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BLUFFDALE -- Bluffdale City could start to grow thanks in part to the new national cybersecurity building being built by the National Security Agency at Camp Williams.
The center needs new infrastructure, including a water pipeline that will run through Bluffdale near where the future Mountain View Corridor will be built.
The NSA has been working with the Bluffdale city leaders on the location of the pipeline, which will cost an estimated $10 million.
Bluffdale City Manager Mark Reid says they've worked out a deal with the NSA where the city will pay over a million dollars to have the pipes being put in up sized. In return the city will get to tap into the water system for its own residents.
"The city would never, probably put in pipes this distance at our own cost," said Reid. Instead development would have to make its way that direction with developers paying costs.
This in turn will open up areas for development that until now have been sitting empty.
"There has been a development that has been on and off the planning table for many years," Reid said. He thinks those developers will be a lot more excited now that they may be able to push up their timetable.
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