Navajo Lake and Cedar City water supply

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G@dar City, a Mall area of 2068O acres or Ud9 square miles^ Iras an excellent water collection and distribution systemo It is comprised of four storage reservoirs with a capacity of I4,900,000 gallons* Two new one million gallon steel reservoirs are in the process of construction and will be finished early in 196lb This will increase the storage to 6,900,000 gallons. Much of the distribution system within th& city has been improved by replacing old, small lines with larger lines and installing new mains© Two thousand five hundred f orty=nine ft. of ten inch pipe was replaced by a sixteen inch main whila 8,058 fto of ten inch pip® was installed in new locations o The distribution system* is now comprised of approximately 31o60 miles of water lines* These lines s@r?ed 1,8?9 connections and delivered 537,763,670 gallons of water during 1960o This represents an average daily use of slightly over 195 gallons of water per person,, July was the peak month with a usage of 78,219,900 gallons while 1^117,500 gallons were delivered into the reservoirs on May lU« Minimum daily usage Was recorded on February 2k in the amount of 627^600 gallons o The collection system, which includes all pip® lines outside of the city limits, was considerably enlarged by the addition of the Quitch&pa wall and pipa Una* Nine and three fourths miles of 16 inch pip® was added to the system bringing the total to approximately 360^ mil^s of pipe* Inasmuch as Cedar City is located in a seed-arid region, the development of water reserves has long been a problem* It has required much long range planning by city official s0 In 1950 Mayor Lo V. Broadbent appointed a committee known as the Gadar City Water and Power Boardo The Water and Power Board immediately began a study of all available water resources in and near Iron County• In X952 the Enoch Basin Well and pipe line were added to the water system and in 1955 Cedar City acquired a share in the waters of the Kolob Reservoir* Mro Ralph Bo Piatt* Consulting Engineer, headed up the activities of the Water Board by continuing investigation and it was soon apparent that the water on the west side of Quitchapa Lake was of tha highest quality o This area also represented the only undeveloped ground water in the ar@a0 Consequently Cedar City Corporation filed an application for a five cubic feet per second right which was granted by the State ®agineer0 Land was secured and the Quitchapa well was drilled in November of 1956 o This well has a 16 inch casing and was drilled 330 ft. deep0 It is located in the South West comer of Secc 32, T36S, RilW, SLB&Mo It was tested in December of 1956 and produced over five c«f.sa During the simmer of 1957 it was pumped by farmers and used for irrigation© This pumping was to test the affect on water levels, test the well for defects and to test for changes in the quality of. the water o The well met every expectation and plans were begun to transport the water into Cedar City0