The Uinta Indian Irrigation Project is the principal
Indian irrigation project in the
Uintah Basin
The Uinta Basin (also known as the Uintah Basin) is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. It is also a geologic structural basin in e ...
. The
United States
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to American Indians and A ...
designed and constructed this project. By 1935, the Uinta Indian Irrigation Project was irrigating over of Indian land. Today, it continues to serve Indian and non-Indian irrigators in the drainage of the
Lake Fork River
The Lake Fork River is a river in Duchesne County, Utah in the United States. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed 2016-05-13 from Mount Lovenia in the Uinta M ...
and elsewhere in the Basin. It continues to be owned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which has responsibility for its operation; however, operation has been turned over to a quasi-private operation and maintenance company organized in accordance with provisions of the
Central Utah Project Completion Act.
See also
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Moon Lake (Utah)
Moon Lake is a high mountain reservoir on the south slope of the High Uintas in Duchesne County, Utah. Recreation management is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service, as the lake is part of the Ashley National Forest.
In 1938, the U ...
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Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation
The Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (, ) is located in northeastern Utah, United States. It is the homeland of the Ute Indian Tribe (Ute dialect: Núuchi-u), and is the largest of three Indian reservations inhabited by members of the Ute Tribe ...
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Ute Indian Rights Settlement
References
* {{citation , first= Craig , last= Fuller , contribution= Irrigation in Utah , contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/i/IRRIGATION.html , editor-last= Powell , editor-first= Allan Kent , year= 1994 , title= Utah History Encyclopedia , location= Salt Lake City, Utah , publisher=
University of Utah Press
The University of Utah Press is the independent publishing branch of the University of Utah and is a division of the J. Willard Marriott Library. Founded in 1949 by A. Ray Olpin, it is also the oldest university press in Utah. The mission of th ...
, isbn= 0874804256 , oclc= 30473917
Irrigation projects
Irrigation in the United States
Native American history of Utah