Feds release environmental analysis on possible Powell pipeline routes. Critics point to flaws.

Federal officials released a long-awaited environmental review Monday of Utah’s proposed Lake Powell pipeline, a controversial billion-dollar water project that would serve the mushrooming St. George area, opening a public comment period through Sept. 6.The Utah Division of Water Resources has spent 14 years and $35 million designing and studying the 140-mile-long pipeline that would move up to 86,000 acre-feet of water a year through a 69-inch-diameter pipe across northern Arizona and sou