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Strawberry Valley Project
State: Utah
Region: Upper Colorado Basin Region
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General
The Strawberry Valley Project comprises about 45,000 irrigable acres centered around Spanish Fork, Utah. This project provided the first large-scale transmountain diversion from the Colorado River Basin to the Bonneville Basin. It also was one of the earliest Bureau of Reclamation projects to develop hydroelectric energy. Project features include Strawberry Dam and Reservoir, Indian Creek Dike, Strawberry Tunnel, two diversion dams, three powerplants, a main canal system, and a portion of the lateral system. The remainder of the distribution system was privately constructed. Two of the powerplants were constructed by the water users association.
History
Settlers began irrigating the lower part of the Utah Valley on the south side of the Spanish Fork River and the area adjacent to Utah Lake on the north side of the river prior to 1860. The low summer flow of the river limited development of the irrigable land, and the need for supplemental storage was evident long before 1900.
Construction
Excavation of the Strawberry Tunnel was started in 1906 and completed in 1912. Construction of the Spanish Fork Diversion Dam, Strawberry Power Canal, and Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant was completed in 1908. Electric power from these facilities was used at the Strawberry Tunnel and Dam during construction. Construction of Indian Creek Dike and Feeder Canal was completed in September 1912 and Strawberry Dam was finished in 1913. The High Line Canal and distribution system of approximately 77 miles, of which about 62 miles are concrete lined, was completed in 1916 and the Springville-Mapleton Lateral was completed in 1918. The entire project was completed by June 30, 1922. Before 1900, the low summer flow of the river limited the development of the irrigable lands. Since 1922, all of the reservoir basin supply has been used for the benefit of the project. As a result of an adequate supply of water to the lands, stabilized crop returns and improvement in the economic conditions of the area have been realized. Principal crops are alfalfa, corn, small grains, fruit, and some vegetables. Strawberry Reservoir has a surface area of 8,400 acres at total capacity and will double when the new reservoir, resulting from construction of Soldier Creek Dam, is filled. The enlarged reservoir will cover 17,160 acres at maximum capacity. A recreation master plan has been prepared for the enlarged reservoir. Initial development will consist of two major recreation sites, several fisherman access points, and a new visitor station. The major recreation sites will be developed at Soldier Creek Bay and at Strawberry Bay. The sites will provide about 700 camping units which include flush toilets, electric power, shelters, tables, grills, fire circles, and a sewage collection and treatment system. Boat ramps, marinas, parking, and fish cleaning stations at each major site also are being planned. Administration of fish and wildlife activities as well as boating regulation will be the responsibility of the state of Utah. It is anticipated that the quality fishery, so popular at Strawberry Reservoir, will continue to be maintained. The reservoir has long been one of Utah`s finest fisheries and is the primary source of eggs for native cutthroat trout used in fish hatcheries throughout the State. From three small generating plants having a total capacity of 1,550 kilowatts, the project has realized revenues which have assisted materially in the repayment of construction costs. Generation and transmission of power on the project are handled entirely by the Strawberry Water Users Association. In 1847, the first Mormon settlers entered the present state of Utah. They entered a part of the Great Basin Desert, arid and uninviting. The Mormons spread out across most of the land they called Deseret, some going to the southern Utah Valley. They soon began farming the few tracts of arable land in the valley that received sufficient water. As early as 1847, settlers near Utah Lake first diverted the nearby rivers and streams for irrigation. The close-knit cooperation among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints provided a basis for Utah citizens to work closely, and fairly easily together on subsequent projects. The tradition of cooperation led to the relative smoothness of the negotiations by the citizens of Utah and Wasatch Counties with Reclamation in creating the Strawberry Valley Project. The Strawberry Valley Project, part of Reclamation`s Upper Colorado Region, is located in Utah and Wasatch Counties, in central and eastern Utah respectively. The project is centered in Utah County near Spanish Fork, Utah, including the Spanish Fork River. In Wasatch County the project includes Strawberry Dam and Reservoir, located approximately 29 miles southeast of Provo. Wasatch County also includes Indian Creek Dike, the Currant Creek Feeder Canal, Indian Creek Canal, Trail Hollow Canal, Indian Creek Crossing Diversion Dam, and most of the Strawberry Tunnel, that