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Board staff recommend loans to pressurize Coop Farm and Huntsville Southbench irrigation systems
Summary
Division staff presented paired projects for Coop Farm Irrigation Company and Huntsville Southbench Canal Company to replace open canals with HDPE pipe, reduce seepage and safety risk near residences, and build a new diversion; staff recommended Board cost-share loans but no formal board vote is recorded in the briefing transcript.
Division of Water Resources staff outlined two linked irrigation modernization proposals that staff say will pressurize and replace aging open canal infrastructure for Coop Farm Irrigation Company and Huntsville Southbench Canal Company.
Ethan Stayner, presenting the Coop Farm application, said the Coop’s portion of the combined work totals $1,994,000 and would replace roughly 18,400 feet of aging concrete pipe and open canal with HDPE pipe and a new diversion structure about 4 miles east of Huntsville in Weber County. Staff cited benefits including elimination of open-canal risk near residential areas, reduced seepage and evaporation losses, and replacement of roughly 50-year-old infrastructure. "The…
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