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This section provides a record of monthly articles describing our Department history and current events. LeRoy Hooton, our past director for 27 years, contributes regularly to these publications along with our staff, administration, and current Director Jeff Niermeyer.

11/9/2009	Thirteenth East Reservoir - A Bit of History Disappears
10/14/2009	Salt Lake City Old Conveyance System "Updated From 2007"
9/28/2009	The Wonder of Glaciers
8/29/2009	Do you know what a miner's inch is?
8/02/2009	The year we "floated" in the Pioneer Days of '47 Parade
6/29/2009	Teton Dam Failure Redux
5/29/2009	Clean Water Act Progress and Challenges
4/7/2009	The Owens Valley -- Los Angeles Water Saga
3/23/2009	Invasive Quagga Mussels Found In Two Utah Reservoirs
1/26/2009	President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, America's Conservationist
1/09/2009	Director's 2008 Year End Report
1/07/2009	Colorado River: Changing the Watermaster
12/01/2008	Provo Reservoir Canal Enclosure Project
9/26/2008	Windmills
9/26/2008	The Grand Coulee Dam: The mightiest thing built by man
9/02/2008	SLC Stormwater Division Celebrates A Century of Service
7/22/2008	Our Pioneer Legacy
6/27/2008	Carp to be removed from Utah Lake
5/29/2008	Salt Lake City Water Distribution Operations
3/31/2008	Colorado River Sustainability Questioned
3/21/2008	GIS Revolutionizes Utility's Efficiencies
2/27/2008	History - Water Department (Public Utilities) Organization 1912 - 2006
2/21/2008	Snow measurements are critical to water resource management in the west
1/28/2008	Super Bowl Super Flush
1/17/2008	Salt Lake City's Snowpack Improves
1/15/2008	Director's 2007 Year End Report
1/4/2008	Three Salt Lake City Public Utilities Advisory Committee Members Honored
12/18/2007	Colorado River Shortage Accord Signed
12/12/2007	Global Warming and Climate Change: Is the Quantity of Utah’s Water Resources at Risk?
12/11/2007	LeRoy Hooton Retires
9/27/2007	Non-Resident Population Distorts Salt Lake City's Per Capita Water Consumption Results
9/20/2007	Central Utah Water Conservancy District deeds over water facilities to Metro and Jordan Valley Conservancy District
9/05/2007	Metro Water Project Cerebration
8/29/2007	Reclamation Plant Wetlands Project is 20 years old in October
8/23/2007	Salt Lake City Reclamation Plant Receives National Award
7/25/2007	Hot and Dry Year
7/19/2007	Pioneers of 47- Pioneer Irrigations
7/10/2007	Little Dell Project Completed
6/27/2007	Salt Lake City 's Old Conveyance Systems
6/8/2007	Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Park
65/30/2007	YouthCity! H2O Adventures
65/24/2007	'07 Water Supply Outlook
65/23/2007	Salt Lake City Initiates Pharmaceutical Drug Collection Program
64/27/2007	Salt Lake City Water and Sewer Infrastructure
64/10/2007	Protecting Our Watersheds Equals Protecting Our Future
64/9/2007	Water is Life, and Infrastructure Makes it Happen By Amy Santos of UIM (PDF)
64/6/2007	MWDSLS Point of the Mountain Aqueduct Completed
64/5/2007	Winter Snowpack Low in Wasatch Mountains
63/26/2007	Salt Lake City Water Reclamation Plant Upgrade Startup Underway
63/1/2007	Wasatch Front Forum: Wasatch Wilderness
62/27/2007	Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub Projects
61/26/2007	Filter Media Replacement at the Big Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant
61/26/2007	Public Utilities Purchases Donut Falls Watershed Property
61/17/2007	The Art of Snowmaking
61/3/2007	Director's 2006 Year End Report
61/2/2007	Peace on the Colorado River ?
612/6/2006	Continuing The Garden Indoors
612/4/2006	Per Capita Water Consumption Calculations Need Refinements
611/7/2006	Municipal Sewer and Water - We all Live Down Stream (PDF)
610/23/2006	Salt Lake City Kicks Up Invasive Weed Program
69/25/2006	Southern Nevada Water Authority's water development project in Snake Valley causes concern in Utah
68/21/2006	Wildflower Festival in Full Bloom!
67/27/2006	Watershed Reservoirs Aid in the Recovery of the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout
66/26/2006	SLC Reclamation Plant Earns Compliance Award
65/30/2006	Water Quality Fair at Salt Lake City 's Hogle Zoo
65/10/2006	A Model of Self-Sufficiency
64/26/2006	CIPP Trenchless Pipe Repair
64/20/2006	2006 Spring Run-off Watch
64/04/2006	Salt Lake City Conducts UV Pilot Study
63/27/2006	Utah 's Water Future
63/3/2006	WEF/AWWA Joint Management Conference - Welcoming Remarks
61/27/2006	Groundwater Contaminated
12/29/2005	2005 Director's Report given to the Salt Lake City Public Utilities
12/21/2005	2005 Colorado River Water Users Association Meeting
11/21/2005	Leaf Bags
11/14/2005	Reuse Feasibility Study 2005 (PDF)
11/07/2005	WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT STORM WATER
11/03/2005	Metro Water Project
10/13/2005	SLC Water Storage Remains Good at End of ‘05 Water Year
10/12/2005	City Creek Water Treatment Plant Reconstruction Project
09/08/2005	Flashback—Water Development Milestones
08/17/2005	Water Treatment Plants receive EPA Partnership Recognition for Safe Water
08/17/2005	SLC Stormwater Basins Provide Multiple Benefits
08/02/2005	SLC Recognized For EPA Partnership for Safe Water
07/15/2005	Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake & Sandy Construction Projects Underway
06/21/2005	SLC Goes Beyond Gold with Precast Concrete Box Culvert Storm Drain (PDF)
06/10/2005	Reclamation Plant Receives 15^th NACWA Gold Award
06/01/2005	Urban Stew
05/23/2005	SLC earns two Quality Growth Awards
05/12/2005	Little Dell Dam and Reservoir Project
04/19/2005	Pharmaceutically Active Compounds
04/13/05	GIS Integration Proves Successful for Managing Salt Lake City's Water, Wastewater, and Storm Water Utilities (Published in Water Writes 2005) (PDF)
03/31/2005	Little Dell Dam Inspection
02/07/2005	Suicide Rock and the Parley’s Canyon Reservoir
01/12/2005	Salt Lake City’s First Piped Public Water System

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