The bucolic hamlet (a few miles south of Logan) cannot get water from Garr Spring during the summer because the farmers “have dibs” on that water at that time. They needed a solution to be able to have good drinkable water year round, their solution was to insert 35 million gallons of the Garr Spring water underground for storage during the winter so that when summer hit and water was depleting they could pull from the storage water. This plan however, was shot down by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality because the septic systems were a source of nitrate and they were connected to their neighboring towns sewage systems which would push the pollution down to those towns. The nitrate pollution can degrade aquatic ecosystems and can be toxic to humans, if a baby 6 months or younger drinks water that has 10 milligrams per liter of nitrate pollution they can become severely ill with Blue Baby Syndrome, it affects the oxygen and they could even die.

All information found at: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2019/04/29/plan-store-underground/