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Show Erosion, A Problem In Salina Creek Area Cultivating crops and grazing cattle on fields and forest was part of taming the West, but in the process, erosion resulted overgrazing through and bad management Thursday The Salina Sun May 13, 1982 .... i sfur That problem is with us forest service doesnt today. A case in point, is have the land figured out Fishlake National well enough to manage it Forests Salina Creek perfectly, but have come drainage area where a long way just the same. Once a watershed infoothills have become badly eroded, says Jeff ventory is finished on the Foss, Richfield Ranger drainage in June 1983, District, U.S. Forest Foss says 100 potential rehabilitation sites will be Service. selected. But some of the Foss says the erosion larger erosion areas will has resulted from not be worked due to the fires, overgrazing, an acre expense to drought-especia- lly the reseed. Where erosion is 1977-7- 8 one and from just beginning these periods of heavy wildlife areas will be zeroed in on. use. A major indicator of The district rangers erosion, overgrazing and goal is to reduce erosion e disturbances, to where the stream is says Foss, is cheatgrass healthy and "clear from found in some parts of the sediment as well as save forest However, it comes the foothills. back better after a fire The problem right now, and protects the ground is the Forest Service somewhat. If on the forest, 40 hasn't focused on the importance of soil. Once percent of the ground is you lose the soil, you lose bare, then soil loss is the productivity to grow occurring or about to occur. Erosion can also anything, said Foss. on land not He acknowledged the occur Change Under Orders , V ' UP&L Rate Change To . . ", 5C?ILy ; , S reviewed A) ' the unit cost was reduced conwith increased of A bill a sumption. Commission has ordered a flattening of Utah Power & Light electricity rates that gives an K V user, without water or space heating, average sr . reduction to electrical using 500 kilowatt hours a users who do not have month, was calculated Out water heating or space this way: a in become the Salina erosion it starts gradually, problem Although heating service. 11 5523 cents per Creek Drainage area, due to can cause untold hardship for ran- the first for hour kilowatt wildlife. overgrazing, fire, drought, chers and for foresters. Erosion has The new rates make 60 Kwh 9 1828 cents sweeping changes for all per a rest and a chance for kilowatt hour for the next financial return, unlike classes of service properly cultivated. residential, commercial 140 Kwh To help restore eroded plants to grow. with offroad vehicles industrial cents 6 6880 One area now closed to and other Offroad vehicles have areas and maintain good per for all kilowatt hour for all effective service, on Monroe caused also sail areas, the forest extensive grazing is service maintains an erosion on forest service Mountain to enhance service rendered on and additional Kwh after April 12 The new altered grazing system to land, but the agency watershed rehabilitation. rates are based on the In addition, the 500 Kwh increase ground cover. doesnt have enough Foss says on the whole, commissions analysis of was reduced by 46 cents The system is set up so money to control that ranchers and farmers grazing occurs at dif- problem, says Foss. With have been cooperative in cost of service studies because of a fuel and adferent times of the year, grazing permits, the obeying grazing permit submitted by UP&L and purchase power thus allowing some areas forest service has some quotas. which is other witnesses giving justment, ' $40-$5- 0 It Started man-mad- A '! - the quarterly by Breaking away from testimony before the PSC balancing (energy commission traditional declining account) block residential rate Under traditional The new pricing design pricing structure, the block pricing, Utah Public Service declining flattens the unit price so ; 1 & typical Small the user is charged the same price (6 8892 cents) conof regardless sumption. For example, the bill of a residential consumer without water space heating service using 500 Kwh per month is calculated this way 500 Kwh x 6 8892 cents equals $33 99, when the same 46 cents is subtracted to cover the energy balancing ac- count In its order, the commission said that it does not at this time endorse one particular cost of service method and said all such studies submitted in this case demonstrate the need for revenue reallocation among service schedules in order to effect a prudent movement toward equity among the rate classes Vour (lloney Sadi... If hey Also Save Vou Honey. ..Buy The Case & Save! Frozen qhescsie? amount increase, other part on Chunk Tuna Concentrate From Florida SAFEWAY TASTY NUGGETS Complete & Balanced residential lb. bag 12 oz. can Case of 48 $33.12 -- Case of 36 - $32.04 Prospector Toddler EIEEima tmwar ax 1849 Jewelry CollectioM Save Your Register Tapes for 14 Karat Gold Initials with Genuine Diamond... 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At Vahd p.ohrbttea Resident 0t USA 0nty Offer not eppheab-- name where OfV State io FMm tv ju'y 3i i9B? pu,chased Purchase date incorporated Rjchfjed StOtt 0nlv. r. r yOUf Polaro3 arxl 1982 spec,al Packs 01 006 A " Y Address Prlces Good May 12 thru 15th COP,rt0h,1M2 3 color film packs return these 1tems store Check Two Pack) will be mailed to OWa Wh'e ds futur Purchases increase, again depending upon the type of service. The order also increased industrial service an average of six percent with a range of one third of one percent to 15 percent for large m dustrial users Irrigation servcie will see an average increase of 10 percent The com- mission ordered the company to implement a three-tiererate design for irrigators that would take into consideration a d land Time -- Zero service: without water or space an average heating reduction of 12 percent; with water heating an average service reduction of six percent; an for average 10 percent increase. Senior citizens will see their bills go up with removal of the first third of the differential betwen the senior citizens and general residential rates. The commission ordered the discount eliminated because of a Utah Supreme Court decision that said the special rate was illegal. The average for senior increase citizens ranges between 2 8 percent and 7 6 percent depending on type of service, e g. without water heating, with water heating or The commission or dered an average in crease for commercial service of one percent with a range between 12 percent reduction and a 10 Plus Tax and 100 Worth the the allocation by and among classes of service of the dollar amount granted the company. for New tariffs Sea Trader - Light Packed In Water or Oil Orange Juice The new electricity pricing structure decision to a back stems December 1980 hearing on the allocation or spread of rates on a $31 4 million increase granted UP&L Co. earlier that year. That case was bifurcated or split into one to two parts determine the dollar management program and a resulting rates decrease in depending upon the opthe tion chosen by irrigator Ixrad management is a technique used to modify shape of an electric systems load pattern for the purpose of deferring building new capacity or the purchase of energy In its order, the com mission did not adopt the companys proposal for time of date rates for its residential customers The commission said this rate would require that customer charges defray additional metering costs The PSC feels the issue needs further Neither consideration. did the commission adopt the companys proposal for rates with summer-winte- r rate differentials i |