diverts water from Wasatch County to Utah County through the Wasatch Divide.1 The western most section of the Strawberry Tunnel was located in Utah County. Utah County contains other major features of the Strawberry Valley Project including the Strawberry Power Canal, the Springville-Mapleton Lateral, the Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant, the Spanish Fork Diversion Dam, the Lower Spanish Fork Powerplant, the Payson Powerplant, and the High Line Canal. Reclamation and the Strawberry Water Users` Association built the project to irrigate greater amounts of arable land in southern Utah Valley.2 Utah Valley, in Utah County, Utah is located at the eastern edge of the Great Basin Desert. Utah Valley remains very dry and ill-suited for agriculture without irrigation. When the Mormons first settled Utah Valley in 1847, water proved a very scarce commodity. As Utah Valley`s population grew, the need for more farm land increased. In 1860, Utah Valley settlers began diverting the waters of Spanish Fork River, and smaller streams, for irrigation. However, this supplied sufficient water only during the heavy runoff months of May and June. Afterwards, water levels dropped severely, providing only enough water to irrigate about 12,000 acres of farmland. Occasional heavy snowfall seasons provided adequate water for 30,000 acres of farmland throughout the growing season, but such years occurred infrequently.3 As a result of the extremely limited water supply, only a small percentage of land in Utah Valley could be farmed with any certainty of adequate water during the entire growing season. Continuing population increases in Utah Valley, and the lack of sufficient water for arable lands, the need for supplemental water from storage facilities became apparent long before 1900. Utah Valley desperately needed reliable sources of water.4 Around the turn of the century Utah State Senator Henry Gardner and John S. Lewis, visited Strawberry Valley, in Wasatch County, in the upper Colorado Basin; on a camping trip. During the trip they developed an idea for a reservoir in the valley, and a system to transport water through the Wasatch Divide, that separated the Colorado Basin from the Great Basin. Officials of the Spanish Fork East Bench Irrigation and Manufacturing Company investigated the project and in August of 1902, filed for reservoir purposes on the Strawberry River, and for power purposes on the Spanish Fork River.5 The group hired an engineer who conducted preliminary surveys and made water filings. The resulting report showed the project required more money than the company, or even all the citizens of the valley could afford. Utah Valley residents appointed a committee requesting a Reclamation investigation of the project`s feasibility. The committee asked that construction begin as soon as possible, if the project proved feasible.6 Reclamation carried out preliminary investigations in 1903 and 1904. Reclamation Engineers Frank C. Kelsey and George Swendson, and Halen & Halen, a company hired by Reclamation, performed the initial surveys. On October 2, 1905, a board of engineers determined the project was feasible.7 On December 15, 1905, the Strawberry Valley Project received approval provided that: conflicts of water rights claims were resolved; enough acreage was secured for irrigation to reimburse Reclamation on the cost of construction; `and that a clean-cut feasible reclamation project, free from all complications of any kind or character be secured before a dollar is spent on construction.`8 A special clause in the Reclamation Act of 1902 allowed the Utahans in Utah Valley to pool enough land to receive project approval. The clause allowed residence `in the neighborhood`, instead of residence on the land, as required by the Reclamation Act. The provision was inserted in the act especially for Utah projects because of the settlement pattern of Utah farming towns, in which many farmers did not live on their farm land.9 The location chosen for Strawberry Dam and Reservoir presented some social problems. The reservoir area occupied land belonging to the Uintah Indian Reservation. Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, who pressed for a Reclamation project in his state, pressured Congress to remove the reservoir area from the Reservation land. Congress followed his wishes and turned the land over to Reclamation.10 On March 6, 1906, work was authorized to begin by force account and contracts. Initial work included repairing and extending the wagon road from a shipping point on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway line to both ends of the Strawberry Tunnel, construction of buildings for men and animals at the D.