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Utah's tri-county automation project

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dc.contributor.authorHansen, Roger D., author
dc.contributor.authorHilton, Arlen, author
dc.contributor.authorHumphrey, Jay Mark, author
dc.contributor.authorBerger, Bret, author
dc.contributor.authorU.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-31T11:54:37Z
dc.date.available2020-03-31T11:54:37Z
dc.date.issued2004-10
dc.descriptionPresented during the USCID water management conference held on October 13-16, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The theme of the conference was "Water rights and related water supply issues."
dc.description.abstractA This paper discusses an ongoing technology project in the tri-county area of central Utah (Carbon, Emery, and Sanpete Counties; see Figure 1). The three counties share the same watershed (Wasatch Plateau) even though Carbon and Emery are in the Green/Colorado River drainage and Sanpete is in the Sevier River drainage. The county boundaries roughly equate to river basin boundaries: Emery-San Rafael River; Carbon-Price River; and Sanpete-San Pitch River. There are 13 small trans-basin diversions that export water from Emery and Carbon Counties to Sanpete County. There is a Federal water project in each county and Colorado River salinity projects in Emery and Carbon. And there is a myriad of contentious issues developing including: protecting and quantifying water rights, a leaky reservoir basin which has become an unintentional trans- basin diversion, a proposed new trans-basin diversion which is in the final planning stages, quantifying the impacts of the Federal salinity projects, conjunctive use of Federal and non-Federal facilities, and addressing fish and wildlife issues. Part of the solution to avoiding future conflicts in the tri-county area involves increased real-time monitoring and control, and using this information to operate both Federal and non-Federal facilities in an optimal fashion to the benefit of all. The existing (but still evolving) Emery County real-time monitoring system and real-time web site (www.ewcd.org) are demonstrating what is possible (Emery WCD and Reclamation, 2003). Officials in all three counties are indicating strong support for a multi-county system which would cover the entire area. Emery is so committed to the concept that, several years ago, the county raised its ad valorem tax to provide base-level funding for their portion of the project (Hansen and Berger, 2003).
dc.description.sponsorshipProceedings sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Central Utah Project Completion Act Office and the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/201650
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofAg Water Conservation Policy
dc.relation.ispartofWater rights and related water supply issues, October 13-16, 2004, Salt Lake City, Utah
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dc.sourceContained in: Water rights and related water supply issues, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 13-16, 2004, http://hdl.handle.net/10217/46435
dc.titleUtah's tri-county automation project
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