Reclamation Managing Water in the West: Environmental Assessment: Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company Improvement Project, Davis County, Utah

摘要

The Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company (DWCCC) has asked the Bureau of Reclamation Provo Area Office (Reclamation) to approve its proposal to use Federal funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), to make improvements to its canal system in Davis County, Utah. This Environmental Assessment (EA), prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Department of the Interior regulations implementing NEPA, analyzes and discloses the potential effects of the proposed project to the human environment. The Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company (DWCCC) was established in 1884. One of the first projects by the DWCCC was developing an earthen reservoir (East Canyon Reservoir) on East Canyon Creek in Morgan County. The East Canyon Reservoir was developed for water storage to accommodate expanding farmlands in Davis and Weber Counties. At its inception, the reservoir had a capacity of 3,850 acre-feet. In 1964, a dam was constructed to accommodate greater storage capacity. Today, the current capacity of East Canyon Reservoir is approximately 48,000 acre-feet.