& R.G.W. railhead, and the opening of both tunnel portals for bidders to determine the nature of the materials encountered in excavating the tunnel. A board of engineers convened in Salt Lake City to open bids for the construction of the tunnel. The board received no bids and recommended construction of the tunnel by force account.11 Secretary of the Interior Ethan A. Hitchcock approved the board`s recommendation, and Reclamation authorized force account work on September 14, 1906, with certain conditions. The conditions directed the supervising engineer to proceed at a rate he considered expedient to deal with any difficulties encountered. Reclamation authorized him to purchase tools and labor necessary for excavating the tunnel without the construction of an expensive power plant. Reclamation was to re-advertise the excavation to bidders around May 1, 1907.12 In 1906 the Spanish Fork irrigation companies disbanded, resulting in a repayment contract between Reclamation and the Strawberry Water Users` Association13. Water travels a great distance and through many structures of the Strawberry Valley Project to reach the farms of southern Utah County. The Strawberry River feeds directly into Strawberry Reservoir. The Currant Creek Feeder Canal, built in the 1930s by the Strawberry Water Users` Association, drains water from Currant Creek into Co-op Creek, which in turn flows into the Strawberry River. The Indian Creek Feeder Canal and the Trail Hollow Canal divert water from their namesake creeks. The Trail Hollow Canal drains into the Indian Creek Canal, which drains into the reservoir. The Indian Creek Crossing Diversion Dam diverts the water from Indian Creek into the canal.14 Water from the reservoir flows through Strawberry Tunnel into Six Water Canyon. The water then travels to the Diamond Fork River, then flows into the Spanish Fork River. The Spanish Fork Diversion Dam pushes the water into the Strawberry Power Canal, feeding the Upper and Lower Spanish Fork Powerplants. The High Line Canal and the Springville-Mapleton Lateral divert water from the Power Canal and transport it across farmland southeast of Utah Lake. The canal and lateral send the water into the existing irrigation system of the southern Utah Valley farms.15 Actual construction began in August 1906, when work commenced on the Strawberry Tunnel under Supervising Engineer Louis C. Hill. James Lytel and George Swendson were Project Engineers. Later records indicate Lytel became the sole Project Engineer as the project progressed. The construction proceeded as a mixture of Reclamation force account work and contract work.16 Reclamation constructed three roads to provide access to construction sites in Wasatch County. The Diamond Fork Road extended and improved an existing wagon road, from the Denver and Rio Grande Western line to the West Portal of the Strawberry Tunnel. Reclamation constructed it in 1906, and crews extended the road to the East Portal later in the year. Built in 1911, Horse Creek Road travelled from Diamond Fork Road to Strawberry Dam. High Line Road stretched from Indian Creek Dike to the East Portal of Strawberry Tunnel.17 Reclamation established a temporary settlement, Diamond Switch, at the project`s shipping point on the Denver and Rio Grande Western rail line. After Reclamation graded the site, the Denver and Rio Grande installed a ten car siding. Reclamation built three dwellings at the site including the clerk`s residence, an office with guest rooms, and a mess hall. Three corrugated iron storehouses housed cement, equipment, hardware and other supplies. A bunkhouse housed laborers at Diamond Switch and workers on their way to the Strawberry Valley construction sites. Other buildings at Diamond Switch included a hay barn and a barn for sixteen horses.18 Excavation began on the West Portal of the Strawberry Tunnel in late August 1906, with one work shift. It increased to two shifts in the middle of September. Reclamation built a large camp to house 75 men at the West Portal of the tunnel during September, October, and November, 1906. Reclamation also constructed a small powerhouse with gasoline generators, to provide electricity for the Adams drills initially used in the tunnel excavation.19 Though the Adams drills proved unsatisfactory for the work, the excavation continued with their use through the winter of 1906-07. Reclamation ventilated the tunnel by drawing stale air out through a 14 inch pipe. This in turn drew fresh air into the excavation. Reclamation crews installed 8 x 8 inch timbers supported the tunnel. These timbers continued for 1,500 feet. Electric locomotives hauled the excavated material out of the tunnel in `muck cars.` The muck consisted mostly of sandstone and limestone in broken strata that made drilling and shooting difficult.20 Construction continued until July 20, 1907, when work stopped for an indefinite period due to lack of funds. In the meantime, a study showed the tunnel drilling could continue more cheaply with hydro-electric power, and Project Engineer James Lytel recommended a hydro-electric plant on the Spanish Fork River. This received approval and preparations for work began. During the shutdown, Reclamation discharged all tunnel workers, closed the West Portal camp, and left two watchmen to provide security for the empty camp. Reclamation furloughed F.W. Cater, the tunnel`s Construction Engineer, following the shut down, and reinstated him December 11, 1908, when work resumed.21 During suspension of construction on the tunnel, crews rushed to finish both the hydro-electric powerplant on the Spanish Fork River, and the power canal providing it with water. Work began on the Power Canal on