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Addressing Utah's Water Supply Issue: A Solution for Future

Explore the challenges of Utah's future water supply by 2024 and the proposed solution of bringing water from the Colorado River to meet demand. Learn about the process, costs, benefits, and concerns involved in moving water from the Green River Drainage to the Wasatch Front using GIS technology.

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Addressing Utah's Water Supply Issue: A Solution for Future

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  1. The Water Bandits Christian Michaelson Joe Anderson

  2. UTAH’S PRESENT WATER SUPPLY

  3. PROBLEM By the year 2024 Utah’s demand for water will not be met by the present water supply

  4. SOLUTION Bring water from the Colorado River (70,000 acre*ft/year)

  5. MOVING WATER FROM GREEN RIVER DRAINAGE TO THE WASATCH FRONT Tasks • Use GIS to choose optimal alignment of the transmission system • Do hydrologic study to determine water quantities • Identify cost items for diversion and transmission facilities for pipes, pump stations, turbines, and construction • Benefits of the project • Institutional and environmental concerns • Conclusion

  6. ALIGNMENT OF THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM • Where to find data • What kind of data • How to process the data • Results of the data processing • Objectives met • Objectives not met

  7. WHERE TO FIND THE DATA • AGRC • University of Wyoming’s GIS website • USGS seamless website

  8. WHAT KIND OF DATA • Raster data because of abilities of the raster calculator • Vector data shape files converted to raster data

  9. MAKING THE MAP Using Grid Pig 8 DEM’s were into 1

  10. STUDY AREA

  11. BUILDING COST GRID POINT SYSTEM Slope x = degrees Wetlands (50 ft buffer) 50 points Other 0 points National Park 50 points Forest Service 50 points Private Land 50 points Public Land 0 points Elevation elev/100 (m) GIS chooses path with least amount of points

  12. SLOPEMAP Was created using Spatial Analyst

  13. LAND OWNER AND NATIONAL PARKS

  14. WETLANDS Wyoming Wetlands Utah Wetlands

  15. COST DIRECTION GRID

  16. HILLSHADE AND COST DISTANCE MAP

  17. The final project path – • Not exactly what we had expected.

  18. QUESTIONS?

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