July 2018 Council Meeting: Summer Tour
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Back 40 Ranch House Grill (Spring Creek E. coli TMDL, North Fields Project
Sandy Wingert, Utah Division of Water Quality
swingert@utah.gov
Dax Reed, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
dereid@utah.gov
Sandy Wingert with Utah Division of Water Quality began the tour by welcoming the group. She talked about the upcoming TMDL that will cover numerous areas of the watershed. Various parameters are not meeting water quality standards in different areas. Aluminum is an issue in the upper reaches of the Provo River. Arsenic exceeds the standards in Snake Creek. E. coli is high in Spring Creek. All of these, along with other issues will be addressed in a single TMDL.
Dax Reid talked about the North Fields Project which explores the concept of open space / conservation easements for property. A meeting of stakeholders was organized to describe the concept and gage interest by property owners. Utah Open Lands is interested in participating with land owners to develop the easements and provide long-term management of the lands.
On the drive over to the Heber Valley Special Service District offices the group stopped along Spring Creek, the Sagebrush Canal, London Ditch, and Rock Ditch to observe the waterways.
swingert@utah.gov
Dax Reed, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
dereid@utah.gov
Sandy Wingert with Utah Division of Water Quality began the tour by welcoming the group. She talked about the upcoming TMDL that will cover numerous areas of the watershed. Various parameters are not meeting water quality standards in different areas. Aluminum is an issue in the upper reaches of the Provo River. Arsenic exceeds the standards in Snake Creek. E. coli is high in Spring Creek. All of these, along with other issues will be addressed in a single TMDL.
Dax Reid talked about the North Fields Project which explores the concept of open space / conservation easements for property. A meeting of stakeholders was organized to describe the concept and gage interest by property owners. Utah Open Lands is interested in participating with land owners to develop the easements and provide long-term management of the lands.
On the drive over to the Heber Valley Special Service District offices the group stopped along Spring Creek, the Sagebrush Canal, London Ditch, and Rock Ditch to observe the waterways.
Heber Valley Special Services District
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Dennis Gunn, General Manager Heber Valley Special Service District
hvssd@aol.com Dennis Gunn, General Manager, provided a tour of the Heber Valley Special Service District’s reclamation facilities. They recently developed a rapid infiltration basin to take treated wastewater. A tour of the initial treatment process was given. A drive was then taken around the sewage lagoons and 1500 acre-foot storage ponds. The tour culminated at the 400 acre farm that gets irrigated from the storage ponds. Crops are generally grown on 360 acres of the farm. |
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Midway Fish Hatchery
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A tour of the hatchery was a highlight of the day. We first walked to the spring which fed the water to the hatchery for many years. Due to high nutrients and the possibility of whirling Disease from the spring the water source was changed over to a shallow well. Then the tour progressed to the building where the hatchlings are grown. There were approximately 460,000 cutthroat trout and 284,000 rainbow trout hatchlings. Then we went to the Egg Room where up to 2 million eggs are fertilized. We went to the raceways which are now covered and saw where the larger fish are grown. The Raceways are supplemented with oxygen. Also on the tour was the wastewater treatment processing area where we observed the settler and vacuum filter.
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