Biohazard Cleanup Near North Delta Delta, UT

Delta is the largest city in Millard County, Utah, located in the northeastern part of the county along the Sevier River and surrounded by farmland.

The 2020 census counted 3,622 residents in 1,158 households in Delta, the median age was 33.1 years, and all of its residents lived in rural areas.

Delta was settled in 1906 and began as a railroad switch called Aiken.

In 1905 Aiken was renamed Melville when Millard County began plans for irrigation and a dam, the name changed again to Burtner on May 12, 1908 because of similarity to Millville, Utah, and it finally became Delta on May 11, 1911, for the delta of the Sevier River.

During World War II the Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta, known as Topaz, held Japanese Americans, most formerly of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Topaz Museum in Delta preserves the site's history.

The Intermountain Power Project, a coal-powered plant near Delta, supplies power for much of Los Angeles County, California, with two units each producing 950 megawatts of electricity.

Materion's beryllium refining plant north of Delta is one of the few sources of concentrated beryllium in the world and North America's only developed source, with ore trucked from the Topaz-Spor Mountains 50 miles west in Juab County.

Alfalfa hay is the main crop of the Delta area, and the dry climate lets farmers control the hay's moisture when it is baled to prevent mold growth.

Delta is home to the Lon and Mary Watson Cosmic Ray Center, the main staging area for the Telescope Array Project experiment, and trilobite fossils are common in the House Range's Wheeler Shale west of the city.

Delta has three public schools, Delta Elementary School, Delta Middle School, and Delta High School, plus the Delta Technical Center, which teaches welding, machining and metalworking, and woodworking.