May 1, 1907. Reclamation cut the labor force down on October 1 of the same year. The smaller labor force continued on the canal through the winter of 1907-08. Excavation finished in the spring of 1908, and the laborers began laying the concrete.22 The Power Canal`s route travelled it through rough country making construction fairly difficult. The Denver and Rio Grande right of way further hampered construction by forcing Reclamation to build tunnels and deep cuts to bypass the right of way. Many of the construction crews had more experience in railroad work than in building canals and did not understand canal operations well. Reclamation brought in a superintendent and some foremen, experienced in canal work, to help the inexperienced crews. As stated earlier, Reclamation first let water into the canal on December 13, 1908. Both the canal and the Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant began operation on December 15, 1908. Water flowed through the canal on December 13, 1908. Work crews completed the powerplant on January 10, 1909.23 In September 1908, a crew went to the West Portal to build a substation capable of furnishing power for compressed air drills. On December 9, 1908 construction resumed on the Strawberry Tunnel. The crew temporarily continued with the inefficient Adams drills. On January 13, 1909, with hydroelectric power available, one shift began using three and one quarter inch Sullivan Air Rock drills. A second shift started work on January 18, and the third shift began working on March 15 of the same year.24 While drilling on December 28, 1910, workers encountered water flow of about seven second feet. The water slowed tunnel construction and made working conditions very disagreeable. The continuous flow of water forced workers to wear raincoats and boots, but the equipment did little good. Workers constantly left the tunnel soaked to the skin from working their whole shift in water. The work crew began lining the tunnel with concrete in October 1910.25 Work crews opened operations on the East Portal of the tunnel September 20, 1911. Hand drilling on the actual tunnel excavation began October 14, but crews switched to air drills in November. They mostly encountered water permeable sandstone in drilling, and water became the major problem for work crews. They had to pump water out of the tunnel because the excavation from the east portal travelled down hill. Water caused delays when the pumps occasionally ceased operating, and the tunnel flooded.26 Work continued on the tunnel through 1911 and early 1912. The drilling crews finally broke through on June 20, 1912 at 7:00 A.M. The survey work proved excellent; the joint of the 19,091 foot long shaft was only slightly more than two inches off. Laborers continued lining the tunnel with concrete until completion on December 13, 1912.27 The West Portal Camp sat at an elevation of 7,650 feet, and during the winter of 1908-09, 300 inches of snow fell on the camp. Of that total, 91 inches fell in January alone. Because of these conditions, the West Portal Camp contained certain necessities for the workers living there. There were a commissary, a mercantile store with a small stock of merchandise, a boarding house, and a pool room. A hospital carried a minimum of instruments and medicine, primarily for injuries and the general health of the men, and a doctor stayed at the camp at all times. Reclamation also established branches of these operations in the camps at the East Portal and Strawberry Dam.28 When completed the Strawberry Tunnel extended for 3.8 miles. It had a capacity of 600 cubic feet per second. The tunnel was seven feet wide and nine feet high with an arched ceiling. The entire structure was lined with concrete. Strawberry Tunnel diverts water from Strawberry Reservoir to Diamond Fork River. Diamond Fork River flows into Spanish Fork River to Spanish Fork Diversion Dam.29 Work crews began excavation for the Spanish Fork Diversion Dam in October 1907. Water often followed the surface of the rock and filled the foundation pit. A lack of journeyman carpenters created more problems in completing the proper form work for the concrete. The Spanish Fork Dam was an ogee weir constructed of rubble concrete. Crews hauled sand and gravel for the concrete from a gravel pit one and a half miles away. The rubble portion of the concrete mixture contained rocks, one to three cubic feet in size, excavated from the site. The rock eventually comprised 24 percent of the total volume. Work crews finished the dam on July 1, 1908.30 Work commenced on the Strawberry Dam camp and stripping of the dam site on June 18, 1911. Laborers excavated the corewall trench through the rest of the year, though they did not finish it before the December 1911. The crews poured the concrete for the corewall up to the elevation of the river bed, as much as the excavation allowed, before cold weather forced work to stop. At the south end of the dam site workers established a crushing and concrete mixing plant, transferred to Utah from the Salt River Project. Cold weather halted work on the dam on December 10, 1911, and the camp closed down.31 Work resumed in the spring of 1912, and James