Show sewer bond election May 22 May 22 has been set as the date to cross another obstacle in the path of the valley-wide water and sewer Officials of Vernal Maeser Water Improvement District and Ashley Valley Water and Sewer District have spent numerous hours working out details and preparing for the valley-wide systems to become a The bond election will consist of three separate one in each of the three Polling places for each area are being announced in the legal notices of the Express and on local radio Vernal residents will vote on bonds of for water and for Maeser residents will vote on bonds of on water and on Ashley Valley residents will vote on on water and of which nearly one million earmarked for the sewer project and million for the water The water project proposed will consist of construction of a one million gallon water storage tank at the mouth of Dry Fork a one million gallon water storage tank south of the county asphalt several miles of transmission and distribution and some minor system controls and Additional grant money Is also being sought from state and federal sources for the water system The water system Improvements are necessitated by the rapid growth seen in the area in the past five Present storage capacity is far below minimum requirements of the Utah Division of the delivery system cannot keep up with the extra demands now placed on and extremely low pressures and flows are experienced in many parts of the system during summer The Utah Division of Health has also mandated that the present water source must be treated in the near Maeser and Ashley Valley are currently investigating the various alternatives for providing water meeting state The sewer project proposed will consist of nearly 40 miles of a lagoon treatment system and a land application disposal The cost of the sewer is being paid by million from local money and million from EPA grant Local money will come from bonds and hook-up Hook-up fees have been set at however to provide Incentive for the existing a discount will be allowed for those hooking to the as they are constructed past 's ASHLEY MAI SER V UNDER L 71 y J S' NAPLES DAVIS Valley-wide sewer system j J their homes and EPA requires that hook-ups be mandatory for houses within feet of a on the part of these houses to hook up may result in loss of grant money for the Existing connections to the Vernal sewer system will not have to pay an additional hook-up are planned to be immediately extended into all areas of the valley where population densities are high enough to make the sewer economically Future extensions into other areas are planned as soon as economics will The sewer project Is part of the Wastewater Construction Grants program of the Grant money has been obligated to this project to help eliminate serious health hazards created by failing septic systems in the Maeser and Ashley Valley and to upgrade City's treatment which is now overloaded and Construction plans for the sewer project are currently being prepared by Uintah Engineering and will be ready for submission to EPA by the end of this Failure of passage of the bond election may result in loss of EPA funds to this project and to the state of which will kill the project Payment of the bonds is planned to be made with revenues generated from user fees on the water and sewer If user fee revenues are no property taxes are anticipated to pay the new Additional information concerning the the water and sewer and how local cost will be paid will be presented during the next INES PROPOSED FOR IMMEDIATE THIS PROJECT SHOWN IN LINES REPRESENT FUTURE STORAGE RESERVOIR TREATMENT LAGOONS |