DDW-2025-002893

March 28, 2025
Tracy Hobart Feltner
Spring Creek Water Users
1574 South 4450 West
Cedar City, Utah 84720
Subject:Operating Permit, Well Equipping, Spring Creek Well REPL-1 (WS004);
Spring Creek Water Users, System #11052, File #12623, SRF #3F1787
Dear Tracy Feltner:The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received your request for the Operating Permit for the Spring Creek Well REPL-1 from James Saunders, Jones & DeMille
Engineering, on March 20, 2024. The Division issued Plan Approval for drilling this well on May 9, 2024, and Plan Approval for equipping this well on September 29, 2021. Division staff
conducted an onsite construction inspection of this project on March 20, 2024.
Our understanding of the project was to construct conveyance piping from this replacement well and use the well house and required discharge equipment from the existing Spring Creek
Well that was disconnected from the system and abandoned. This included using the existing smooth nose sample tap, check valve, pump to waste discharge line, flow meter, air vac valve,
and shut-off valve. In addition, the existing submersible pump was removed from the Spring Creek Well (WS001) and was installed in the Spring Creek Well REPL-1. This is a 15 HP submersible
pump that has the ability to pump 125 gallons per minute (gpm). This well is identified as WS004 in the Division’s database.
We have received the following information for Spring Creek Well REPL-1:
Design engineer’s statement of conformance with approval conditions
Documentation of valid water right. (73-2573)
Evidence of O&M manual delivery.
As-built or record drawings.
Satisfactory bacteriological results as evidence of proper disinfection and flushing.
We have determined that all conditions of operating permit issuance have been met. On this basis, an Operating Permit for Spring Creek Well REPL-1is hereby issued as constituted by this
letter. You may now place Spring Creek Well REPL-1 (WS004), in service in your water system and Spring Creek Well (WS001) will be made Inactive and Abandoned in your system’s inventory.
Please maintain a copy of this letter with your permanent records for future reference.
The equipped well pump capacity of Spring Creek Well REPL-1 is 125 gallons per minute (gpm). The safe yield of Spring Creek Well REPL-1 is rated at 287 gpm, which is calculated based
on two-thirds of the constant-rate aquifer drawdown test results at 430 gpm. The safe yield of 267 gpm is the basis for determining the maximum number of connections that Spring Creek
Well REPL-1 can serve. In this case, even though this well’s safe yield is calculated to be 287gpm, the equipped pump capacity of 125gpm is the physical limiting factor of well capacity.
Drinking Water Source Protection Requirement
The Division has reviewed the Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for this source submitted by your consultant on December 12, 2023. The Division concurs with this report. The
due date for submitting the next updated DWSP plan is December 31, 2028.
Please contact Noah Zorsky, P.G., at [phone] or at [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns about the review of your DWSP or future updates.
If you have any questions regarding this Operating Permit, please contact J. Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ Southwest District Office, at [phone], or Michael Newberry, P.E., Permitting
and Engineering Manager, at [phone].
Sincerely,
Russell Seeley, P.E.
Assistant Director
JPW/NAZ/mrn/mdbcc: Jeremy Roberts, Southwest Utah Public Health Department, [e-mail] Saunders, Jones & DeMille Engineering, [e-mail] Hobart
Feltner, Spring Creek Water Users, [e-mail]. Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ Southwest District Office, [e-mail] Pattee, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Jennifer Yee, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Noah Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Well (D)