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Show Salt Lake City Watershed Management Plan ' 99 cooperation on toilet pumping at recreation sites, cooperation in law enforcement, land acquisition for ownership consolidation, information sharing, reviews of all land transactions, and the preparation of a specific watershed management strategies plan. E. METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT OF SALT LAKE CITY The Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City ( MWD) is a two- city District comprised of Salt Lake City and Sandy City. Sandy City applied for annexation into the MWD in 1990 and the Board of Directors unanimously approved their annexation petition. The MWD was first created after the prolonged drought of 1934 by the Salt Lake City Commission to provide a long- range water supply for Salt Lake City. The boundaries of the MWD are conterminous with the boundaries of its member cities. Through taxing capability, the MWD gives Salt Lake City and Sandy City the ability to provide alternative means of financing large- scale water projects that would otherwise exceed the City's constitutional debt limitation. The development of Deer Creek Reservoir as a water supply, and the MWD becoming a principal stockholder in the Provo River Water Users Association in the 1940s, was the main catalyst for creation of the district. Since 1935, the MWD has assumed the lead role for supplying new water to Salt Lake City and subsequently to Sandy City. Among the projects of the MWD are Deer Creek Reservoir, Little Dell Reservoir, and the construction of the Little Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant in 1960, which is rated at 113 million gallons per day treatment capacity. Salt Lake City, Sandy City, and the MWD have enjoyed close cooperation and conjunctive management. The MWD board of directors is appointed by the city councils of each city. Salt Lake City appoints five board members and Sandy City appoints two board members, which comprise the seven- member board of directors. The MWD, by statute, provides water to Salt Lake City on a preferential right basis at rates fixed by the MWD. Sandy City also receives a preferential right to MWD waters that is second to Salt Lake City's right. Surplus water is sold to other water distributors in Salt Lake County, principally the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District. The MWD also owns water rights for Little Dell Reservoir in Parleys Canyon and maintains water right filings with the State Engineer for surplus stream waters in the other canyons. Page 39 |