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City makes another payment on well No. 8

May 5, 2008 - 9:18pm — Mathias Baden

Jordan will make another payment on the Well No. 8 project.

Tonight, the city council OK'd spending of $62,007.69 from the bond proceeds it borrowed last year.

The well is located at the water treatment plant, which is near St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in lowertown Jordan.

City Engineer Carol Caron said the well has been fully drilled and televised so that city officials can see its level of production.

"It looks like it's going to be a very good well for us," Caron said. "A lot of water." 


So far, well No. 8 is 220 feet deep

January 7, 2008 - 11:41pm — Mathias Baden

So far, well No. 8 is 220 feet deep.

It's got to 380 more feet to reach 600 feet, where it will tap into the Mt. Simon aquifer.

It should be operational by February, said Dave Bendzick, Jordan Public Works director.

The Jordan City Council approved a partial payment of $25,000 to E.H. Renner, the company doing the digging behind the water treatment plant near St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in lowertown Jordan.


Cost to drill well goes down

November 20, 2007 - 1:59am — Mathias Baden

Contractor E.H. Renner recently began drilling Well No. 8.


Drilling Well No.8

September 4, 2007 - 10:00pm — Mathias Baden

Come 2009, Jordan will have a new well from which to draw water.


No one speaks at hearing on wellhead protection

April 2, 2007 - 11:50pm — Mathias Baden

No audience members came forward to speak at a public hearing in regard to the wellhead protection plan for Jordan's drinking water supply wells.


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