BAKER, NV — Less than 72 hours after releasing a massive document for the Cedar City Pipeline, federal regulators veered from normal public review policies and approved the massive water grab in the Great Salt Lake Desert just south of…
Aquifers are complex mosaics of geologic and hydrologic phenomena. When humans remove large qunatities of water from aquifers, there are drastic changes that take place: The connections with surface water, the direction of flows, hydrostatic pressure, the discharges at springs,…
For the third time, federal regulators pushed back the release of the final environmental review for the Cedar City Pipeline. This was welcome news for a regulatory matter that’s been spanning more than five years. A delay is a win.…
Hundreds of dollars. That’s how much more customers of the Central Iron County Water District could pay per month for water in the coming years. And, go figure, public officials are not touting that bit of information when they gin…
Cedar City is attempting to achieve what Vegas could not: tapping deep waters that are, ultimately, the remains of ancient Lake Bonneville and a mix of more recent freshwater resources. Much of these waters are non-renewable resources that are 10,000…