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Show r 3311) Sdran rz-mU- cimikm. oannilD tear&tH3D m iins-CtoaiiH- ogam 'IEEtai J Wednesday, August 1, 1984' Vol. 4 No. 30 Photos REBECCA SMITH, right, is helped by neighbor children Mindy Beckstead, 12, and Tiffany Baldwin, 8, to sort through items left wet and muddy by the flash flood that filled the Smith basement Saturday after heavy rains. Shoveling rain out of the Smiths basement takes the efforts of neighbors like John Wilcox. The damage done r A . by Robert Regan to the basement was reduced substantially by the quick action of the tireless workers after Saturdays storm. Mindy is the daughter of Robert and Lene Beckstead and Tiffany is the daughter of Bernett and Patsy Baldwin. : , , Join Heavy Rains Cause Flash Floods To Monitor Water Just When You Thought CHERYL ARCHIBALD ROBERT REGAN Review Staff On its way to the Great Salt Lake the rains last Saturday made a detour through the basement of Stan and Rebecca Smith. The water burst through a bedroom window and filled parts of the basement with nearly 14 inches of water and mud. In 30 minutes .95 inches of rain fell in Bountiful while an inch in 10 minutes fell in Farmington in a major flash flood of the summer. Id rather be on vacation! Mrs. Smith said as she cleaned the mud and water from her basement. Even with the help of about 30 neighbor families, the initial cleanup lasted well into the early Sunday morning hours. In fact the Smith family was already on vacation. They were bound in their new camping van when the rains hit with fury. out-of-to- I thought wed better come back and make sure everything It was Safe was OK, said Mrs. Smith. And this is what we found, referring to the mess surrounding her. The Smiths were not the only Bountiful residents who were flooded. Bountiful Police Lieutenant Don Taylor said almost every", basement in the area received some flooding. Streets running west down the hill were flooded and pavement was torn up and washed away. Some damage was on newly paved streets and patchwork in other places was totally washed out. Two feet of mud closed the road below North Canyon, Taylor said. Mud was washed onto Bountiful Boulevard above the Bountiful golf course. Another mudslide covered a section of road around 3000 South and 400 North. s City crews worked with to clear culverts clogged by debris washed into swollen creeks. Storm drain covers were blown off throughout the city and in some places gushes of water back-hoe- BARD-NAR- D were six feet high coming out of sewers. But Taylor said damage was of a different nature than that 500 South. Some residents reported basement flooding, but Public Works Director Ralph Lees said that overall damage was minimal. Three weeks ago Colonial Gardens residents, who were deluged by mud and flood waters of Stone Creek in 1983, finally felt confident enough to remove sandbags around their grounds. They were hit hard by Saturdays flash flood. Water flooded basements and the parking lot. Interstate 5 was closed for 30 to 45 minutes and traffic was rerouted at Parrish Lane because of a three car accident during the caused by spring runoff. Many basements were flooded by rain water from roofs. Creek water damage was negligible. Bountiful City officials received calls from residents reporting damage to property and streets. Monday, the city was still trying to assess damages. North Salt Lake City Manager Collin Wood reported damage caused by heavy rains in that area. A water main under construction in a new development burst and culverts were still being storm. A vehicle, driven by Edmund cleaned Monday from the storm. North Salt Lake police closed Lopez, 74, Salt Lake City, crossed a Highway 89 and rerouted through a median and hit head-o- n Val Verda. northbound automobile driven West Bountiful was hit hardest by Troy Burrows, 20, of Kays-villat 500 South east of the Union Multiple injuries were susPacific Railroad tracks. Water tained by three accident victims. flowed north along the tracks Bartola Lopez, 75, also of Salt causing damage before it finally Lake City, was flown by Life ran into the Phillips Petroleum Flight rescue helicopter to LDS channel. The county is repairing' Hospital in Salt Lake City. . 1 CHERYL ARCHIBALD Staff Citizens can BOUNTIFUL last week and hall fight city Bountiful city residents did and got their way when they persuaded the city council to disapprove a zoning change. About a hundred residents presented their objections to a zoning change which would have allowed convenience store to be a built in their neighborhood. A hearing was held to change commercial the residential boundaries on the corner of 400 7-- East 500 South. Property is now zoned residential, but owner Delbert Duerden, asked the city to rezone the corner lot. He said the store would be a mom and pop store that weve all grown up with." The store would increase the tax base, he said, and since it is not an RDA project, it would not cost citizens any tax dollars. But residents were afraid the store would disrupt the residential character of their neighborhood and set a precedent. Where will this stop? What will happen ot J that an injunction to prevent the breach be granted by a state court. The motion was scheduled to' be heard Monday and Tuesday in Salt Lake City by District Judge Jay Banks. It was filed by the spokesman. owner