Thank you for supporting local journalism. Environmental Protection Agency. Once the BLM does post the document , it will initiate a day public comment period, according to spokeswoman Kim Finch.
Utah water officials regarded that proposal as a major threat to rural West Desert communities, yet appear to be comfortable with a similar, though smaller proposal brought by a fast-growing Utah county. The ground under Cedar Valley is sinking in places because the water district annually removes 7, more acre-feet each year from these aquifers than nature can replenish.
The mainline would be 40 inches in diameter and then increase to 54 inches as it nears its southern terminus. The enlarged diameter is needed to accommodate water from subsequent phases tapping Wah Wah and Hamlin valleys. The U. The order also included instructions to the water district to implement a monitoring program to ensure that no prior water rights are impaired or safe yield is exceeded.
But such safeguards mean little to Wintch. Teaming with Utah Rivers Council, Roerink launched a website, www. The EIS does not examine the possibility that water demand could drop in the face of such large price hikes. Joining the fray on Thursday was the Center for Biological Diversity , which filed a petition seeking threatened species status for the least chub, a tiny minnow whose range overlaps the basins affected by the project.
But, the affected valleys harbor four of the remaining seven wild populations of least chub. By Brian Maffly. In case you missed it. Latest from Mormon Land: The most popular new name for the Book of Mormon is eerily familiar to the current one.
