In 2005, I attended a meeting at Dixie State College in St. George at which Ron Thompson, general manager of the Washington County Water Conservancy District, said there was enough water to support a population of 260,000 people. He said the Lake Powell pipeline would cost $560,000 and could support an additional 500,000 people for a total population of 760,000.
News reports show how wrong he was and how poorly managed this project has been. For the state to spend $33 million over the past 10 years for an incomplete report to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shows gross mismanagement.