Lytel, the Project Engineer, closed the sluiceway on July 14 to begin filling the dam. Workers finished the dam, except for the spillway on October 29. Reclamation reoccupied the dam camp site on June 1, 1913, to begin work on the spillway, located on the north side of the dam. Laborers dug 8100 cubic feet of rock and material out of the spillway section. A 64 foot reinforced concrete bridge stretched across the spillway. Workers completed the spillway on September 20, 1913.32 Strawberry Dam was an earthfill dam 72 feet high and 490 feet long containing 118,000 cubic yards of fill. The dam was 366 feet wide at its maximum base width and 21 feet wide at the crest. The reinforced concrete corewall sat 18 feet from the crest, in the center of the dam, on the upstream side. The corewall was four feet thick at the base of the dam in solid rock and progressively thinned to three feet, two feet, and 18 inches as it approached the crest.33 Indian Creek Dike was necessary to prevent loss of water into Indian Creek. The dike`s construction was similar to that of Strawberry Dam. Reclamation awarded the contract for the dike construction to W.O. Morrison Company of Denver. The company began work in July 1911. In digging the corewall trench laborers encountered quicksand at a depth of nine feet. The quicksand bed measured as deep as ten feet and about three hundred feet across. Morrison drove tongue and groove pilings into the bed for nearly the entire distance to support the corewall. Work on the dike shut down because of freezing weather on October 27, 1911, resuming in spring of 1912. Morrison poured the last load of gravel and crushed rock on the paved berm for the roadway across the dike on September 17, 1912.34 Workers built the corewall of the dike 18 inches thick in bedrock at the base, and tapered it to 12 inches at the crest. The corewall stood 17.6 inches from the center of the dike. The dike was earthfill containing 114,000 cubic yards of material. The structure was 37 feet high and 1311 feet long. The maximum base width was 198 feet with a crest width of twenty feet. The company completed the dike in October 1912.35 Reclamation awarded the contract for the Indian Creek Feeder Canal and the Trail Hollow Canal to the Ely Construction Company of Springville, Utah. Midwest Engineering Company of Omaha, Nebraska, received the contract for the construction of the terminal drop and chute, and W.O. Morrison received the contract to construct the intake structures and bridges. Ely Construction completed the Indian Creek Canal and the Trail Hollow Canal in September and November 1912, respectively. The Indian Creek Crossing Diversion Dam was finished on November 5, 1912. The dam was constructed as an earth dike 12 feet high, 1350 feet long, and it contained 15,000 cubic yards of material.36 Construction of main canals to the cities and towns in southern Utah County ran into difficulties during negotiations between Reclamation and the Strawberry Water Users` Association (SWUA). On March 25, 1914, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane abrogated the contract between the Interior Department and the SWUA at the request of the association. The water users` association claimed Reclamation could obtain better results by dealing directly with the individual units. The Spanish Fork unit, the High Line unit, and the Lake Shore unit settled contracts in 1915. The Mapleton unit failed to gain the required acreage to receive a contract in that year.37 For construction purposes, Reclamation split the main canal in the High Line Canal system into four divisions. The construction company of Mendenhall, Straw, and Bird of Springville, Utah, began work on the first division on December 21, 1914. Rideout and Andrews of Draper, Utah, contracted to build Division Two. McArthur Brothers of New York City received the contract for Division Three, and the Reynolds-Ely Construction Company of Springville built Division Four. This took care of the main section of the High Line Canal. The main section of the canal originated at the Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant near the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon and travelled, generally southwest, approximately 17.9 miles. Work crews completed the main canal, including laterals, on December 1, 1916. Final work on the High Line Canal system concluded in June 1917. The entire High Line Canal system ran approximately 77 miles with about 62 miles of it concrete lined.38 Construction began on the Springville-Mapleton Lateral in 1918. The work on sections A through F was done by force account because Reclamation considered the bids to high for the project. Contractors did some of the excavation work, but the bureau handled the rest by force account, completing the lateral in the same year. When completed the Springville-Mapleton Lateral was 6.75 miles long. The earthen section of the Lateral had a base width of four feet with a water depth of 2.71 feet. The four inch thick, concrete lined section had a base width of four feet and a water depth of 2.55 feet.39
Plan
