Assessment of water resources in Utah and Nevada for a proposed electric-power generating station. [An assessment of water resources in Utah and Nevada for a proposed coal-fired power plant]
A multidiscipline coal and transportation study conducted for the California Department of Water Resources to determine the feasibility and practicality of siting a 1000-MW, coal-fired, electric-power generating station in the desert regions of southern California, southeastern Nevada, or east-central Utah by 1983 is presented. The scope of the report is limited to consideration of water resources in desert regions of Nevada and Utah and includes assessments of the availability and accessibility of enough water (15,000 acre-ft) to support the process and cooling requirements of a 1000-MW coal-fired generating station, and of the legal and administrative constraints on appropriation and use of water in both states. Part I deals with Nevada: the availability of surface water resources in the Colorado River Basin, the agricultural water rights market, groundwater administration, and selected groundwater basins that seem promising for industrial development. Part II deals with ground and surface water availability in Utah, primarily in Carbon and Emery Counties, and with the Colorado River salinity control program in eastern Utah which suggests possible collateral industrial development. Part III deals with the prospects for water transfer between California and the other two states.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 7216069
- Report Number(s):
- LA-6670-MS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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