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Show iba. vd ial Mi Mlle | m — eee — - Lid Dlliallb athaialadin lll ms at ae ptnennchac i rere ne ee . Vol. ft Issue i; August 17, 1999 Wasatch County's Source for News Telecom Jordanelle Pa / S For. Mine Water Cleanup iant ayes Up Memorial Hill | _ Residents to pay United Park's Midway looking into cell tower possibilities cleaning bill By Sam Allen, Courier Staff LA week veterans foi around the valley came to protest AT&T’s application to put four cell site antennas on Memorial Hill. Midway’s Memorial Hill honors those veterans from Wasatch ~County who died for their country. eae capped oS ewe The proposed antennas would be hidden within four flagpoles that AT&T would erect on the opposite side of the hilltop from the existing flagpole. AT&T would © also pay $600 per month to the county which would then be used to maintain Memorial Hill: For the most part, the veterans opposed the plan because they did not feel it was appropriate to have commercial development in a park that honored those who died for their coun- © try. Dan Ballstaedt, a veteran of three wars, stated, “If.we turn that hill over to _Telecommu 5 ications giant, AT&T. AT&T, it ceases to be Memorial Hilt? - “wants to put cell phone towers “Construction continues on a new $9. 7 mation atop Midway’s ailing Memorial Hill. ~ Others expressed similar . sentiments. |) ~ One citizen commented that he would rather maintain the hill through slightly - water treatment plant. county has not had the money tovinstall — ‘it.. It higher taxes than receive money from a commercial company. All agreed that teleased into a. Jordanelle Reservoir. " “the hill needs to be better maintained. In an agreement signed last fall eee the Jordanelle Special Service District Thos Masarch. ‘County. ‘Courier hanes oe Cohiesiéner Mike Kohler Gotdicided obtained: a copy - of an” ‘agreement (JSSD) and United Park City Mines the project since Memorial. Hill is in. Corporation (UPCMC), JSSD agreed to — ‘between UPCMC and JSSD. dated June desperate need of improvements. In the — _ design, finance and build a $9.7 million » EO 9S. In the agreement UPCMC. » past, vandals have stolen the plaques 2 Compiled by Staff — - arsenic, zinc and lead Kefore: it can be- treatment plant for polluted water leaving UPCMC’s Ontario No. 2 drainage tunnel for use in future residential developments in the Jordanelle area. While JSSD at present only leases approximately 10 percent of the water flowing from the Ontario No. 2, they will treat 100 percent of the water flowing from the tunnel. UPCMC is already required by the Utah Division of Water Quality to treat the flow from the tun- | nel to remove heavy metals such as acknowledges that they have a Utah Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit (the UPDES permit) issued by. the Utah Division of Water Quality dated August tt O07, Presumably the discharge permit requires UPCMC totreat the water discharged from. the Ontario No. 2 Drain Tunnel to remove heavy metals such as zinc, lead and arsenic before it can be released into Jordanelle Reservoir. JSSD<swants > to% UPCMC continued on page 3 from the site as well as caused other ~-damage to the park. Drug users and drunks have also favored the site’ for their activities since it is an ideal loca- ‘ tion to-watch out for the law enforce- “ment officials who may be after them. Since AT&T would have improved the | whole the hill when it put up its own’ equipment, Kohler felt like it would have been a great. deal for the county. ‘Questar has already donated a mile of water pipe for Memorial Hill but the ai ee WASATCH COUNTY is approximately 60 feet tall. The four flagpoles that AT&T would like to install are each approximately 40 feet — tall. They would be located in a halfmoon configuration about fifty feet from _ the existing pole. | Each pole would taper upwards from. its 12 to 14 inches base and would house an omni-directional antenna inside. The base station itself, ‘a building about 12 feet wide, 28 feet long and nine feet. high, would be partially buried in the hillside: below the crest of the hill. It would be connected to the flagpoles by a buried cable. Constructionff the site ~ . would take approximately two to three months. on the hill. If other carriers wanted for them.-Although this may not be : desirable, the upside is that the county would get even more money to maintain 1 the Fine se No public TECH ae yet made by afcekd county commissioners on whether they ae ;_ 8 would allow construction to begin. feces | Piceteicd Standard Lifestyles: <2) eae eo 18 BUSHIGGS caps 8, Se a 25: U.S. Postage Paid Classifieds — Heber City, UT Permit No. 32005 wey 2, S 5A ARE SS 6 SRO to on the hill, they. would have to build additional flagpoles WEAIHEE eT wna 2 Bie Ke c73 gt ee 16. 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