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Show Page 3 SEPTEMBER 28,2006 T H E GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER LEGAL NOTICES DOCUMENT NO. 00110 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Owner.Town of Tropic 40 North 300 West, P.O. Box 130 , Tropic, UT 84776 Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of the Tropic Town Culinary Water Improvements 2006, which includes approximately 7600 l.f. PVC pipe, C.M.U. building, installation of owner furnished filtration equipment, and related work will be received by Tropic Town at the office of Jones & DeMille Engineering, 1535 South 100 West, Richfield, UT 84701, until J2:00 p.m., October 3,2006, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. The BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be examined at Jones & DeMille Engineering and the following locations: 1. Intermountain Contractor, 1743 Alexander St. SLC, and 323 E 1200 S Orem, UT 2. Assoc. Gen. Contractors, 1722 E 280 N, SteBl, St. George, UT Copies of the BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of Jones & DeMille Engineering, 1535 South 100 West, Richfield, UT 84701 Phone # 435-896-8266, upon payment of $50.00 for each set, no part of which will be refunded. September 6,2006, Lowell Mecham, Mayor Published in the Garfield County Insider September 14, 21 and 28th.. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT NOTICE TO WATER USERS The State Engineer received the following Application(s) in Garfield County (Locations in SLB&M). For more information or to receive a copy of filings, visit http://waterrights.utah.gov or call 1866-882-4426. Persons objecting to an application must file a CLEARLY READABLE protest stating FILING NUMBER, REASONS FOR OBJECTION, PROTESTANTS4 NAME AND RETURN ADDRESS, and any request for a hearing. Protest must be filed with the State Engineer, Box 146300, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6300 on or before OCTOBER 25, 2006. These are informal proceedings as per Rule R655-6-2 of the Division of Water Rights. (The Period of Use is generally year-round except irrigation which is generally from Apr 1 to Oct 31 each year.) NEW APPLICATION(S) 97-2299 (A76605): Blake Spalding propose(s) using 1.73 ac-ft.fromgroundwater (-2 miles south of Boulder Town) for IRRIGATION; DOMESTIC. CHANGE APPLICATlON(S) 61-2713(a31936): Lynda L. Marcks, State of Utah Board of Water Resources, West Panguitch Irr. & Res. Co. - Held by BWR propose(s) using 1.6 ac-ft. from groundwater (1/2 mile south of Panguitch) for IRRIGATION; STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC. 61-2711(a31937): State of Utah Board of Water Resources, Paul and Chantra S. Gooch, West Panguitch Irr. & Res. Co. - Held by BWR propose(s) using 0.8 ac-ft. from groundwater (1 mile northeast of Panguitch) for STOCKWATERING; DOMESTIC. 61-394(a31954): Town of Circleville A Municipal Corporation propose(s) using 0.135 cfs. from the Cottonwood Basin Spring (4 miles NW of Circleville) for MUNICIPAL: In Circleville. 61-2138(a31955): Town of Circleville propose(s) using 0.06 cfs. from the Wades Canyon Spring (4 miles NW of Circleville) for MUNICIPAL: In Town of Circleville. Garfield School District is seeking persons interested insubstitute t teaching positions. Substitute training will be provided by Garfield County School District. If interested in a substitute teaching posision, please contact us and submit a district classified application to Annie Eldredge at 145 East Center in Panguitch, or at PO Box 398, Panguitch, Utah 84759. You may call 435-676-8821 Jerry D. Olds, P.E., STATE ENGINEER for any additional information. Published in The Garfield County Insider A training will be held on Monday, on SEPTEMBER 28 & OCTOBER 5, 2006. October 9,2006 at Panguitch High School Library from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. You will- be required to have a back- GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC ground check. The cost for this background check is $39 payable to the ANNOUNCEMENT School District. Upon approval of the If you had a student in Special Edubackground check, board approval will cation in Garfield County Schools who be requested. was born between the years 1981 and Completed fingerprint cards and all 1986 and.would like their IEP informaother paperwork are due to the district tion please call Vicki Ahlstrom 435-679office by October 23,2006. Lunch will 8769. Records will be destroyed ;after b e p r o v i d e d : -: ~*.•••.