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Show Funds approved for East Duchesne water project jj The Utah Board of Water Resources approved $100,000 from its Cities Water Loan Fund at its November 6 meeting in Salt Lake City, for the East Duchesne Water Improvement District to install additional water service pipeline. Another $80,000 has been requested by the district from the Community Impact Im-pact Board to help pay for the project estimated to cost $187,000. Residents of the district plan to install in-stall the pipeline themselves and pay the remaining construction costs. Approval Ap-proval of the funds by the Board is contingent con-tingent on approval of a bond election by district residents. David K. Clayburn, president of the improvement district, says the district is under contract to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District to buy 80 acre feet of municipal and industrial water. And the district is obligated to the CUWCD to repay 66 percent of the cost to construct an aqueduct from the nearly completed Duchesne Water Treatment Plant to the improvement district area, according to Clayburn. About 7,000 feet of the proposed pipeline project will connect to the aqueduct near the western boundan the district, and the remaining feet of pipeline will connect to or eastern end of the aqueduct. The Duchesne Treatment Plant be V built in storage capacity of appr-imately appr-imately 700,000 gallons, so the di will have no additional water stow requirements for the next se years, says Clayburn. I Clavburn states that much of . district is in an energy tmpactea . surrounded by oil. gas and ou developments. The district is comprised of 4 l miles east of the Duchesne or. along Highway 40 and the , River to the eastern edg i of and Bridgeland. Most of to JJ water supplies come from pn . -jointly owned wells. Water quJ poor, according to Clayburn, isting supplies are not adequate , health and fire safety needs. The improvement .i)? asked to purchase the projeci i Board with annual payments over an 18 year period. : |