Beaver approves about $47,900 water advance for Baker Canyon line, structured as a loan
Beaver's council approved a Drinking Water Hardship Fund advance of about $47,900 to plan and engineer repairs to the culinary waterline damaged at the base of Baker Canyon. The agreement is a loan for now; the city intends to seek conversion to a grant.
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Beaver's City Council voted Sept. 8, 2026 to take a Drinking Water Hardship Fund advance of approximately $47,900 to plan and engineer work on the culinary waterline damaged at the base of Baker Canyon, according to the meeting minutes. [1]
City Manager Monte Hawkins described the agreement as funding to establish a project scope. The minutes say the agreement is currently structured as a loan and that the city intends to apply to convert it to grant funding when it requests the related booster pump project. [1]
The vote
Council Member Lance Cox moved to approve the advance agreement and Council Member Randy Hunter seconded. The motion passed unanimously. [1]
The minutes record the amount as approximately $47,900. A separate note in the same item reads 47,000. [1]
The council approved the Sept. 8 minutes at its Sept. 22 meeting on a motion by Council Member David Albrecht, seconded by Council Member Hunter Holt. [2]
An approved advance structured as a loan is not a grant. The amount is described in the minutes as approximate, and one note in the same item reads 47,000.
Sources
Reporting by The Utah Ledger from the public records above. AI-assisted, checked against those records.