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Advisory council urges Centerville to adopt water-conservation tools to help Great Salt Lake
Summary
Consultants from SWCA and the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council briefed the Centerville City Council on water-conservation tools, state requirements and rebate programs, and urged municipalities to adopt ordinances and rate structures to reduce depletion to the lake.
Erica Gaddis, senior water resources director at SWCA, and Tim Hawkes, chair of the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council, presented to the Centerville City Council on municipal water conservation and tools available to cities to help increase flows to the Great Salt Lake.
The presentation explained why municipal conservation matters to the lakeand to public health and local industries: outdoor irrigation is a primary source of water depletion, and reducing outdoor use or "shepherding" conserved water to the lake will reduce long-term decline and the risk of harmful dust storms from a drying lake bed.
Gaddis said state partners compiled a Great Salt Lake Water Conservation Toolbox with model ordinances, sample tiered rate structures and incentive programs that cities can customize, and described technical and funding supports available from the Division of Water Resources, Utah Waterways and the University of Utah S.J.…
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