On Monday, Weber County officials and other interested parties participated in a ribbon cutting for a new regional wastewater lift station and conveyance line located around 5900 W 900 S in Western Weber County.

Stephanie Russell, Weber County economic development director and government relations liaison, said in a press release about the event that the project is a result of collaboration and commitment to deliver services to this side of the county.

“This project represents years of planning and collaboration to ensure Western Weber County is prepared for long-term growth,” she said in the release. “We worked strategically to leverage Utah’s economic development tools — including tax increment financing, public infrastructure districts, state partnerships and private investment — to deliver critical regional infrastructure in a way that minimizes the burden on existing Weber County taxpayers. This approach allows growth to help pay for growth while creating long-term benefits for residents, businesses and the broader community.”

The release noted the lift station is designed to handle 6 million gallons of wastewater per day and provides critical infrastructure capacity needed to support long-term residential, commercial and industrial growth.

“Our responsibility as local leaders is to plan ahead so future generations have opportunities to live, work and raise their families right here in Weber County,” Gage Froerer, Weber County commissioner, said in the release. “Projects like this create the infrastructure backbone needed to support quality jobs, attainable housing and long-term economic growth.”

According to the release, the project had originally been planned as a way to address aging sewer lagoons within the Little Mountain Service Area before officials decided this would be the perfect opportunity to serve wider elements of the county’s anticipated growth, including:

• “The 9,000-acre West Weber Inland Port project area.
• “More than 14,000 entitled residential units identified in the Western Weber General Plan.
• “Future commercial, industrial and employment growth throughout the region.”

Stephanie Pack, associate vice president of business development, Utah Inland Port Authority, said she’s impressed at the work that Weber County is putting into infrastructure.

“Our role is to partner with local communities to help move projects from vision to implementation,” she said in the release. “Weber County has done tremendous work planning for growth in Western Weber, and this infrastructure milestone demonstrates what can happen when local governments, state partners and private investment align around a shared vision.”

Weber County Public Relations Manager Jessika Clark told the Standard-Examiner Thursday that, pending there are no delays in construction, it’s anticipated that the project will be finished sometime next year.