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Commissioner’s office details $50 million water-delivery program to benefit Great Salt Lake
Summary
Hannah Friese, deputy commissioner for the Great Salt Lake Commissioner's Office, told the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council that the office will roll out a $50,000,000 program funded through the Bureau of Reclamation and tied to IRA appropriations.
Hannah Friese, deputy commissioner for the Great Salt Lake Commissioner's Office, told the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council that the office will roll out a $50,000,000 program funded through the Bureau of Reclamation and tied to IRA appropriations.
Friese said the program is organized into three "buckets": voluntary water transactions, system conservation (infrastructure) projects, and ecosystem and habitat restoration. "The first bucket of projects will be voluntary water transactions," she said, explaining the office is prioritizing large-volume leases — generally at least about 1,000 acre-feet — that would require an approved change application with the Division of Water Rights and the state engineer.
The second bucket will fund infrastructure to improve system efficiency, with…
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