[CPEO-MEF] Hill Air Force Base Not Affecting Roy Water

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Utah
KTVX (ABC News)
Hill Air Force Base Not Affecting Roy Water
LAST UPDATE: 6/16/2003 4:11:16 PM

ROY, Utah (AP) -- Roy water is safe and not threatened by contamination
from Hill Air Force Base, city officials said.

A report based on tests of water during 1992 found the city's water was
safe.

Dale Searcy, the city's water control specialist, said the plume of
contaminants linked to Hill Air Force Base poses no threat to the city's
water supply.

More than 75 percent of the city's water is supplied by Weber Basin
Water Conservancy District and the remaining 25 percent comes from wells
that are outside the plume, he said.

The contaminated water is in a shallow aquifer, while the city's wells
are almost 1,000 feet deep and separated from the shallow aquifer by
several layers of clay.

"We have two things working for us. Our three wells we are using are not
in the plume area, they are quite a ways to the north; and No. 2, there
are three different water levels going to the Sunset aquifer and it
really is never going to get into the Delta aquifer," Searcy said. The
city's wells feed off the Delta aquifer.

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