of. a mineral extracting The project was the cause of a company. William Colman. lawsuit filed by a This is the second court action south shore businessman asking last-minu- te LAYTON- - said. Tests will determine whether contamination agents are beijig The Bay Area and leached from the sites, and if so the North Davis Refuse districts will share the costs of a required it must be discovered where they are going. If they are being and testing seeped from the areas, then the' hope to save thousands by doing must b contaminants so. said. contained, Harvey in The testing, to begin August Funding for the project was apand be conducted by the county at a recent NARD board proved health department, it to deterof trustees meeting. NARD will mine whether contaminants from and BARD will pay; the landfill are not seeping be- apay $26,000 $21,700 for this approximately Richyond property borders, said cost. The cost would hi years the county ard Harvey, $30,000 each, if the landfills indei environmental health director. pendently went ahead with The ground-watmonitoring is project. The monitoring must be continrequired for refuse landfills under the state adopted and enforced ued next year, but the cost should Resource Conservation and Re- drop considerably by that timelaS covery Act, which monitors solid the landfill districts meet reqwaste disposal issues, Harvey uirements, Harvey said. J. er Rising Salt Lake Still Threatening Review Staff . lf flood-preventi- ve ni As part of the meetings agree? ments, the counties will begin, 4 study of where to build earthen dikes along the lakes county boarders. The Davis Counly study will begin shortly on wheth- er to dike the southern part of the countys lake shore, and the cosj of the project. The governor says dike anywhere and everywhere, Saunders APRIL ADAMS FARMINGTON People do not yet realize how serious a said he was not against free enter- - problem next years estimated in Maple Hills and other areas? Breck England, school teacher prise, he was just against the site Great Salt Lake level could beselection. He said hes normally a come if plans are not made now, asked. Is this the type of neighhome body, I didnt even want said county Commission Chairborhood we want? to come down here tonight. He man Glen Saunders. He represented the views of wouldnt have come if he wasnt Experts predict the level will others who took the microphone so worked he said. up, rise to a record 4,211 feet, about in protest claiming that rezoning Not everyone felt as strongly two feet higher than this years would be a flagrant example of opposed as Peterson, but only 4,209.25 peak, he noted. spot zoning, would be contrary to one or two said they would like If this occured and no preventathe citys master plan, would lead to have a store close enough to tive measures werfe taken, conseto blight and would attract high walk to or where their kids could quences could be serious for school students looking for a buy candy. Davis County residents, he said. place to hang out. Councilman Sharpe recomThe waters would threaten the Henry Peterson, a resident of mended the rezoning be denied four sewer treatment plants and the neighborhood for 35 years based on planning and zoning the residential areas near the recommendations, residential dislakes edge, he explained. approval and because spot zoning At a recent task force meeting is against the master plan. of commissioners and Governor The petition was denied by the Scott Matheson, various voted Lawrence over the breach in the last two council but Jerry proposals were dismonths. against only because of residents cussed if the lake should rise next The controversial breach, near feelings. He called it the "biggest spring, he said. mile east display of support on an issue Lakeside about one-haThe governor also agreed to of the western shore of the Great since Ive been on the council. Salt Lake, should equalize the He did not agree with some of push for more funding at Septembers special legislative session for levels of the north and south the objections calling them emoarms of the lake, causing the tional and hard to prove. He is feasibility studies to be made. The governor will go after the south arm to drop by nine inches for business building where they funds to protect us from that corlike on the a and raising the north arm by can make profit 4,211 figure," he said. ner in question. about three feet. Railroad Breach Ready to Go A 300-foLAYTON breach in the Southern Pacific Railroad causeway designed as a flood control measure should allow water to flow through on Aug. 1, according to a railraod Review Staff e. Bountiful Residents Stop Rezoning ' Review APRIL ADAMS -- - said. He is willing to take a good, long hard look at any and all pro- -' posals pertaining to the elevation , of the lake and will forge ahead on them, he said. Though Matheson looks with some disfavor at the suggested western desert pumping, this may be the proposal with the greatest promise for reducing the lake lev-' el, he said. . ; The proposal requires overflow water from the lake be pumped into the desert areas in Tooele and Box Elder counties. Anj engineering study and an environmental impact statement for the federal Department of De-fense land would have to be first, that would take two years and $3 million, the s coni-plet- corn-missio- said. 1 ed |