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Show tiLvoinn vni2zi3iiz) Bount i& C2sDfnx d,J ''rriTT-n mrniit iiTifrt hriiiTiiaiirtm Vol. 4 No. 34 Wednesday, August 29, 1984 But Pollution Controls Hof From Sewage APRIL ADAMS APRIL ADAMS Review v Staff State officials are just crying wolf with pollution-contrrequirements for a proposed garbage burnj. plant, the countys environmental health director beol The county recently acquired a permit from the states Air Quality Bureau that requires 50 percent of the acid gas that would be emitted by the plant be removed. Previously, the burn plant was required to remove up to 90 percent of the emissions. This requirement is not in any way justifiable, said Richard Harvey. All the acid gas scrubbing method will do is cost us dollars. Its not doing us any benefit. Harvey said there was never a problem with the plant meeting federal Environmental Protection Agency standards. The burn plant is 40,000 miles ahead of the EPA requirements, he said. The amounts of sulphur dioxide and hydrochloric acids produced by the plant will be so minimal they wont even be able to be measured, according to Harvey. But Britt Bradford, the director of Jthe states Air Quality Bureau, disagrees. Based on information submits, and indeted by Katy-Segher- Katy-Segher- - s, Staff Davis County residents living near the Great Salt Lake could auhave quite a tumn, health officials say. They are also warning people not to swim in the lake. Contrary to popular misconception, the lakes odor is not caused by sewage in the lake floating near the shores, said Richard Harvey, the countys environmental health director. With the increase in the lakes temperature, which peaks in August and September, there is a decreased ability in the water to hold oxygen. When the oxygen supply becomes depleted, many of the organisms living in the water die, settle and decompose on the bottom of the lake. This organism death cycle produces hydrogen sulfide, an aromatic gas, Harvey explained. It is in no way a significant health hazard, though, he said. But I dont suggest anyone get out there and swim in the water, since there are fairly high bacteriological counts found in the lake, Harvey said. Warning signs have been placed at strategic points near Farming-to- n Bay and the north end of Antelope Island telling people of the waters condition. It wont hurt if people come and stick their feet in the water, since everyone wants to see the Great Salt Lake, but we recommend that they dont have a lot of contact with the water. People shouldnt put their heads under the water, he said. Health officials have been taking bacteriological samples of the foul-smelli- lieves. State officials disagree. pendent information from state agencies where similar facilities are in operation, the emissions that would come from the plant would be significant enough to be controlled, he said. a Chicago-base- d burn plant construction company, Page 2A . Lakes Foul Smell Justified? Review Still Unpleasant Photo by Robert Regan GETTING A LAST kick-ou- of t Laura and Charles Christensen. Robert is the son of Robert and Melanie Sutton. Next week, instead of bike stunts, the boys will have to think of other priorities like reading, writing and computers wncnsgnuu. starts. summer 12, of Bountiful. is Robert Sutton, Watching him do a stunt called a kick-ou- t, because the rider tries to turn in the bike mid-a- ir perpendicular to his travel, is Tony Christensen, .13, son of water most of the summer and analyzing it through laboratory procedures, Harvey explained. "This sampling shows the ratios-anindicates what the predomi'I nant contamination is. But there is no correlation be- -; tween human wastes and the con-- t tamination of the lake, he d J' emphasized. ' Instead, it is contamination of storm water that caused officials to put the signs up, Harvey said.. There is no direct sewage con- - ' tamination, he said, even though ' treated sewage is poured into the' lake from the countys two sewage treatment plants. The lake is carpet right now, ; he said, with the growth of algae. The lakes salinity has in the past limited this growth, but with the mixing of the high saline level of the lakes north arm and the low saline level of the south arm, this has changed, he said. The south arm, which had a salinity level of or 2 percent before the breaching . of the Southern Pacific causeway, should change to about 6 or 7 percent, he said. The north arm, which exceeded a 20 percent salinity level, will drop, but it is not known by how much. When the lakes salt level was higher, this algae growth wasnt taking place, Harvey said. He said there is no difference in the water south of the South Pacific Railroad causeway and north of the causeway. The water causeflow through the 300-focufrom 13,500 has dropped way bic feet per second to 11,800 feet as last week. Who knows whats going to happen with the lake, he re-- 1 ot marked. New Animal Shelter and Policies Under Consideration APRIL ADAMS Review Staff There is FARMINGTON commitment to beginning construction on a new county animal shelter this fall, with the county also studying shelter policy recommendations submitted by a citizens advisory committee. It is our intention to get construction goingthis fall on phase one of a new animal control shelter, said County Commissioner Harold Tippetts who supervises animal control responsibilities for the county. He said he also hopes to get the county and local communities involved in the policy recommendations and suggestions. The suggestions will be part of the new guidelines to be set up as a result of the county animal shelter investigation, still two-mon- th ongoing. this equipment, Tippetts said. The shelter is not in the business of creating a hotel. The Davis County animal control budget shows a surplus of $37,878 over a four-yeperiod from 1980 to 1983. Most of this money went toward salaries and same architect who designed the Ogden City animal shelter, Tippetts said. Preliminary engineering drawings call for a sizeable shelter that can be built in phases, he said. But when cost estimates were submitted, Tippetts said he almost went into shock. The first phase may cost an estimated $300,000, with administrative offices; included. The Ogden shelter cost approximately $250,000 but has no offices, Tip; petts said. V The second phase, to be built in a few years, will cost between $150,000 ana $300,000, but these are just speculative figures, Tippetts emphasized. When questioned on why more cages were not purchased with the excess budget monies, Tippetts replied that the shelter did not