Planning, Design and Construction of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Water Development Project - CWP Pipeline

摘要

The Central Utah Water Conservancy District (District) is a political subdivision of the State of Utah originally charged with managing and operating the Central Utah Project, a federally funded water project. The District covers 10 counties of Utah and provides culinary and secondary water to a wide range of communities and water districts within these counties. They are primarily a water wholesaler and provide water to communities and other water districts. They operate several dams, reservoirs, canals, pipelines, tunnels, and water treatment plants.In 2005, the District opted to purchase about 42,000 acre-feet of groundwater rights, 23 existing wells, pipelines ,a pump station and other associated assets made available from the bankruptcy liquidation of the former Geneva Steel Plant which was located in Vineyard, Utah on the shore of Utah Lake. This purchase provided an opportunity to convert groundwater sources that had previously been used for industrial purposes into a municipal/industrial system by the District. The District then embarked on a study to determine the best way to use this resource.MWH Americas, Inc. was hired to assist the District in planning and implementing a program to use this water and other rights the District has accumulated over the years. After examining several options the District decided to develop their first non-federally funded system to develop and distribute this water to their customer's agencies.In an analysis of needs, it was determined that the majority of the communities that needed and wanted additional water for current and future growth were located north and west of Utah Lake in northern Utah County and Salt Lake County located to the north of Utah County. A system was developed to pump, store, and convey the water to potential end users. Figure 1 shows the basic concepts developed for the project. The project was named the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Water Development Project and given the short title of CWP.The CWP is designed to combine surface water treated at one of the District's existing water treatment plants, Utah Valley Water Treatment Plant, with groundwater developed from a series of new wells to be located on the former Geneva Steel Plant site and pump the water to a terminal reservoir located in Saratoga Springs, northwest of Utah Lake. A