Category: Drinking Water

  • 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

  • Bank Financing: Funding Opportunities

    Banking institutions provide financial assistance to public water systems to design and construct capital improvements to drinking water system infrastructure. This section provides an overview of the financing tools available and an explanation of the process. Banks lend money to public water systems and like other funding partners evidence that loan with one of two…

  • Water User (or Demand Side) Efficiencies: Energy Saving Investigation Process

    What do the icons below mean? Implement increasing block water rates (with many tiers), including possible surcharges to higher demand customers. Doing this is the first step to actively encourage customers to be more involved in water conservation measures. Investigate zero based rates which provide no water in the base charge. Review the feasibility of…

  • Technology and SCADA Efficiencies: Energy Saving Investigation Process

    What do the icons below mean? Key to the operation of a successful advanced energy management strategy is the close and persistent review of pumping and energy data. While many SCADA systems are adept at general plant operations, an advanced system requires more analysis of the situations at hand, and must make more complex decisions,…

  • System Modeling Efficiencies: Energy Saving Investigation Process

    What do the icons below mean? One of the first steps necessary to the proper development a comprehensive energy audit of a system is to perform an extended period computer model to evaluate the source, distribution, and pumping system’s functions and performance. While the modeling can be somewhat complex, system personnel and others can assist…

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