Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski clambered aboard an excavator in drying bed no. 7 of North Salt Lake’s Water Reclamation Facility on Tuesday and ceremoniously deposited the first load of broken-up concrete into a readied dump truck.
The event marked the official beginning of construction on the largest public utilities project in Salt Lake City history outside the airport: a $528 million wastewater treatment facility.
“Most of us take for granted the vast amount of technical know-how and infrastructure that is required to treat and process our waste," Biskupski said. "We flush and, ‘poof,’ it’s gone and we think nothing more about it.