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Stansbury Park outlines $16 million wastewater upgrade as state tightens phosphorus, ammonia limits
Summary
District staff told trustees a planned upgrade to the wastewater treatment plant—designed for about 2.7 million gallons per day—will address DEQ/EPA nutrient limits; staff estimated the project at roughly $16 million and said the plant must be operational within about four years.
District staff told trustees the Stansbury Park wastewater treatment plant needs a major upgrade to meet state-administered EPA limits on phosphorus and ammonia.
District Engineer Bridal Thorpe said the design target is about 2,700,000 gallons per day and that one option the district selected is a LEMNA treatment system. "We are estimating this cost of the project will be around $16,000,000," Thorpe said. The state is also requiring three groundwater monitoring wells (one upstream, one north, one west of the ponds) with sampling roughly every three months for one to two years to confirm whether existing lagoons are affecting groundwater.
Staff explained the upgrade is driven by regulatory limits, not only by growth; because the work removes nutrients under DEQ requirements, existing customers will share in the cost rather than it being fully funded by impact fees tied to new development. Staff said a fully mechanical alternative would have been far more expensive—on the order of $50 million in previous estimates—but the LEMNA option, though less common in Utah, had state concept approval and fit the cost targets and timelines.
