January 16, 2008--Proposed Lake Powell pipeline meets with opposition (Salt Lake Tribune)
A group of Washington County residents wants the push for a Lake Powell pipeline to dry up.Lin Alder, executive director of Citizens for Dixie's Future, warns that the proposed 158-mile-long pipeline would be too costly, would spawn more sprawl, could prove unreliable and, ultimately, would not be needed to meet the region's water demands. But the Washington County Conservancy District sees the pipeline as vital to providing reasonably priced water to a surging southwestern Utah population, expected to swell by 600,000 people in the next 40 years. The pipeline -- construction could start as soon as 2018 -- also would deliver smaller shares of water to neighboring Kane and Iron counties. And four proposed hydroelectric plants along the yet-to-be-determined route could bolster energy demands.
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