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Central Utah Water outlines gravel-pit recharge tests and a parcel trade idea for a recharge basin
Summary
Central Utah Water told Highland council it drilled monitoring wells at a local gravel pit and saw a minor test show water infiltrating. CUW proposed trading parcels with the city and monitoring groundwater while Kilgore completes mining (estimated 18 months——2 years).
Central Utah Water presented a technical update to the Highland City Council on April 21 about a former gravel-pit site under study as a potential aquifer-recharge basin.
Kirk Beecher, CUW lands manager, said the district drilled three groundwater-monitoring wells on and near the pit and conducted a short spring test that "was a minor test, but at least it showed that water was going in." CUW recorded small water-level rises at wells downstream of the site and continues to monitor groundwater under state reporting requirements.
Beecher described one possible path forward: CUW would acquire and regrade parts of the mined basin to make it a contiguous infiltration area and proposed a…
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