Draper City is asking residents in Suncrest and Utah County neighborhoods to conserve water through Friday, Oct. 23, while crews work on the next phase of the water system along Traverse Ridge Road.
According to a report published Oct. 21, the city requested that residents be aware of water usage and conserve wherever possible to help avoid potential outages. While water service is expected to continue normally, the city noted that outages are possible if usage runs high during the construction phase.
The construction work is being performed on a line that carries all the water used in the Suncrest area and the Utah County portion of Draper. According to a previous phase notice published through the city's Notify Draper alert service, the line under construction serves these specific areas.
Draper's 2025 water conservation plan places this area in Zone 3, which runs along the top of Traverse Mountain and down the south slope into Utah County. In this zone, water is pumped from Zone 2 in stages from the lower zone 3.
The city's water system faces specific infrastructure constraints. Draper's general plan, specifically the Water Use and Preservation Element added by Ordinance #1694 on Dec. 2, 2025, states that the service area requires additional pumps and transmission lines in the foothills of Suncrest Drive to ensure supply during emergencies or source failures. The element identifies limited redundancy as a challenge.
Currently, Draper's system is estimated to serve 23,205 people, which is roughly 45% of the city's 51,560 residents. The system uses 3,871 residential and 335 commercial, industrial, and institutional connections. In 2024, total water used in the system, including lost water, was 4,297.97 acre-feet.
The Utah Division of Drinking Water's fiscal 2027 agency plan includes seven Draper City drinking water projects with a combined estimated cost of $60.5 million. These projects include Redundant Supply to Suncrest, estimated at $24 million, and the WaterPro Traverse Interconnect, estimated at $2 million.
Other listed projects include Upper Traverse Ridge ($3.5 million), Deer Ridge Drive to Tank 4 ($3 million), PS 1 and 2 to PS 3 ($14 million), PRV Replacements ($12 million), and Pump Station 3 ($2 million).
Construction on the current phase of the water system project is scheduled to end Friday, Oct. 23.
