Roosevelt City will soon receive a major upgrade to the city’s water system with the addition of a 2 million gallon water storage tank. According to a press release issued on Tuesday, Utah’s Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) awarded Roosevelt City $2.536 million dollars for the storage tank’s construction at the Hayden Well Field, the city’s primary source of culinary water. The Hayden Well Field currently has a 300,000 gallon tank which, for reference, is less water than the pools at the Aquatic Center hold. This means the City has been running approximately 440 million gallons of water annually through a tank that holds less water than the City pools. “Water sustains a community,” shares Interim City Manager and Water Source Director Ryan Clayburn. “The City’s goal is to deliver the best quality water we can at a fair price. This project is going to allow us to do that…When CIB was willing to work with us and understood the project, it felt like it was a homerun for us. It is a much needed project and the time is now. We feel like we have quality water at a competitive rate and we want to keep it that way.” The current tank was constructed in the 1980s at a time when the City had less than 1,000 customers compared to today’s 2,700 customers plus additional wholesale and oilfield customers. The CIB funds were awarded as a 50/50 loan and grant combination with a 0.5 percent interest rate on the loan portion. Roosevelt City plans to put the project out to bid this winter with the hope for construction to begin in the spring of 2021.
