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Cedar City Council debates $22–23 million water bond and alternatives amid state compliance deadline
Summary
Council spent the bulk of a May work session on a proposed multi‑million dollar water bond to address chlorination, pressure reductions and new wells, debating staging, cost uncertainty and whether to seek conservancy district repricing before borrowing.
Cedar City Council devoted the majority of its May work meeting to a contentious review of proposed fiscal‑year 2025–26 water projects and a $22–23 million bonding package intended to pay for chlorination, pressure‑reducing upgrades, new pumping and storage capacity, and pipeline work to bring northern supplies into the city.
City engineering staff outlined a multi‑phase plan that includes a filtration/chlorination facility for Cedar Canyon Springs (engineered estimate about $4.2 million), pressure‑reduction work in the North Quichespah well field, additional pumping capacity and a storage tank near 800 South, meter replacements and a pipeline loop to increase system redundancy. Jonathan Stath of the…
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