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Show near the bay. , Mr. Jensen also noted that a well being drilled at the old Riverdale power plant site is almost completed and if the well tests out as expected, the district will enlarge existing water lines and install new lines at a cost of about $1 million mil-lion as part of the overall project pro-ject to upgrade the local culinary culin-ary water supply. . Weber Water: A New Plant of the water district and that this would be one of the plants used. Another mammoth plant is planned for construction LAYTON - Weber Basin Water Conservancy District officials have announced plans for developing a new $10 million mil-lion purification and treatment' plant in the southwest corner of Riverdale-if they can get city approval. THE PLAN was presented to Riverdale city officials lust week but they took the matter under advisement until they could further study any legal ramifications and to determine deter-mine the city's own plans for supplying culinary and irrigation irriga-tion water to its residents. Weber District Manager Keith Jensen said the new treatment plant would assure communities in southwest Weber We-ber County and northeast Davis County of adequate future fu-ture supply of drinking water. HE SAID the planned site would be on about 10 acres of city-owned land adjacent to Riverdale's Freeway Park at the north end of Hill Air Force Base. The property is located near a storage reservoir that presently supplies Roy Water Subconservancy District with a pressurized secondary water system. The plant. Mr. Jensen said, would treat water from Willard Bay to serve a large portion of Davis and Weber counties that are presently badly in need of treated culinary water for drinking. THERE WAS some opposition opposi-tion from Riverdale's council because some officials felt that the city should not release that portion of land in case it was needed for future expansion of the present secondary system. Mr. Jensen noted that culinary culin-ary water from a new plant probably would not be available avail-able for "at least 5 years, because be-cause the district is very close to being out of water at the present pre-sent time." HE EXPLAINED, however, that treatment of water from Willard are in the future plans |