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Commissioner outlines $20 million NRCS plan to redirect monsoonal flows into mining pits for recharge and flood control
Summary
A long-range Coal Creek watershed project presented to the commission would tie sediment-control, recharge and flood-protection structures to nearby gravel pits; the presenter said the NRCS plan costs about $20 million with an estimated county match of $1.8 million and requires a Cedar City MOU to proceed.
A county commissioner presented a multi-year Coal Creek watershed proposal to the Iron County Commission on Monday that would use nearby rock pits to capture monsoonal and runoff flows, limit sedimentation downstream and recharge groundwater.
The presenter described the project as an NRCS-identified suite of storage, spillway and diversion works that would redirect high-volume flows into the Cedar City and Western Rock pits rather than allowing heavy sediment loads to travel down Stevensville Ditch toward the wastewater treatment plant and Rush Lake.
"This is about protecting us against a hundred-year event,"…
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