Utah Valley Water Treatment Plant
The Utah Valley Water Treatment Plant is
located on the east Orem Bench. It was the first direct filtration
plant to be constructed in Utah.
This plant serves Orem and Provo cities. With a capacity of 80
million gallons a day (MGD), this treatment plant is in Orem,
Utah. It treats water conveyed from the Provo River and Deer Creek
Reservoir for Orem City. It was designed to provide municipal
and irrigation water to Provo City and northern Utah County communities.
The raw water source for the plant is in the Provo River at the
Olmsted Diversion, which is about seven stream miles from Deer
Creek Reservoir where water is also stored for treatment plants
in Salt Lake City. There is currently a cooperative watershed
management program in place with various local, state, and federal
agencies.
Regular water quality monitoring is done by the District on Deer
Creek Reservoir, Jordanelle Reservoir, and most tributary streams.
Parameters of concern include phosphorus (total and dissolved),
nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, and total suspended solids. Samples
are taken quarterly for dissolved metals and total organic carbon.
Bacteriological monitoring (Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform, and
Fecal Strep) is performed regularly at stream sites below Deer
Creek Reservoir. Periphyton and phytoplankton samples are analyzed
to determine possible causes of taste and odor problems, assess
the trophic state of the reservoirs, and to track cyclic algal
blooms.
Water quality is very good throughout the Jordanelle/Deer Creek
basin with only seasonal exceedences of water quality criteria.
Most occurrences are related to runoff and sediment transport
and result only in minor problems to treatment.
Facts |
| Type: Direct Filtration |
| Capacity (design): 80 million gallons a day |
| Ultimate Design Capacity: 100 million gallons a day |
| Water Sources (2): Deer Creek Reservoir and Provo River |
| Systems Served: Provo and Orem Cities |
| Filtered Water Reservoir (2): 2 million gallons a day, 15 million gallons a day |
| Total Construction Cost: $14,000,000 |
| Contractor: Jacobsen Construction Company |
| Design Engineer: James M. Montgomery |
| Plant Process: Direct filtration, flocculation basins (8), detention time (30 mins), filters (12) , constant rate filters, filtration rate (7 GPM/Ft2), filtered water reservoirs, wash water reclamation plant, complete monitoring, and alarm system. |