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Cedar City Council approves expenditures to advance new well after positive test pumping
Summary
The council voted to proceed with expenditures to develop a well south of 3000 North after staff reported six hours of stabilized drawdown and strong flow; council also approved a not-to-exceed $120,000 change order to install special sewer materials under adjacent townhomes, to be funded via a budget amendment from the Martin's Flat culinary well fund.
Cedar City — The Cedar City Council voted Nov. 12 to move forward with expenditures to develop a municipal well south of 3000 North after city engineers reported encouraging test-pump results and recommended a change order to protect nearby residential plumbing.
City engineering staff said the test pump ran long enough to show about six hours of stabilized drawdown and a peak pump rate near 1,800 gallons per minute. "We were able to see at least 6 hours of stabilized drawdown," Jonathan Stouthis, identified in the meeting materials as the city engineering representative, told the council. He said the state typically certifies a well at about two-thirds of the observed pumping rate — roughly 1,200 gpm in this case — and that sand content measured about 10 parts per million (staff said a…
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