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Local cities study piping of Mill Ditch

By Linda Petersen
CEDAR HILLS — City officials are considering piping Mill Ditch after a request from Pleasant Grove City officials to participate in a project to do so.

On February 6, the city council heard from Pleasant Grove City Water Superintendent Greg Woodcox and John Schiess of Horrocks Engineering.

Schiess said there was a lot of water loss into Mill Ditch and Pleasant Grove city officials wanted to pipe the ditch in order to mitigate the issue. Piping the ditch would save about 1,000 acre-feet of water per year.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS), with the assistance of Pleasant Grove City as the project sponsor, has contacted with Horrocks to perform an environmental assessment of the ditch.

The project being proposed by Pleasant Grove is to pipe about 6,000 feet of the ditch near the mouth of American Fork Canyon. There would be two phases to the project which would first pipe an unlined gravel section, followed by piping a second open, concrete-lined section.

Schiess said the infrastructure in the American Fork River was more than 100 years old and would also need some upgrades.

Federal grants may be available to partially fund the project. (Previous estimates have put the cost at around $3.5 million.) Pleasant Grove City would be the project sponsor.

Pleasant Grove officials have also contacted Highland City about piping the last third of the ditch which runs through that city.
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