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Show Health official spurs water treatment plant Verrml's water system will be labeled not approved" and federal home loans )uld be cut off if a time schedule is not resented to the State Board of Health r a water treatment plant. "As it sits right now," said Gayle nith, State Department of Health, "I ive no alternative but to give Vernal a lot approved' rating." ;"If we get a time table for a treatment treat-ment plant, then its rating will be langed to 'not approved corrective aeon'." ae-on'." :Presently Vernal's water system is 'ited "classification pending" which esn't affect any federal loans, but iien a new grading system is im-imented im-imented in May, Vernal's system will i3 not approved if no action is taken iward building a treatment plant. The "not approved" classification 111 stop federal loans because an ap-oved ap-oved water system is a federal re quirement for home loans, Smith said. Smith told the city council Jan. 16 that Utah is the second highest state, next to Colorado with the most incidence in-cidence of diseasg contacted through open water. Since Ashley springs, the main source of Vernal's water, is a surface sur-face water source, it is susceptible to carrying disease. Since last fall the city has engaged in an engineering study and site location for a treatment plant with funds from the Central Utah Project (CUP). If the engineering study is approved by the State Board of Health it will be presented to the council Jan. 28. From the study, the council will develop a time table. If a time table is submitted and action taken toward a treatment plant Vernal's Ver-nal's water system will be rated "not approved-corrective action" which will not affect federal home loans. |