Upper Weber Basin Watershed Plan
Summit County, Utah
Program information
The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), in cooperation with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District (WBWCD) as the project sponsor, is proposing to partially fund through the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (Public Law [PL] 83-566) improvements within and around the Headwaters Weber River-Upper Weber River Watershed in Summit County, Utah.
Authorized PL-566 purposes include:
- Flood prevention
- Watershed protection
- Public recreation
- Public fish and wildlife
- Agricultural water management
- Municipal and industrial water supply
- Water quality management
- Watershed structure rehabilitation
Project information
The WBWCD has identified primary goals for the project:
- Rehabilitate seven water storage facilities within the watershed and adjacent subwatersheds: Abes Lake, Anchor Lake, Cliff Lake, Fish Lake, Lovenia Lake, Sand Lake, Seymour Lake.
- Eliminate some open-channel canal and reduce flood irrigation in Oakley.
Estimated schedule
- Watershed Plan-EA
- May 2019 to March 2021
- Final Design
- January 2021 to January 2022
- Construction
- June 2022 to October 2024
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