From Deseret News archives:
Water outlook 'as good as it gets'
"The water supply this year is probably as good as it gets," Julander told members of the Utah Board of Water Resources meeting in St. George on Wednesday. "We have got essentially double the snowpack this year that we had last year."
Stream flows are also expected to be above normal around the state, he added.
"The runoff implication is that we could see snowmelt a little early on. We've never been in a situation where we've had too much snow, but it's possible. It could happen," Julander said, adding a storm is expected to roll through portions of Utah this week. "We are expecting all of our reservoirs to fill up, except for Bear Lake and the others that have some restrictions, such as Enterprise Reservoir."
Other items on the water board agenda included allocating funds or approving bond requests to improve water-related projects around the state.
Brigham City, for example, requested a $6 million loan at zero percent interest to construct a water and sewer line to serve a new Proctor and Gamble paper plant to be built in Box Elder County. That request was granted.
Eric Millis, deputy director for the Utah Division of Water Resources, also reviewed the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline for the board.
"The big news is that we have submitted the preliminary application documents with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and are on our way to a 4 1/2 year process that will result in license permits for the Lake Powell Pipeline Project," Millis said. "The next big step is the scoping process where we hold meetings where anyone interested in the project can attend and comment."
The first public scoping meeting is tentatively scheduled for June, although Millis said details are up to FERC, which is the meeting sponsor.
"They have a schedule laid out for this process, and it should move right along," he said. "Things shouldn't change too much unless there's controversy or something unexpected happens and slows things down."
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