Can St. George (and Utah) afford a Lake Powell pipeline?

Can St. George (and Utah) afford a Lake Powell pipeline?

By Brandon Loomis
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jan 28, 2012 09:58AM MDT

St. George • Just turning on the faucet for the first time in a new home here in Utah’s corner of the Mojave Desert could cost more than $20,000 a generation from now.
That’s not a worst-case scenario. It’s the plan.
Washington County charges about $5,800 in impact fees for each new residence to cover water development that quenches growing demand in this retirement haven. The fees rise about 5 percent a year in anticipation of a planned $1.2 billion Lake Powell pipeline that Utah lawmakers will...

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