In this digital collection of 71 interviews (with 74 people), stakeholders from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Central Utah Project Completion Act, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Ute Nation, join with Utah water users, members of the environmental community and Utah’s political establishment to tell the complex and oftentimes controversial story of the Central Utah Project.
In this digital collection of 71 oral histories (with 74 people), stakeholders from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, Central Utah Project Completion Act, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Ute Nation, join with Utah water users, members of the environmental community and Utah’s political establishment to tell the complex and oftentimes controversial story of the Central Utah Project
The Central Utah Project captures the excess flow of the Duchesne River and its tributaries in the Colorado River Basin of eastern Utah and transfers it to the Wasatch Front through a trans-mountain diversion consisting of pipelines, tunnels and reservoirs. Originally under the purview of the Bureau of Reclamation, Congress transferred authority to complete the project to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District when it passed the unprecedented Central Utah Project Completion Act (P.L. 102-575) on 30 October 1992, which created the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission to assure environmental compliance. As a result of this legislation the Interior Department created the Central Utah Project Completion Act office for oversight
The collection was born digital (recorded interviews, word document of interview transcript, images); it is presented in a digital collection, sorted by interviewee names
No restrictions on use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances
Permission to publish material from the Central Utah Project must be obtained from the Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head
In cooperation with Utah State University, Randy Williams conducted the interviews for the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and Central Utah Project Completion Act office. Each interviewee released his/her interview to Utah State University for digital archiving. Copies of CUP interviews (sound and transcript) were given by USU to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Archive and Utah State History
Commissioned by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and Central Utah Project Completion Act (CUPCA) office, the oral history project is an effort by Utah State University Library’s Special Collections and Archives to preserve and present this fascinating story. Randy Williams, USU Fife Folklore Archives Curator and oral history specialist, conducted the interviews (June 2012 - September 2013). Ross Peterson helped Williams with five interviews. This effort augments research for the forthcoming book on the CUP by Utah historians Craig Fuller, Robert Parson and Ross Peterson
Processed in September 2014
USU Special Collections Book Collection 26; Palmer DeLong Reclamation Collection
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