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Show Corps of Engineers to increase sewer plant dike two feet WEST BOUNTIFUL-Responding to existing flood emergencies, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to spend an additional $185,000 to raise the dikes surrounding the north plant of the South Davis Sewer Improvement District. The plant, located west of 1 100 West on 1200 North in West Bountiful, is seriously threatened by the rising water level of the Great Salt Lake. The plant is already surrounded by levies reaching to an elevation of 4,215 feet above sea level -- or about three feet above the existing water level. "But the dikes are continually being damaged by wind-caused wind-caused waves beating against them, enabling significant amounts of lake water to spray over the levies," according to Robert Smith, resident engineer for the Corps. He said a row of rocks and rip-rap will be placed along the lakeside of the 6,200 feet of levies that surround the plant. The project will be done by Harper Excavating Company of Salt Lake City. |
