Beginning in 2005 with the purchase of the Geneva Steel's water rights, the
Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD) has worked to develop a non-federal water
project to help meet the potable water needs of growing communities in Vineyard,
northwestern Utah County and southwestern Salt Lake County. CUWCD has combined the Geneva
Steel's water rights with other surface water rights into the CUWCD Water Development
Project (CWP), with an ultimate total water supply of 53,300 acre-feet annually. Since 2007,
CUWCD has constructed eight wells, over 23 miles of transmission pipelines, 10 million
gallons of storage, a pump station and chlorination facilities in the initial phases of the
CWP to deliver drinking water to the cities of Vineyard, Lehi, Saratoga Springs and Eagle
Mountain and to the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. The CWP water supply is
high-quality drinking water; in fact, the first two wells won "Best-Tasting Water" in the
intermountain region in 2015 and 2016, respectively. CUWCD is now completing the next phase
of the CWP, "The Wells @ Vineyard." The project includes drilling three new wells, 24 inches
in diameter and 1,500 feet deep, constructing pump houses atop each well and building a
3-mile-long pipeline to collect the well water and convey it to the CWP aqueducts for
delivery to customers. Work began in December 2017 and will continue until late 2020. Future
phases will include construction of up to seven additional wells in the coming years. For
more information and updates, please visit The Wells at Vinyard Website.
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