The fast-growing Keystone area needs more water.
This means building and burying a million-gallon water tank on about two acres of public land across from Keystone Resort above the Tenderfoot housing complex. Snake River Water District and the U.S. Forest Service say this is the best place for it.
“The tank would be approximately 20 feet high and 100 feet wide,” the USFS says in a release. “The water district would also construct an access road, and a buried waterline would run the length of the new road. Part of the access road, 800 feet, would be on private property and the remaining 1,000 feet would be on National Forest System lands.”
Authorities say the water district serves nearly 10,000 units these days, including new construction at the ski area like the high-rise Kindred Resorts property in River Run Village. This alone includes 95 condos.
At least two other new builds, in River Run and along U.S. Highway 6, will add dozens of units in the next year or two.