Springville's 400 South to close early for pipeline project

(Daily Herald) The intersection at 400 South and 400 East in Springville will be closing a week ahead of schedule to make way for the ongoing Central Utah Water Conservancy District's pipeline project.

City and CUWCD officials made the decision Friday to separate the project into phases; rather than closing it for four weeks starting mid-March as planned, they will close it Tuesday through March 20 and finish the second phase at a still-to-be-determined later date.

The project, headed up by COP Construction, will eventually run water from Strawberry Reservoir to Salt Lake City. In the process of laying the pipeline, crews also are replacing Springville's water infrastructure, saving the city something to the tune of $2 million in improvements, said CUWCD representative Mike Stansfield.

In fact, the various opening and closings of different sections of 400 East are a result of four different crews working on different things -- each allotted two blocks at a time -- including the pipeline, city pipes and water laterals to individual homes.

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