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Show Chimney fire Dear Editor: I want to-express my appreciation to the Vernal Volunteer Fire Department for responding so quickly to a chimney fire that occurred in my home last Saturday. I also want to apologize to them for not heeding all of the warnings that they have given Basin residents about wood burning stoves this winter. I guess I thought that because my wood burning stove was an insert sitting inside my fireplace, my chances of a soot buildup was low. I learned the hard way but luckily came through the fire without any damage to my home. I hope residents will save our fire department a lot of trouble and save themselves a lot of worry by purchasing pur-chasing the chemical needed to put in their stoves to prevent chimney fires before it's too late. Thanks again to our fire department. SANDY WOEHRMANN I from the water transmission lines is r shocking and incomprehesible to several knowledgeable people. By har- nassing that water, the water volume ' and pressure in the transmission lines . I could be greatly increased and to do so ' is simple. i Presently, the 16" and the 20" water ' transmission lines are connected just above and just below the chlorinator. No water passes through the 20" line between those connections. The pressure reducing valves in both 1 transmission lines ought to be removed. The one in the 20" line is not even func- ( tional. A meter should be placed in the 20" line just below the chlorinator. One already exists in the 16" line at that point. After removal of the pressure reducing valves in the transmission lines, a pressure differential would not exist between the points where the 1" pipe exits from and returns to the 16" pipe. Thus, water would need to be drawn to the chlorinator through the 1" pipe by a pump. Without pressure reducing valves in the transmission lines, the water pressure of 140 pounds per square inch would be retained. Instead In-stead of being dumped, water should continuously flow in both transmission lines. Stopping the flow in the 20" pipe and only allowing water to run in the 16' line at the chlorinator results in a huge energy loss. Chlorine gas could be injected in-jected into both the 16" and the 20" lines so that the flow in the 20" line is continuous. con-tinuous. Elimination of the pressure reducing valves and retention of the water that is presently being dumped at the chlorinator would require that a pressure reducing valve be put in the 12" diagonal line occurring two and one-half miles below the chlorinator. However, no such valve is needed in the large transmission line below the origin of the 12" line. The ASV strongly urges that the alteration of the water lines at the chlorinator take place immediately! immediate-ly! Two members of Vernal City council coun-cil were made aware of the situation at the chlorinator and its remedy last week by Russ Vernon of Uintah Engineering. Engineers at Uintah Engineering attest at-test that tremendous water pressure could be saved if the "dead-end" water lines in the Ashley Valley water distribution system were looped together. That linkage should be performed per-formed by Vernal City expeditiously. A break exists in the 4" water line on 1500 South between the residence of Colton McKeachnie and Gayle McKeachnie. Last year, both ends of the break were capped. Still, the break has not been repaired. The loss o,' energy resulting from that break accounts ac-counts for much pressure loss in the Naples-Davis area. In 1975, Uintah Engineering, a consultant consul-tant to Vernal City, presented the latter with a 20 year master plan for water development in Ashley Valley. Uintah Engineering provided a list of 90 priority priori-ty projects that the city should complete com-plete in the 20 years from 1975 to 2195. First in priority was the placement of a 6" line on 500 East between 2500 South and 3500 South. Five years, one fourth of the period covered in the master plan, has already expired. The project of number one priority has not yet commenced. com-menced. To the knowledge of ASV, only one of the 90 projects proposed by Uintah Uin-tah Engineering in the original water master plan has been completed and it was Number 86 in the priority list of 90 projects. One fourth of the time covered in the master plan has expired and only one percent of the projects have been completed. We invite you to ask Vernal city what is going to take place in the next 15 years. Vernal city has installed an 8" water line along U.S. 40 from 500 South proceeding south that was not even included in the master plan. That installation was done because federal funding was available for it. It occurred in an area that has largely been annexed annex-ed to Vernal City recently, suggesting another reason for the completion of that project. Vernal city is not using the master plan that it paid its consultant to provide. pro-vide. It is simply plugging holes in the dike where they may happen to occur or is proceeding with projects for which federal funding is available. Vernal city has not established a scheduled time table for the completion of the different projects in the priority list. Such haphazard management makes the city's reported 54 loss of water in its pipeline system more credible. Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement Im-provement District has a priority list provided by Uintah Engineering which we intend to follow. In the near future, ASV will invite lending institutions to bid on the purchase of one and one-half million dollars worth of bonds. After the bonds are sold, ASV will begin building a 16" transmission line from Maeser Water Tank to a new Asphalt Ridge Tank west of Air Village Hills. A 20"-16"-12" transmission line will proceed pro-ceed from the Asphalt Ridge Tank to the present Davis Tank. When Vernal city corrects the problems at the chlorinator, the water system will have much more need for storage than for increased in-creased volume. Therefore, the tank at Asphalt Ridge is sorely needed. With the installment of the Maeser Tank-Asphalt Tank-Asphalt Ridge Tank-Davis Tank water artery and the construction of the new Asphalt Ridge Tank, the capacity of the water system in southwest Ashley Valley, now a low pressure area, will be greatly increased. We trust that Vernal city will do its part in enhancing the Ashley Valley water system by correcting correc-ting the problems at the chlorinator and by linking unlooped lines. Board of Directors Ashely Valley Water and Sewer Improvement Im-provement District LYLE McKEACHNIE OWEN SPIERS ROBERT TURNER GAYLON COOK NELDON SLAUGH |