want to buy equipment that would be included in the new fa- ar benefits. I In 1983, the . animal control fund a had of $218,760. budget Out of this, $177,897 went to- wards salaries and benefits for the eight shelter employees. Materials, supplies and services cost $26,304 and capital outlay, mostly for vehicles, was $14,559. The chairman of the citizens advisory committee, Lynn said she was told there was not enough money in the budget to purchase cat cages. Tippetts, who has been in office since the beginning of 983, said that it needs to be realized that we are working with tax .monies. We hope that all departments do not spend pll they money they are ; V-. f budgeted, Bra-da- k, This surplus goes back into the general fund at the end of the fiscal year, and is reappropriated to other funds the next fiscal year, he explained. He said a battery of cat cages was purchased last year, which is a single unit on wheels, with cages stacked on top of each other. Cats brought into the shelter are kept in these until either adopted or destroyed. The county commissioners and the county attorney have looked at the recommendations submitted by the advisory committee, but we havent addressed them yet, Tippetts said. There are really some good suggestions there. However, some of them wont be implemented, he said. : . 1 Though an architect has not been employed yet, there have cilities. In the eyes of concerned resibeen some preliminary cost estimates done by Ron Hales, the dents, it is necessary to purchase '.'j - . . ; . j The one that stuck out in my mind relates to the county shelter using smaller trucks, but the largtrucks presently in use er half-to- n have a better resale than the smaller vehicles, he said. The committee recommended a. procedure be followed with cats that come into the shelter, since there is currently no ordinance covering cats. The shelter policy considerations, submitted to the Lakeside Review, state we suggest that choice adoptable cats and all those with collars and vaccination tags be kept four working days, with those who are sick, wild or injured being euthanized immediately. Currently, cats are kept an average of one day at the shelter. Carla Carlsen, an animal control officer for the Sunset and Clinton areas, said that there are so many loopholes in present ordinances that it leaves any animal control officer open to a lawsuit. She said there is a cat ordinance that has been working in Seattle, Wash., for 60 years.' County commissioners say they will gladly look at the ordinance. The committee also recommended that records be kept on the cats since a controlled sub-- . stance is used in their euthanasia. An adoption fee of $2 to $5 a cat was also suggested. Healthy dogs should be kept four working days instead of the current three. days, the recommendation papers state. Dogs with minor injuries or diseases should be seen by a veterinarian, contrary to current practice. Severely injured or unhealthy dogs should be destroyed immediately, the committee recommends. Personnel hiring procedures at should also be changed, the committee believes. Ratings of one to five should be given to the top applicants for the position, with one of the final deciding factors being compassion toward animals. the shelter - Tippetts said, however, that there is no way this factor can be measured. Another method of euthanasia should be considered, the policy. . considerations say. .. g Life Calif The For Bountiful Woman Pilot High-Flyin- CHERYL ARCHIBALD tions. As i ' ' my leg on my first jump. T of the Utah Pilots Association, she put in Logan together ap air show this past month.' ' .. style. Growing up in South London, ' She once jumped out of airMs. Allred, says she always held planes for sport. I was young an interest in airplanes. She liked and foolish then, she says, as model planes so she joined the hobby segment of the Girl though her present-da- y were well advised.. She now flies Scouts. She got into parachuting after planes upside down and in loops she applied to be on the TV game and She has been piloting for five show, $64,000 Question as an years but she says, I get bored expert in astronomy. She was acjust flying planes. Sometimes I cepted but they never called. However, To Tell The Truth just have to do a loop or a roll., On the ground, Ms. Allred hurcalled and asked if she knew anyries from her job at Wasatch thing about parachutes. Deterto a hangar at the mined to be the imposter on Bountiful airport in Woods Cross the show; she hung out at a local where she is building her own biparachute center to find someplane. thing out about the sport, Her goal is to gain her commerShe eventually stumped, the cial pilots license, complete her panel as an imposter parachutist airplane and perform in aerobatic and then became a real sky diver, air shows. She attends meetings the second woman ever in Engsometimes four nights a week as land. I was also the first woman a member andor officer of varisky diver in England to end up in ous aviation clubs and associa the hospital, she says. I broke Review Staff secretary-treasur- er For a secreBOUNTIFUL Allred of Bountiful, Sylvia tary, lifeg leads a busy, . high-flyin- -- air-rang- ' roll-over- Ne-ph- s. fa u After coming to the United States, marrying and having a family, and after divorcing five years ago, Ms. Allred took up aviation once again, this time as a pilot. She has been flying aerobatics for a year and finished third in the sportsman category at the i. Utah State Championships in Ms. Allred flies a Citaborea (aerobatics spelled backward) aerobatic trainer. Aerobatic competitions, says Ms. Allred, are judged in four different categories. For instance, in the sportsman segment there are 12 different maneuvers. Going into and out of a maneuver the plane must draw a straight line and be directly north and south. Maneuvers are' judged on altitude, entry, exit and degree of .. difficulty. stands next to her and will .take thousands of hours to to be used in complete. latest project, a stunt flying. The plane is hand made SYLVIA ALLRED bi-pla- ne ; The plane Ms. Allred is working on, is an ACRO Duster 1L, a two seater, aerobatic biplane. She has been working on the plane for al most a year and expects to be fin- - ..."& "s ished in another year. are always saying, arent you afraid to fly in something youve built? But Ms. People . Allred says if they could see the y steel tube fuselage frame, a hard steel heliarc welded together, they would understand chro-mol- that the planes are built well. Plans for the ACRO Duster. II cost $85 and were ordered from Continued On Page 2A t 1 |