A small farm town in Millard County, which has a population of fewer than 500 people, has to come up with as much as $8 million in order to upgrade its culinary water system.
Holden, Utah sits along I-15 in central Utah and about 400 people call it home.
Continued drought conditions have created a drop in the town's spring water availability by about 40 percent."So we've seen this, this drop over time, and we knew that we're getting down to the point where, you know, we were going to be in trouble," Mayor Fox explained."So it was not, it was not a surprise.
"Cost is always a concern," Fox explained."We have a lot of retired people, people on fixed incomes. And so when it comes to raising water rates, it's a concern for the council. It's a concern for myself." Fox doesn't know the rate increase to customers yet, as it depends on the final cost to build a storage tank and drill wells. It could rise by another 38 dollars per month to cap at 64 dollars.
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