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Central Utah Water outlines multi‑hundred‑million dollar projects, proposes small tax increase for Utah County homeowners
Summary
The Central Utah Water Conservancy District presented projects including pipeline relocations, a polishing plant and a south‑county treatment plant, and said the district’s truth‑in‑taxation filing would raise an average Utah County homeowner’s tax bill by about $6.27 per year.
Gene Schockroft, general manager of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, told the Utah County Commission on July 1 that the district is planning multiple large capital projects and seeking a truth‑in‑taxation adjustment that would increase the typical Utah County homeowner’s property‑tax contribution to the district by about $6.27 per year.
Schockroft said the district, created in 1964 as the local sponsor of the federal Central Utah Project, operates roughly $4 billion in infrastructure, including eight dams and about 1.6 million acre‑feet of storage across its reservoirs. He described a set of planned and ongoing projects that the district expects will require significant capital funding over the next several years.
The projects Schockroft highlighted include a planned relocation of…
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