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Show T 'Jfiv CL Jw ' " j, W L r C I' - et. 4 g, r' J ' Y Ssvm rKUOi jtr?nfr1P iR fKzQliUnlitm Ctanrultj nai -- 2-j'- j ?ur.rjt-Vfi-- n x 'vjghj xi 10151 QHtt&p 'tith'id i7tn23ia Vol. 3No. 51 FARMINGTON An Idaho contractor has been awarded the task of cleaning up tons of dirt and debris left from the May mudslide in Rudd Creek Canyon that severely damaged nine homes. The low bidder on the project, Construction Inc. of Boise, was awarded the contract by the Farming-to- n City Council last week to clean up the area between 5 50 North and 6S0 North. City Engineer Art Maxwell reported that the city received eight bids ranging from a proposal to dispose of the debris at a nearby school site at $218,000 to a plan to utilize the Bay Area Refuse Dis- posal in Centerville at a cost of $641,000. Each bidder was asked to egitis Cleaning Up After Mudslide submit a price for hauling the debris to at a later date the demolition of the the BARD site, the Knowlton Elemennine homes that were either severely damaged or destroyed. An estimated tary School in Farmington and the Fardebris basin will be Bird near the $500,000 four-acr-e Refuge mington Bay Great Salt Lake, " built on the site to contain future mudslides and floods in the unstable area. After Maxwell averaged out the bids City Manager Max Forbush said only of each company, the Billingham firm about 60' percent of the nine homeownwas the lowest at an average estimate of ers have given approval to go on the 309,400. Maxwell said the contractor land to remove the debris. He said perwill haul about 70 percent of the dirt to mission must be obtained as soon as the elementary where it will be used for to begin the clean-u- p fill. The other 30 percent will be taken possible and also to get as accurate operations to the Bird Refuge where state officials an estimate on the value of the properwill use the dirt for diking purposes. ty as possible. Maxwell said only a small amount of The council instructed Forbush to set dirt and the debris from demolished Sept. as a deadline to get permission homes and trees will be taken to the . from the property owners and after that BARD landfill. The project will include date, contact the city attorney for possi 1 ble legal action. We owe it to the people who are The current time frame for the project calls for the commencement of the removal of the debris by the end of August. The land is planned to be acquired by the city by the middle of September. A construction plan for the basin would be completed by Sept. 30 and a bid for the project would be awarded on Oct. 15. Work would begin in November and be completed by activities held last week offered some- Rezoning LAYTON An Aug. 28 deadline for making a decision to support or not support a resource recovery plant proposed now for Clearfield has the Lay-to- n City Council looking at their rabbit during fair competition. Clown (right) keeps children happy by creating creatures from balloons. More information on the county fair and win- -, ners of fair contests is available on Page 4D of todays Lakeside The property in question is. located on the comer of Fort Lane and Marva Ave. Svaras wanted on to develop four the six lots,' allowing 16 families to live in the area. But neighbors objected to the rezone, saying it would downgrade their property and cause traffic and safety problems. George Ronnenkamp spoke 'for the neighbors in telling the city fathers that enough is enough and that the property should have been considered for rezoning at the time the city master plan was adopted. the plant have asked that all cities in the area declare their intentions to use or not use the g plant by Aug. 28. If support is committed, the project could tie up the city for as long as 20 years, according to Layton Mayor Lewis Shields. At the invitation of the City Council, representatives of Biomass gave a presentation of their system of converting garbage in to ethonol, a process invented by garbage-burnin- their company founder, Alan Neves. According to Tim Hansen of Biomass, Neves was head industrial engineer for the Boeing Co. at HAFB at a time when Boeing encouraged people to come up with alternatives to foreign energy sources. cause of the number of apartments existing to the south of the property and others being constructed a short distance away on Gordon, across from - He said that neighbors constantly face parking problems. Council members Stevenson and Ann Harris opposed a motion to deny the rezone motion made by Councilman Sam Truji- llo and seconded by David Pratt. Golden Sill abstained, requiring the mayor to break the tie. He voted for the motion to deny the rezone. Grant Funds Released for Projects Davis County Council of Govbe awarded in May; however, ernments (COG) in selecting the statewide flooding and mud-'idforced Matheson to put a Although city and statewide projects. Eighteen applications projects were freeze on all community develflooding slowed the process, for county-wid- e 1983 community block grant filed and each COG mayor rankopment funds. funds' have been released by ed these according to eight criteFarmington City received the Gov. Scott Matheson and are ria. largest grant in the amount of available to selected county and Layton sought to get North $200,000 for a public safety Lake Councilman Grant building to house the citys fire Salt city projects. and police department. The FarThe cities and county projects Woods ballot disqualified beon several zero the cause are of received signthat mington City Council has since rankings grants received approval to divert the the for After an his contracts prothe appeal scoring. ing costs of the cess was completed, the ballot funds to clean-u- p $858,121 in funds that were allocated for the federal funds. stayed in and Kaysvilles water May mudslide down Rudd. Layton City had filed an ap- project remained ahead of Lay- Creek Canyon. Syracuse City was given peal in March calling for a re- tons downtown rehabilitation. count of the ballots used by the The grants were scheduled to $160,000 for a secondary water BARRY KAWA Review Staff ,, es , Exciting project. West Bountiful City will receive $145,000 for a storm and ground water drainage project. Kaysville initially was granted $66,896 for a water system in west Kaysville and received an additional $91,500 when a county telecommunication system was declared ineligible. The Davis County Housing Authority was granted $85,000 for a rehabilitation project. A water project in Centerville will be funded for $69,225. And Clearfield City will receive $45,500 for, a flood control Index Schools ; , Schools open Monday for students from kin- Classified Church Editorial Home Living dergarten 0300 before deciding which way to go. The county agencies proposing " Review. es alternatives He said that the nearby residents were concerned that their area would become a blight area because of rezoning and be- . i LYNDIA GRAHAM Review Correspondent watches her father, Bruce Savage, with anticipation during judging of the familys week. E.G. King School.