Water News Roundup – March 11, 2010

11 Mar

Daily Herald:

Stalled no more, canal piping moves ahead – What is 126 inches tall, 21 miles long, weighs 32,000 tons, requires 131 miles of welding, and has peeved off an entire upscale Highland neighborhood?

Springville pipeline update – The intersection at 400 South and 400 East in Springville closed Tuesday, a week ahead of schedule, to make way for the ongoing Central Utah Water Conservancy District’s (CUWCD) pipeline project.

KSL:

Big pipeline to replace Provo Canal – A canal association plans to enclose an open ditch leaving Provo Canyon with a 21-mile pipeline to Salt Lake County.

Regulators OK disposal of wastewater into the Great Salt Lake – State regulators Wednesday gave a tentative “thumbs up” for disposal of contaminated water into the Great Salt Lake. A pipeline to get it there is already under construction.