Last Revised 12/10/2007
Specific System Design Requirements
- Water Demand Requirements: Application efficiency of 65%
- Annual requirement: 36 inches with peak demands of 11.88 gpm/acre
- Pressure ranges from 40-100 psi
- Maximum velocity of 5 fps (lines less than 24) 7 fps (lines greater than 24)
- Minimum pipe size of 8-inches
- Secondary main line must be a minimum size of 36 inches.
- Pipe to be used must be purple C-900 PVC or C-905 PVC
- All pipe must have a minimum cover of 2-feet
- 1 inch IPS individual connections or 2 inch shared (dual) connections
- Secondary lines should be installed on the South and West side of street and located in the parkstrip.
General Design Requirements
- In all cases, the canal must be empty for construction of a weir/pump station; therefore, the construction must be completed between the months of October and April.
- All weir designs must be approved by the Canal Company and South Jordan City.
- For specific design guidelines contact the Canal Company.
Pump Design Requirements
- All new weirs must be installed with a self-cleaning rotating screen.
- Flow rates on pump designs will need to be designed accordingly.
- Centrifugal pumps only to be used for individual lots (1.5 hp usually works).
- All pumps adjacent to canal should be self-priming or grading to allow for gravity feed from supply canal.
- All community pumps shall be Centrifugal or turbine type (all in front of lots).
- All pump stations shall be design above ground.
- All pump stations must have a dedicated source of pressurized water, fire hose, valve and nozzle to be provided for sump clean out with suitable drain system for clean-out water.
- All pump houses must be designed for easy crane access around the building and appropriate sky-light access to the pumps and other heavy equipment.
South Jordan Canal Company
Submit application to Larry Jacobson (President)
11515 S. 1300 W.
South Jordan City, UT 84095
The application will then be submitted to SLCFCD for approval.
Indicate the acreage to be irrigated, number of shares dedicated, and how the system will work with proposed engineering design.
Utah Lake Distributing Company & Welby-Jacob Water Users Company
The design will be submitted to the Canal Company's Engineers, and then submitted to the board for approval. Application must also be approved by SLCFCD
Contact Franson Noble at (801) 756-0309
No new weirs will be allowed on the ULDC Canal.
Utah & Salt Lake Canal Company
Submit application to Nelson Peterson (President)
P.O. Box 1181,
West Jordan, UT 84084
Application must also be approved by SLCFCD.
Jennifer at South Jordan City has an example weir design for this canal
