Proposed Amalga Barrens Reservoir Footprint
Background on the Halted Barrens Dam Effort
In the mid-1980s, the Utah Division of Water Resources began considering the Barrens as a site for off-river water storage pumped from the Bear River. This project received extensive study, matched by extensive objections from environmentalists, taxpayers, and local landowners. The impoundment would have inundated approximately 12 square miles of land behind a 60 foot rip-rap retaining wall, destroying over 1,500 acres of wetlands. Fortunately, the 2002 Utah Legislature removed the “Barrens Dam” from consideration as part of the Bear River development project.–Stilt Archive
Farrell, Nicole G.,How do you spell ‘dam’?, The Herald Journal, Aug 3, 1999, https://www.hjnews.com/how-do-you-spell-dam/article_6a1eab31-51d1-5011-b621-b3c8a3b52a82.html
Bear dams are bad idea, Deseret News Publishing Company, Jun 8, 1999, https://www.deseret.com/1999/6/8/19449615/bear-dams-are-bad-idea
Hooton, Jr, LeRoy W., The Bear River November 1, 1988, http://www.slcdocs.com/utilities/newsevents/news2000/news11022000.htm
Parson, Robert, “The Hardest Worked River In The World”: The 1962 Bear River Project, Utah and Idaho, Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 72, Number 2, 2004
by Utah State History, https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume72_2004_number2/s/10187992
See also https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=lib_pubs
The Effort to Divert Bear River Water Continues
Bear River Development, Utah Division of Water Resources, Utah Department of Natural Resources, https://water.utah.gov/bear-river-dev/
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