- Although a voting quorum was not present at the COG meeting Wednesday to officially approve the request, a telephone poll was taken by COG officials and approval was granted. The, city hopes to use this diverting of funds to obtain a matching $200,000 in federal jobs bill money for the $625,000 project. Garbage Facility thing for nearly everyone of all ages. Suspense is the emotion of the day as Natalie Savage (below) LAYTON Fourteen residents of Layton and a petition with 56 names opposing the re- zoning of property on north Fort Lane swayed enough members of the Layton City Council to .rfeat the rezoning request, but it was a close, with a tied council and Mayor Lewis Shields casting the deciding vote. The request to rezone property owned by George Svaras from a zone allowing single dwellings to a multiple dwelling status was considered and rejected last four-plex- V . Review Correspondent i block grant to the project. The grant was originally awarded by COG in February for a public safety building for the city. Alternatives to DAVIS COUNTY FAIR LYNDIA GRAHAM i In other business, the council announced approval from the Davis County Council of Government for a request from the city to divert a $200,000 community development Layton Studying Rejects i re- lying on us to create the debris basin, Mayor Merrill Petty said on the urgency of the project. We cant wait forever. We have to do it while we have the time to do it. Layton i ' Wednesday, August 24, 1983' through high school, with some new features ID added. 5D 2D 5A b Section ID Sports.....C Section School if . Neves began a project and eventually focused in on the possibility of converting wood into an alcohol type product which could be used for energy. Hansen said that other alcohol producing methods use foodstuffs such as grains and some vegetables to produce the sugar needed for their products, but that the competition at the table makes those methods prohibitive and impractical. After many years of experimentation, Neves developed a formula for breaking down the cellulose in wood to its basic sugar form where it can be converted into ethenol, a product with possibly as many as 400,000 applications in todays market, he said. Testing by professors at Brigham Young University confirmed that the process worked and eventually an experimental plant was constructed in the Ogden area. Due to the high tech nology involved, the process, as well as the plants location, is a closely guarded secret, according to Hansen. He said that the Ogden plant will always be used as a test facility to keep up with advances in the field but that several other locations are now ready for a plant of the same type. At the plants household garbage is collected and separated into different categories, such as metals, glass for resale and wood related products. Two hundred to tons of garbage be needed to would per day make the venture profitable. three-hundr- ed Prep Preview Can Davis repeat as region Will champions? Layton and Roy return to the state tournament? the Lakeside Review football preview can give you some clues. C Section Hansen and his associate, Ray Brown, both stressed that their d priplants were vate enterprises and that the cities involved would not be obligated for construction or operating costs. Hansen said that the company is interested in locating in areas with tax credits and doesnt feel that at the present time Utah is especially high on their list of i places to build. A plant in Montana and an- - ' other in Philippines are close to construction and many other countries have sent delegations : to study their operation, Hansen said. Brown said that, ideally, the plant could be built near the current landfill areas of cities since there is a residue of what he called dirt that needs to be profit-oriente- dumped into a conventional landfill. It comprises less than 10 percent of the total garbage collected and he said that it could be sold to another firm. He said a Biomass plant would use very little water and in fact produce distilled water, gives off no pollutants, is clean, and produces enough heat to operate its own boilers. It also produces 125 percent of its needs for electricity, allowing the plant to sell the additional 25 percent back to lo; cal power companies. Brown said that the process can be adapted to handle sewage AJ sludge since a large portion of . sewage is cellulose Both representatives called the process a terrific breakthrough and compared the current solid waste treatment plans and their method, to the horse and buggy verses the automobile, When asked what the Biomass system had to offer in compari-so- n to the proposed burn plant, Hansen said the plant would not be near populated areas, since the ethenol can be shipped any- where and is used in so many ways. .JJ - . . '1 I He also said that minimal for water and no ' need for outside energy are ad- vantages as is the fact that such vy a facility wouldnt cost tax dol-;- ,7 lars. , the that said ; Shields Mayor council has never been opposed .5; to some sort of a burn plant. Its the way of the future, the . mayor said. Putting garbage in a hole and covering it up is wasting energy, burying money,' he said. Coucilman Sam Trujillo said he did not want to bejyl pushed into a decision on the way Layton will go in handeling A its household garbage. . s infor-I want to gather more mation and data before we make a decision for the residents' qF 7 , Layton, he said. - - p |