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Show i building property is ruined because be-cause it is impossible to live near the noise and dirt generated by gravel pits. Property taxes on residences re-sidences are much higher than those paid on gravel pits so the state is also losing needed revenue. reve-nue. This gravel operation is also on top of the Salt Lake City Aqueduct Aque-duct and the Hopper is on the Deer Creek Line, both of which supply Salt Lake City with water. In case of any damage to these water lines residents living under this pit would be flooded out while Salt Lake City itself would suffer a lack of water. Why is this gravel operation more important than the welfare and happiness of hundreds hund-reds of people? There is plenty of gravel near the point of the mountain which will never be a residential area. Patricia Russell, Lett "letters to The Editor I .4817 Wander Lane Hqlladay 17, Utah Why can't our . Planning Board v look to . the future? Our children ,. and grandchildren will never know ... how, beautiful, our Wasatch Moun- tains were if these gravel opera- tors, are allowed to continue their destruction. The state spent thousands thou-sands of dollars to make a scenic drive; along the base of the Was-; Was-; atch range and then it is allowed to be-ruined by excavations and 5. "gravel trucks. Now, Mt. 01ympusr one of our c . ..famous-land marks, is being ruin-. ruin-. ed by gravel operations.. The firm 1;. that is-, being allowed to this does - not -even own the property . they - are destroying,, they are leasing it and . when they, have completely ruined it for anything else they will , move on to other desecra-i desecra-i , tions. - Why: should this destruction of our natural beauties be allowed? i Everyone also , knows that this is the growing residential area yet |