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Show DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL, JUNE 12, 1935 to the natural land contour. AFTER THIS is completed, the city will do some dirt removal and some terracing in the area of the Lai sen home. The price of the project was lowered from a quarter million to $15,000 because the Millers and I arsens were willing to give the city easements to their property and because of the material that was removed by private volunteers like the workers from Chevron Oil The automobile is parked where the Waldo Miller home sat until struck by last year's mudslide that hit Valley View Drive in east Layton. ONCE A HOME GUIIERl M 'i ION May 14. 1984 is an insignificant date for most people It was a routine lme in I avion. s uni: dav. I he sun was shining. I he weather was pleasant. Evcry- aie was as usual until the moun-- i mi behind Valley View Drive be-- g m to move. shovel to remove a small rock and underneath you might find a boulder as laige as a loom." Mrs. Blaekner says she has planted new shiubbeiy and Bowers but they don't seem to be growing well. The mud soil just isn't good. d and doesn't allow It is water to penetrate into the plant root systems. M Y 14, 1984 will always be remembered by five families living at 'lie base of a narrow channel that had always been dry. There was THE W ESTS have hauled in top soil. They have a small garden started in their back yard. Mrs. Larsen's yard is still co- DONKTA it - I extensive yard damageon the Riehaid McMillan and the L.B. Blaekner pioperty. Mud Filled the bottom level arid the yard of the Dale west home. Mrs. StelTie Larsen lost the corner of her home to the mud and rock lock debris. A icsted ominously near her home until last month when Layton City woikmcn moved it to the rear of her yard. Waldo and Joyce Miller room-size- d lost their home. They had lived on Valiev View Drive for 30 years. I oday. a dirt driveway and a bank of boulders and dried mud sits where their home once was. of the mudslide, ton City workmen started sleanng the debris from Valley View Duve. It was soon open for noimal traffic. Utility companies slow in providing the services hack to the damaged homes. Mrs. THE DAV I ay Blaekner recalled her house was cold and the family had to use the fireplace, the cold water bathes and use latern light. Volunteers from the neighborhood, the local churches and Chevron Oil Company assisted the families by removing mud and debris used to be a pasture," Mrs. Miller explains. MUDSLIDE takes clean-u- p time. There are many delays and many problems that must be worked out, explains Scott Carter. Cost has been the major factor in and the slowing down the clean-u- p Miller's building permit." he says. "It has taken us a year to negotiate the eost down from a quarter million dollars to S35.000. It would have been cheaper to buy the property than to do any reconstruction work if we hadn't been able to bring costs down." Getting help from the county was another factor that slowed down reconstruction work. Mr. Carter noted it was February or March before the county would agree to participate in the project. hard-packe- vered almost completely with slide residue. It w ill be a giant task to get the debris out and landscaping in before the end of this growing season. WHO IS responsible for the mud and rock removal and the construction of a safe waterway? Mrs. Miller has asked this question over and over again to county and city officials. The wheels of government grind slowly, many people told us when this first happened. I know how slow ly things happen after waiting for over a year to build a home and resume our normal life," she says. We started about March contacting the city to see when we could start building. We hope to put our new home about 35 to 40 feet away from the mudslide chand of our nel. We lost about property to the slide. All we will have is a 20 foot access road to the area where we will put the house. It Company. AFTER WAITING to build a home for over one year, Mrs. Miller is slightly pessimistic. She has lived with disappointment and delay. Still, there is optimism in her voice when she talks about the assistance volunteers gave when they were needed. She is able to find beauty in the mud. Occasionally, we find a polished rock in the slide area. Steffies husband was a rock collector. His shop and equipment were destroyed. We have to smile when we find one of his rocks washed down on our property, Mrs. Miller comments. ONE YEAR after the Layton mud slide there is still more work to be done than has been accomplished. The needs today are different than they