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Show Weber Basin plans for project improvements Weber Basin plans to bypass the slide area by siphoning water through an II -foot diameter pipe down the hillside, along the Weber River bottoms past the slide area and back up again. Other projects recommended by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation include: in-clude: RepairingtheStoddardDiver-sion RepairingtheStoddardDiver-sion Dam, located west of Morgan on the Weber River. Building several settling ponds near the Gateway Canal to prevent the movement of silt into the Weber Basin water system. Cleaning out silt and debris on low points of the Davis and Weber aqueducts. Building an equalizing reservoir reser-voir east of Centerville. Replace current open-ditch laterals at Willard Bay with an underground cement pipe. Total costs of repair and improvements im-provements to the Weber Basin Water Project are estimated to total $32 million, but Flint emphasized the actual amount could be considerably con-siderably less, depending on how much of the recommended improvements im-provements are actually completed. If the Weber Basin's application for the $21 million "rehabilitation and betterment" federal loan is approved, ap-proved, the district will have 40 years to repay the money. F;lint said culinary improvements will be carried out on a "pay-as-we-go" basis. By MARK RDIMNGTON Staff Writer LAYTON Water delivery costs for secondary water users in Davis and Weber counties could increase in-crease as a result of multinullion i dollar improvements planned for the 30-year-old Weber Basin Pro ject. Plans by the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District to improve the project cleared a major hurdle recently when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation concluded that rehabilitating the water carrier system, which provides water to customers all over northern Utah, would have "no significant impact" im-pact" on the surrounding environment. envir-onment. Cost for the upgrade could be as much as $32 million over the next seven to 10 years if Weber Basin fully implements the improvements recommended by the federal government. The district has applied ap-plied for a $21 million federal interest inter-est free loan to fund improvements to the secondary water portion of the project, The remaining amount would be used for culinary improvements im-provements and would be raised by the district over the same seven to 10 year period, All that remains is for the Secre-i Secre-i tary of Interior to approve the ap plication, and water district ! manager Ivan Flint said Weber ; Basin has received assurances the Basin has received assurances the money would be forthcoming. , Flint said district officials are i considering a small water distribution distribu-tion fee increase to help pay for the i culinary improvements. Current ' distribution fees range from an an- j nual fee of $8.50 to $21.50 and i Flint said increases would be for the secondary rather than culinary 1 water. The price of the water would I remain the same, , Most of the federal money would be for a $12 million revamping of F j the Gateway Canal. A one-mile ; stretch of the canal is located on a j hillside in a slide area. The hill has i moved over time damaging the i canal and disturbing the canal lin- ' ing- |