Coal Creek plays a large role in providing water for Cedar City and many of the surrounding communities. Any unused water will eventually end up in Lake Quichapa, where it evaporates off. The Water Conservation Board of Cedar City previously intended to filter the water in Lake Quichapa as a water source when needed, but its salinity and sedimentation concentrations were found to be too high for feasible filtration. The solution was to create sedimentation channels where the water from Coal Creek would be slowed down, allowing the majority of the sediment to settle out, then utilizing that water before it reaches Lake Quichapa. This research is to test the efficacy of this new system by measuring the sedimentation concentration at the end of these sedimentation channels.