were a year ago. Volunteers don't have to help with mud removal and clean up. Today, assistance is needed in the form of money. The families affected by the slide lost many things-drap- carpeting, es, Recreation Signup Time KAYSVILLE - It's summer and time for fun under the auspices of Kaysville City Recreation. REGISTRATION starts June 12 for classes including arts and playground acticrafts, adult and junior beginning golf; archery, clinic. basketball and field boys vities, tennis, track and to a free time adult for gull to $30 tennis for $3 Fees range from field in the playground activities that include softball, Insby golf, the steal and flag. hockey, kick and dodgeball ball in Auactivities will feature little league toot in and wrestling January with furth- gust, basketball in November . UflCPV tk., -- , . Watch this diet work. house- hold articles, top soil, hundreds of little things that go into making up a liveable home. ROBERT Larsen is the chairman of the Valley View Drive Trust Fund. Contributions are placed in an account at the Citizen's Bank. The funds will be distributed to 10 lbs. in 2 weeks. . .v ilhout drugs, shots, crash diets, or expensive foods to buy. Your first individual consultation with your own personal counselor is free. Call now. according to a formula established by the Trust Fund Committee and based on the severity of the damage done to the property. People can mail donations to Mr. Larsen at 1464 N. Valley View Drive or to the Citizen's Bank, 1480 N. Highway 89. dmg $50 ONCE COUNTY participation Rebate Call for Details was guaranteed, Layton City opened bids to construct a storm drainage and mud flow linear debris basin which is a long narrow channel a little to the north of the existing channel. Terms of the contract state that work will start within 10 days and the whole project should be completed in two weeks. Besides constructing a channel, the mudslide material will be removed and re- Bountiful placed with more compactable soil. Earth burins, five feet high, will be built on either side of the channel. The sides of the channel will be graded as much as possible one-thir- . 292-505- rgra rrm i "Ti Kaysville 7 Centerville 546-049- 9 292-761- 8 ALLOCATION JN! from the homes. The Chevron Company donated machinery and two men who worked for many weeks, often overtime and without pay to assist in the unbelievable task of mud and rock removal. A ti ust fund to assist the families with leplacement of household items has been established. 1985 Honda 4WD Wagon ed COUNTY AND city officials looked at the situation. They called in expeits to study the possibility of luture mudslides in the area. I hev analyzed the costs and methods of flood control and s8778 mz?, 380 mudslide clean-uOn the surface, the problems along Vally View Drive have been solved. Realistically there is more to he done than has to date been p. accomplished. WALDO AND Joyce Miller are without a home. It is impossible to d on the site of their i home. A building permit to construct a new home in the pas-lui- e area north and east of the old home has been held up by Layton City officials until a commitment was made to channel potential Hood and mud away from the Miller pioperty. des-tioye- Community Development Director. Scott Carter explains the delay by saying, We are working to situate the home in a reasonably safe location and still provide utilities. I can't let someone build in an aiea that know is unsafe. I have a i esponsibility to insure the safety $8194 Choice of: Beefn Cheddar or ArbyS Super with regular fries and a medium soft See the comments. "You don't now where to start. You take a 380 3628 380 all-ne- w KEN GARFF'S, UTAHS ORIGINAL HONDA DEALER 84 Honda Accord 84 Honda Accord HB LX LX Sedan 83 Honda Accord 84 Buick Skylark Sedan Sedan 83 Honda Accord Sedan s8995 9495 $7995 $7995 s7395 1 Mi , Miller S9494 HONDA AIR No leather seats, electric sliding sunroof, alloy 72! p MS OVERWHELMING, $8744 or 3576 Accord SE--i Sedan Standard features include Save up to a observes that the large tree was ideal for a large swing is still standing. It overlooks a dry channel and a dirt roadway instead of a comfortable home. No wheels, Michelin steel radials, more. THE MATTER of building fees grape vines once grew. She that No 3619 fuel-inject-ed of residents." point of negotiation. Originally. Layton City wanted to charge the Miller's impact and hook-ufees that apply to all new buildings. The total amount would have been $ 2(H). This figure has been negotiated down to $900 to cover the cost of building inspections. Still, the Miller's wait. 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