Interesting information about our Wasatch Watershed...

Welcome to the Wastach Front Watershed! The Wasatch Mountains provide high quality drinking water for the Salt Lake Valley. There are seven major drainages, twenty lakes and reservoirs, three wilderness areas, a nature preserve and four major ski resorts within the Salt Lake Watershed.

Salt Lake City Public Utilities Department delivers between 50 million and 210 million gallons of water daily to nearly 405,000 people in Salt Lake City and eastern Salt Lake County.

To meet the demand for this service, the department treats and transports more than 100,000 acre feet of water annually through a system fed by Little Dell, Deer Creek Reservoir, City Creek, Parley's, Big and Little Cottonwood streams, and deep wells throughout the Salt Lake Valley. Salt Lake City's system is one of the world's most complex culinary water systems because of the number of water sources and differences in service elevations.

The City water supply meets or exceeds all water quality requirements set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Utah State Department of Health, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.