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Planning commission approves Jordan Valley Water expansion permit with landscaping condition
Summary
The commission approved a conditional-use permit for Jordan Valley Water to expand its Herriman treatment plant to add buildings (powdered activated carbon storage, chlorine, caustic-soda pH adjustment and a backwash tank) and increase capacity by about 70,000,000 gallons per day; staff required upgraded frontage landscaping.
Herriman's Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional-use permit for Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District to expand and reconfigure facilities at its Mountain View treatment plant.
City staff said the proposed additions comply with the A-143 zone standards and recommended approval with two conditions, including improved frontage landscaping to provide a minimum of 50% live growth coverage along the public right-of-way.
David McClain, an employee of Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, described the project and the plant location (15305 South 3200 West). "The treatment plant is being expanded as part of this application to treat an additional 70,000,000 gallons a day, which is about 40% of our capacity to handle the growing needs of water in the Southwest part of the valley," he said. McClain described the proposed structures: a powdered-activated-carbon storage building, a chlorine/disinfection building, a caustic-soda pH-adjustment building and a backwash tank (staff noted the backwash tank is about 49 feet tall and is exempt from residential height restrictions because it is public infrastructure).
In response to commissioner questions, McClain said the project will not remove hardness from the water and will not change the mix of treatment chemicals already used; it does add caustic dosing to adjust pH (staff and applicant said the plant currently operates around pH 7.8''8.0 and the project would move toward roughly 8.4''8.5). He also said Jordan Valley has been incrementally improving landscaping and can add additional frontage landscaping if the city requires it.
A motion to approve the conditional-use permit with staff recommendations passed on a unanimous roll-call vote.
Staff noted standard conditions and that landscaping improvements should be coordinated with the applicant; the applicant said they would work with staff on frontage plantings.
