The Senate passed 98-1 Thursday an appropriations bill with more than $55 million for Utah water projects.
That includes almost $45 million for continued construction of the Central Utah Project, designed mostly to bring water from eastern Utah to the Wasatch Front.Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, the only Utah member of Congress on an appropriations committee, pushed such funding.
The bill also included $1.5 million for flood control and $750,000 for environmental restoration work on the upper Jordan River.
It had another $150,000 for Provo-area flood control studies; $3 million for the Tooele Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Project; and $4.97 million for the Strawberry Valley Project.
It also included $200,000 to assist a Washington County Water Conservancy District study on the impacts of the proposed Sand Hollow Storage Project.
It also included $43,000 to complete repairs on Scofield Reservoir,; $61,000 for the Hyrum Project; $30,000 for the Moon Lake Project; $42,000 for the Newton Project; $59,000 for the Ogden River Project; and $217,000 for the Weber River Project.
The bill now goes to a House-Senate conference to work out differences between similar bills passed by both houses.