DDW-2024-013792

December 4, 2024
Mike Leonhardt
Garden City
69 North Paradise Parkway
Garden City, Utah 84028
Subject:Plan Approval, Well Drilling, Hodges Canyon Well Drilling(WS007);
Garden City, System #17002, File #17399
Dear Mike Leonhardt:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the plans and specifications for the proposed Hodes Canyon Well drilling project from your consultant, Quinn
Dance, P.E. with J-U-B Engineers, on November 1, 2024. Review comments were provided on November 12, 2024. Revised plans and specifications addressing the comments were received on December
2, 2024.
We understand that this project consists of the drilling, constructing, developing, and testing of a 12-inch diameter well to a depth of approximately 800 feet. The proposed well will
also include a 22-inch diameter conductor casing to 60 feet. A 2-inch annular grout seal will be placed around the conductor casing from 0-60 feet and production casing from 0-100 feet.
The new well will be identified as Hodges Canyon Well (WS007) in the Division’s database.
We have received the following information for Hodges Canyon Well (WS007):
Plans and specifications for borehole and well drilling.
Preliminary Evaluation Report.
We have completed our review of the plans and specifications, stamped and signed by Quinn Dance, P.E., and dated October 31, 2024, and found they basically comply with the applicable
portions of Utah’s Administrative Rules for Public Drinking Water Systems. On this basis, the plans for drilling Hodges Canyon Well (WS007) are hereby approved. This approval pertains
to well drilling, development, aquifer testing, and disinfection of Hodges Canyon Well only. Please be aware that discharge permits may be required by Utah Division of Water Quality
for discharges generated during well drilling and aquifer drawdown testing.
The Utah Division of Water Rights (State Engineer’s Office) regulates the drilling of water wells. Before the drilling of a well commences, the well driller must receive a start card
from the State Engineer’s Office. Please be aware that, for public drinking water supply wells, in addition to the Division of Drinking Water’s R309-515 rule, the Division of Water Rights’
rule R655-4 also applies and shall be followed.
After drilling is completed, you are required to submit additional information outlined in R309-515-6(5)(b) and (c) for review andobtain an approval from the Director for equipping this
well and constructing discharge piping and infrastructure necessary for introducing the well water into the distribution system. After obtaining the well equipping approval, you’ll then
be required to obtain an Operating Permit before Hodges Canyon Well (WS007) may be put in service. A checklist outlining the well approval process, including the items required for well
equipping and an Operating Permit, is enclosed for your information.
Please label the well water sample collected for new source chemical analysis with your water system number UTAH17002 and WS007 (for both the facility ID and sample point ID) on all
laboratory forms for each individual source. This will ensure proper identification and entry of the new source chemical analysis results in our database.
Approvals or permits from the local authority or county may be necessary before beginning construction of this project. As the project proceeds, notice of any changes in the approved
design, as well as any change affecting the quantity or quality of the delivered water, must be submitted to the Division. We may also conduct interim and final inspections of this project.
Please notify us when actual construction begins so that these inspections can be scheduled.
This approval must be renewed if construction has not begun or if substantial materials have not been ordered within one year of the date of this letter.
Concurrence – Preliminary Evaluation Report
The Division received the Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) for the Hodges Canyon Well (WS007) from your consultant, John De Leon, P.E. and JUB Engineers, Inc on October 10, 2024,
with additional information requested and received October 28, 2024. The Division concurs with this report. This PER must be refined, and a complete Drinking Water Source Protection
(DWSP) Plan is submitted within one (1) year of the date of this letter. Refer to R309-600-13(6) and R309-600-7(1). You must submit proof that the delineation has been submitted to Garden
City to be covered under the Garden City Drinking Water Source Protection Ordinance and Rich County to be covered under the Rich County Drinking Water Source Protection Ordinance before
the well can receive an operating permit.
Please contact Melissa Noble at [phone] or at [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns about the review of your Preliminary Evaluation Report.
If you have any questions regarding this approval, please contact Julie Cobleigh, of this office, at [phone], or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
JJC/MNN/mrn/mdbEnclosure — Well Approval Checklistcc:Ben Harker, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail] Dance, J-U-B Engineers, [e-mail] Leonhardt, Garden City,
[e-mail] Cobleigh, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Noble, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
jcobleigh 17002 17399 WS007 Drilling PADivision of Drinking WaterChecklist for New Public Drinking Water Wells
(per Utah Administrative Code, Rule R309-515-6)
System Name:System Number:Well Name & Description:1.Approval to Drill the Well
☐Project Notification Form (PNF)
☐Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) concurrence
☐Well drilling specifications and plans
☐Valid Start Card or authorization to drill letter from the Division of Water Rights2.Approval to Equip the Well
☐PNF (if the well drilling and well equipping are designed by different consultants)
☐Well location data
☐Certification of well seal
☐Well driller’s report (well log)
☐Aquifer drawdown test results (step drawdown test & constant-rate test) for well yield determination
☐Chemical analyses of the well water
☐Plans and specifications for equipping the well

☐Pump information (e.g., pump specifications, pump curve & operating point, motor information, etc.)
☐Well head discharge piping
☐Well house design3.Operating Permit to Introduce the Well Water
☐Documentation of valid water right(s)
☐Recorded land use agreements, or documentation that the requirements for coverage under the City/County source protection ordinance have been met
☐Design engineer’s certification of conformance with plan approval conditions
☐Design engineer’s certification of rule conformance for any deviation from approved plans
☐As-built or record drawings
☐Evidence of O&M manual delivery to system owner
☐Satisfactory bacteriological results as evidence of proper flushing and disinfection