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Show ?J Canal suitable P for CUP water I K By MARC HADDOCK A letter and a report issued the U1 latter part of last month both show ' t tot the Murdock Canal would be J suitable for carrying water for use in ' treatment plants in the Salt Lake Valley. Both are designed to resolve one of ""!! the questions surrounding the i proposed use of the canal to carry the i! water originally planned for the "l Jordan 4 and Alpine 3 aqueducts i which will carry water through j northern Utah County to the Salt Lake i area as part of the Central Utah -i Project. Hie letter, sent by Robert B. I Hilbert,chairmah of the Utah Safe Drinking Water Committee and ; ; Gayle Smith, director of the Bureau d Public Water Supplies to Lynn J Ludlow, manager of Central Utah I Water Conservancy District S (CUWCD), says that while there is some concern the wa ter coul d become "H contaminated in the canal, there is no J evidence that it will, r i The report, prepared for ARIX, an Orem engineering firm, and the ai Timpanogos Planning and Water I Management Agency by a Virginia 4 civil engineer, states that the canal is I' suitable for carrying the water. Hilbert and Smith issued the letter j to clarify the State Health Depart- ir ment's position regarding the use of the canal to carry the water. "It is reported that some are telling your Board the Department of Health will not allow you to continue using the open canal to supply the (Jordan) treatment plant," the letter states. It goes on to say: "While we have expressed concern of possible contamination con-tamination of such open coveyance facilties, we have not stated that such use should cease." The letter states that although the canal crosses some orchards which could be sprayed with pesticides and other possible environmental -.hazards, that those, conditions are "not sufficient to preclude its use a carrier of raw water to the treatment plant." The letter goes on to state that the canal may require more monitoring in the future. The report prepared for the Timpanogos Tim-panogos Agency by Dr. Robert C. Hoehn of the Virginia Polytechnical Institute studies the problems encountered en-countered by the canal as it works its way through northern Utah County. According to Loren Powell, an engineer with ARIX, the study shows "there doesn't appear to be any serious problems with the use of the canal." |