\~y*.r, •,;; ^ v,. • v . ; December v Iv2006;r - V ^ ^ - • ' ; ^ H f ^ : ; ; FARM BUREAU CALLS ON STATE TO PROTECT WATER RIGHTS AND WEST DESERT ECOSYSTEM In a statement before the Utah ter from eastern Nevada aquifers. This Legislature's Natural Resources, Agri- heavy groundwater drawdown could inculture & Environment Interim Commit- fluence hydrologic mechanics, ultimately tee, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation adversely impacting Utah's sovereign called on the Governor, State Legisla- water rights, water quality, agricultural ture and Utah State Engineer to aggres- irrigation practices and costs and the assively protect Utah water rights, Utah sociated West Desert ecosystems. residents, Utah agriculture interests and The Utah Farm Bureau Federation the fragile Western desert ecosystem. is calling on the SNWA to take the nec"Utah must demand that Southern essary time to provide an unbiased inNevada Water Authority (SNWA) pro- ventory and assessment of the target vide full protection to existing water basins along the Utah border, especially rights in the affected region, recognize Utah's Snake Valley. The inventory and the jurisdictional issues associated with assessment must include detailed inforstate boundaries and assess the impacts mation allowing the Utah State Engineer of the proposed pipeline along the west- to determine any potential adverse imera Utah border," said Randy Parker,, pacts to Utah, its water rights, property Chief Executive Officer of the Utah rights and associated ecosystems. Farm Bureau. The inventory and assessment must Farm Bureau is concerned that the include but not limited to: push by SNWA to reach a quick agree-; A comprehensive inventory of rement is the result of politics and money corded water rights, vested water rights, without regard for a process that ad- historical water rights and current uses. equately protects the historic values of A comprehensive inventory of prethe region, including the sovereign wa- project baseline conditions, including all ter rights of the state of Utah. springs and seeps on both private and Nevada and Utah are the two most public property, flows, water tables and arid states in America. Both states man- vegetation. age resources based on ongoing water Use of resource inventory data in shortages, especially in Utah's West modeling to predict the potential impacts Desert. Current agriculture irrigation or of 25,000 acre feet of groundwater rethe larger impacts of another prolonged moval from Snake Valley. drought may be just a drop in the bucket A groundwater monitoring program compared to the impacts of the SNWA that measures any adverse affects on proposal to pumping 25,000 acre-feet Utah water resources, agriculture interfrom Snake Valley and 180,000 acre feet ests and the ecosystem. annually from eastern Nevada aquifers. Agreement to incremental levels of The Snake Valley aquifer rests pumping implemented over an agreed largely in Utah. There is undocumented timeline to assure no adverse impacts to speculation that a deep carbonate aquiUtah's sovereign water resources or fer containing ancient water underlies the region. Hydrologists, with adequate Snake Valley residents. Establishment of agreed to threshtime, have the ability to estimate the olds of impacts that will automatically amount of water and how pumping with reduce or stop SNWA pumping of Snake affect the aquifer. If a deep aquifer is present containing ancient water, only a Valley groundwater. Advance agreements for mitigating scientific analysis will determine the hyadverse impacts of groundwater pumpdrologic connection between it and the ing in Snake Valley and compensation shallow alluvial aquifer. for affected parties including but not li in"Water is .the lifeblopd of the arid west. Availability of water is critical to ked to the State of Utah, agricultural inUtah's rural economies and farm and terests "and others holding water rights. "Utah agriculture is a multi-billion ranch families. Even the slightest lowering of the underground water resource dollar industry, employing more than could adversely impact farmers and 100,000 Utahns. Agriculture's economic ranchers. Increased costs associated contribution is of greatest importance to with deeper pumping of water could ren- our state's rural communities and their der agriculture economically infeasible citizens, including Snake Valley," Parker said. "In the counties that could be in the region," Parker said. In addition, Farm Bureau is con- harmed by the proposed SNWA pipecerned that science hasn't fully deter- line, there are additional cultural and mined the hydrologic connections be J economic issues. SNWA must assess the tween Utah's western aquifers and the potential adverse socio-economic imlong term impacts of removing and trans- pacts to the historic residents of the re.' porting 180,000 acre feet of groundwa-* gion." i - • ' ; ' . - ) ' |