The irrigation water is diverted from the Colorado River Basin to the Bonneville Basin. Water is stored in Strawberry Reservoir on the Strawberry River, a tributary of the Green River. The reservoir also receives water through feeder canals from Indian Creek, Trail Hollow Creek, and Currant Creek. The stored water is diverted into Bonneville Basin through the 3.8-mile Strawberry Tunnel under the Wasatch Divide. The water is discharged into Diamond Fork, a tributary of the Spanish Fork River, and diverted into the Strawberry Power Canal, which supplies the Springville-Mapleton Lateral to the north, the High Line Canal system to the south, the Upper and Lower Spanish Fork Powerplants, and the older privately built distribution system. Approximately 1,550 kilowatts of power are developed in three powerplants on the project. Strawberry Dam is on the Strawberry River about 29 miles southeast of Provo, Utah. It is an earthfill structure, 72 feet high, and contains 118,000 cubic yards of materials. The spillway is a concrete-lined chute in the north abutment of the dam that has a capacity of 425 cubic feet per second. Indian Creek Dike closes a saddle in the south end of the reservoir. The dike is 37 feet high and has a volume of 114,000 cubic yards. The 283,000-acre-foot reservoir also is fed by three feeder canals. The Indian Creek Crossing Diversion Dam diverts into the Indian Creek Feeder Canal. The dam is an earth structure 12 feet high. The 750-cubic-foot-per-second feeder canal 12 miles long. The Trail Hollow Canal is 4 miles long, has a capacity of 125 cubic feet per second, and extends from Trail Hollow Creek to the Indian Creek Feeder Canal. The 110-cubic-foot-per-second Currant Creek Feeder Canal is nearly 5 miles long, diverting into Co-op Creek, a tributary of Strawberry River upstream of the reservoir. The outlet for the reservoir is the Strawberry Tunnel, which takes water from the reservoir through the divide to Diamond Fork, a tributary of the Spanish Fork River. The concrete-lined tunnel is 7 feet wide and 9 feet high, and is 3.8 miles long. It has a capacity of 600 cubic feet per second. Inflow is controlled by two 3- by 5-foot gates. Soldier Creek Dam, completed in 1974 as part of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project, is 7 miles downstream from Strawberry Dam. The reservoir created by Soldier Creek Dam eventually will raise the water surface of Strawberry Reservoir by about 45 feet. When this level is reached, the enlarged reservoir will have a capacity of 1,106,500 acre-feet and a surface area of 17,000 acres. The Spanish Fork Diversion Dam has a concrete gravity ogee weir with a hydraulic height of 13 feet. The dam diverts Strawberry Reservoir releases into the Strawberry Power Canal, which supplies the Springville-Mapleton Lateral and the High Line Canal. The Power Canal extends 3.3 miles from the diversion dam to the Spanish Fork Powerplants. It has a diversion capacity of 500 cubic feet per second. The Springville-Mapleton Lateral branches from the Power Canal 2 miles below the diversion dam. The lateral is 6.75 miles long and has a diversion capacity of 100 cubic feet per second. The High Line Canal begins above the Spanish Fork Powerplants where the Power Canal ends, and extends 17.5 miles in a southwesterly direction. The diversion capacity is 300 cubic feet per second. Water from these canals is distributed through privately constructed laterals. The Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant, with two units, operates under a maximum head of 127 feet, and develops 900 kilowatts. The Lower Spanish Fork Powerplant has one unit operating under a maximum head of 45.2 feet and develops 250 kilowatts. The Payson Powerplant on Peteetneet Creek operates on a maximum head of 636 feet and develops 400 kilowatts. There are 269 miles of transmission and distribution lines to deliver the power to consumers. The Upper Spanish Fork Powerplant was constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation, the other two powerplants by the Strawberry Water Users Association. All plants are operated by the association. The Strawberry Water Users Association operates and maintains the project.
Other
Hansen, Roger. Moving a River: A History of the Strawberry Valley Project. Directed by Roger Hansen. 28 min. J.T.V. Productions. Videocassette.
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Address: 302 East 1860 South
City: Provo, UT 84606-7317
Phone: 801-379-1101
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Title: Public Affairs OfficerOrganization: Upper Colorado Regional Office
Address: 125 South State Street, Rm 7102
City: Salt Lake City, UT 84138-1102
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Organization: High Line Canal CompanyAddress: PO Box 216, 54 W 100 N
City: Payson, UT 84651
Phone: 801-465-4824
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Organization: Springville Irrigation DistrictAddress: 1034 South Main
City: Springville, UT 84663
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Organization: Strawberry Water UsersAddress: 745 N 500 E, Box 70
City: Payson, UT 84651
Phone: 801-465-9273
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Organization: Mapleton Irrigation CompanyAddress: 265 East 600 North
City: Mapleton, UT 84664
Phone: 801-491-6264