Category: Drinking Water

  • Operator Certification: Utah Division of Drinking Water

    Public Water Systems may be required to have a certified Direct Responsible Charge Operator at a certain grade level depending on the system’s classification, population, and complexity. Certified operators help improve compliance with regulations, minimize public health concerns, and maximize the performance of the system. Water Operators protect water sources, monitor water usage, treat the…

  • System Sizing and Capacity Evaluation

    Revisions to the Utah Safe Drinking Water Act, Utah Code 19-4, are effective on May 8, 2018. The revisions impose new requirements on Public Water Systems to collect and report water use data to the state of Utah. 

  • Special Projects: DDW Rules

    Compliance info for Drinking Water Rules.

  • Monitoring: DDW Rules

    Monitoring info about Drinking Water Rules.

  • Enforcement: DDW Rules

    Enforcement info for Drinking Water Rules.

  • Compliance: Division of Drinking Water

    Rules enforcement, monitoring, and compliance pages.

  • Pre-Design Conference: Significant Drinking Water Issues

    How much drinking water will your plant use for facility processes and employee consumptive use? Estimate the peak day demand (gpm) and annual total demand (acre-feet). What are the fire suppression requirements for your plant? For example, 2,000 gpm for a 2-hour duration. Will your plant obtain drinking water from an existing municipality? If yes,…

  • Document Repository: Division of Drinking Water

    This page presents quick links to DDW Web pages and documents that are not presently linked from anywhere else within this site. External Links

  • Drinking Water Permitting

    Water systems serving 25 or more people for more than 60-days yearly, or having 15 or more residential connections year-round, are subject to Utah Public Drinking Water Rules and must obtain a permit known as an approval. General Plan Approval Process Process Overview Systems developing their own water supply must meet state standards by submitting…

  • March 1, 2018 Agenda: Drinking Water Board

    Call to Order—Chairman Hansens

  • Rocky Mountain Power’s wattsmart® Program: Funding Opportunities

    Rocky Mountain Power offers a variety of ways to assist customers in maximizing the efficient utilization of electricity. Customer participation is voluntary and is initiated by following the participation procedures on the wattsmart® Business Section of the Rocky Mountain Power Website. The wattsmart® Business Program offers a variety of services and cash incentives to encourage…

  • Utah’s Office of Energy Development’s U-Save Energy Fund Program: Funding Opportunities

    The Utah U-Save Energy Fund Program (“U-Save”) finances energy-related cost reduction retrofits for publicly-owned buildings, including: state, tribal, municipal (city and county, which can include publicly-owned drinking water systems), public school districts, charter schools, public colleges, and public university facilities. Through U-Save, low interest rate loans are provided to assist these institutions in financing their…

  • Drinking Water Board’s SRF Program: Funding Opportunities

    The Drinking Water Board administers the State’s Revolving Fund which provides financial assistance to public drinking water systems for water project construction.  The Division of Drinking Water (the Division or DDW), acting as staff to the Drinking Water Board (the Board), provides oversight to the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) financial assistance program.  The…

  • Energy Service Companies: Funding Opportunities

    Energy performance contracting is a method of procurement that enables public entities to select a partner in making energy efficiency improvements to their facilities, without the need for capital expenditures.  Enabled in Utah by the State legislature (Utah Code 11-44) this method of construction has three significant requirements: annual savings must exceed annual project repayment…

  • Self-funding Through Energy Savings: Funding Opportunities

    Some communities may be able to self-fund energy efficient projects. This is typically done with a fund within the city’s budget that is not needed for a couple of years. The responsible party of the fund (let’s call it the “Agency Fund”) will arrange to invest its money into the city’s water fund to build…

  • Funding Opportunities: Drinking Water Energy (Cost) Savings Program

    Drinking Water Board’s State Revolving Fund (SRF) Program Utah’s Office of Energy Development’s U-Save Energy Fund Program Energy Service Companies Rocky Mountain Power’s Wattsmart Program Self-funding Through Energy Savings Bank Financing

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