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Southwest Pipeline Project outlines $131.7 million biennial ask, details major treatment plant costs
Summary
Southwest Water Authority and Department of Water Resources staff described current construction, repayment history and a $131.7 million request for 2025–27 covering transmission expansion, a supplementary intake, rural expansions and a treatment plant increase.
Jen Murray, manager and CEO of Southwest Water Authority, and Justin Froseth, Southwest Pipeline Project manager for the Department of Water Resources, presented the authority’s project list and budget requests to the Senate appropriations committee and described active construction, capital repayment history and system needs.
“We serve a population of about 58,000, almost 8,000 rural customers, over 5,000 miles of pipe in 33 communities,” Murray said, describing the system as a state‑owned regional water supply that returns capital repayment dollars to the Resources Trust Fund. Murray said capital repayment returned roughly $6.5 million in 2024 and that the project recently returned $100 million cumulatively to the state through capital repayment.
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