The Central Utah Water Conservancy District just picked Jacobs to engineer a $750 million overhaul of the Strawberry High Line Canal.
The canal dates back to around 1916, and the project would convert the open-air waterway into a buried, pressurized pipeline system.
Ditch to Pipe:
The canal currently hauls water from Strawberry Reservoir and the Spanish Fork River to farms and cities across south Utah County and eastern Juab County. Once it's enclosed, the old corridor gets a second life too.
New buried pipelines replace the open canal
A pump station and related infrastructure round out the system
The old canal right-of-way becomes a regional trail
Jacobs is teaming up with Bowen Collins & Associates on design and construction-phase support, according to the company. The goal: keep water flowing to agriculture while backing up a region expecting roughly 420,000 more residents down the line.
Jacobs EVP Tom Meinhart put it plainly, saying modernizing this kind of infrastructure is essential for keeping communities running as Utah keeps growing, per the release.
Old Ditches, New Tricks: Open canals bleed water to evaporation and seepage the whole way down the line. Sealing that same flow inside a pipe is a fix a lot of Western water districts have been circling for years, and now it's Utah's turn.
Utah's population isn't slowing down, and neither is its infrastructure to-do list. This one's a multi-year build to watch.
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