Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah county leaders OK trail funds – The Murdock Canal Trail is planned for the strip left exposed once the canal — a drowning hazard in the past — is enclosed in pipe. It will include one path serving walkers and cyclists and a separate path for horses. It also will have rest areas with restrooms, picnic tables and parking lots, all for a cost of $17.3 million.
Travel perks will dry up in water districts – Your water bill still might pay for an occasional golf outing, but it no longer will go toward spousal perks that some Salt Lake County water districts once included on their travel tabs.
Salt Lake Tribune – Editorial: No Utah Lake Bridge – The proposed private toll bridge bisecting our public treasure, Utah Lake, is a bad idea that is being evaluated in an inadequate, flawed process. The bridge is neither needed nor wanted. It benefits a few developers at the expense of our health, our well-being and the lake’s viability.
Ogden Standard Examiner: Water worries ease a bit in Northern Utah – Utah’s water managers love it. After a dry fall followed by a so-so winter and now a dry spring, the snow is a welcome addition that has boosted Top of Utah’s snow pack to nudging 70 percent of normal.
Deseret News: Federal water projects impact residents – Living in a federal construction project along 400 East is fun for the kids but extra work for Jennifer Soter.
“It’s mostly muddy, and on warm days, it’s dusty,” the Springville homemaker said.
Soter’s block was among those torn up by construction crews in January to begin laying a 60-inch water pipe to carry pressurized Strawberry Reservoir water from Diamond Fork Canyon to Salt Lake County.
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