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Delivering Drinking, Industrial, and Irrigation Water Amid the Pandemic
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38 | MUNICIPAL WATER LEADER | JUNE 2020 COVID-19 SPECIAL ISSUE
Municipal Water Leader: Please tell us about yourself and about WBWCD. Tage Flint: I’m the general manager of WBWCD. We’re the wholesale water utility for the northern counties of Utah. We serve about 700,000 people in five counties and are the sponsor of the Weber Basin Project, which is a Bureau of Reclamation project from the 1950s and 1960s that includes seven major dams, three hydropower plants, four drinking water treatment plants, and an extensive groundwater well and exchange system. We’re distinctive in that we supply water across the whole spectrum. We deliver drinking water municipalwaterleader.com
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eber Basin Water Conservancy District (WBWCB) is the regional water supplier within the Ogden and Weber River drainage areas, supplying water to 700,000 people within five counties in Utah. WBWCD delivers approximately 230,000 acre-feet a year of wholesale municipal, agricultural, irrigation, and industrial water through a system including seven large storage reservoirs, three hydropower generation plants, four water treatment plants, and hundreds of miles of canals, tunnels, aqueducts, and pipelines. In this interview, Tage Flint, WBWCD’s general manager and CEO, tells Municipal Water Leader about what the district has been doing to continue operations during the pandemic.
