study produced for the U.S. Department of the Interior by the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, the proposed Utah Lake System project can expect to receive about $460 million in federal funds and local cost-sharing money to construct five pipelines and two power facilities in Utah County.
But along with the jobs, increased fishing opportunities and extra water for Utah, Salt Lake and Wasatch counties, the preferred plan is expected to hurt crop rotation, create some eyesores and degrade water quality in the Spanish Fork River.
It would probably bring a significant increase in water rates as well.
However, the increased flow which will be 192 percent higher in the Provo River would expand and improve the recreational fishing area and help the endangered June sucker fish that is dependent on spawning grounds in the local river.
The power generation facilities would be put at the Sixth Water Flow Control Structure and at the Upper Diamond Fork Flow Control Structure.
Under the preferred option there would be:
- A Spanish Fork Canyon pipeline
- A Spanish Fork/Santaquin pipeline
- A Santaquin/Mona Reservoir pipeline
- A Mapleton/Springville lateral pipeline
- A Spanish Fork/Provo Reservoir canal pipeline
Forty-three acres of rotational crop land would be temporarily impacted and 15.4 acres of orchard property permanently affected.
Slope cuts, site grading and new structures would change the appearance of the Diamond Fork and Sheep Creek areas.
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