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Show SW7f lb(o3irdl (SflonififilS fOQUdls t fDETDDSlhl Ibfldls Ashley Valley Sewer Board has inney to complete all of the sewer 1 which have been bid, but the momentarily is cash flow, officials said Tuesday, lie city has their money, Maeser -authorized tax anticipation notes to X but a couple of hundred '"mi and the district has the i to pay what they owe," said Jas Lawson, chairman Ashley Jey Sewer Board. yjt of the board's money comes flaxes, the sale of bonds, and con-f:on con-f:on fees from three water and a entities which are represented - two officials on the board: Vernal v Maeser Water Improvement X and the Ashley Valley Water '. sewer Improvement District, ijo EPA is funding 89 percent of .jibs been bid on the sewer project, j.: after that their fund will be out. Presently there are areas where rtffis planned in Maeser, Davis and ;jBrtheastpart of Vernal City which i.-n't been bid and with cutbacks in ml government they won't receive !?1 funding, Jack Stagg, sewer board :iiber, said. "Down the line a few years," said Stagg, "we will build those lines." Lawson said that the board is hoping that impact money from energy companies moving into the area will help pay for the unbid lines. Although the sewer board has the power to bond to get funds to finish the project, Lawson said that they would utilize other sources of revenue first. Responding to a change that the Sewer Board may have acted irresponsibly in their bidding sequence, Lawson said that the lines which are being built are mostly main trunk lines and the lagoons which "had to be built first." All entities involved in the bidding have been present when it was done and voting was unanimous in favor of letting let-ting each bid, Lawson said. Most of the bids which have been let have been at the engineer's estimates or lower, the only over-run has been with the sewer lagoons where the engineer's didn't figure in the cost of 400,000 to 500,000 yards of dirt which has to be moved. This miscalculation and the addition of a sprinkling system, which has been required by EPA to be built with the lagoons and not five to six years from now when it will be needed, will boost the cost of the disposal system $750,000. Local entities and EPA will have to come up with their portion of the overrun, over-run, Lawson said. "The valley sewer project is the biggest project ever undertaken in this valley and most of what we get is harassment, instead of cooperation," Lawson said, about the county's action to stop all construction until all roads have been repaired. It would cost nearly $4 million more to finish the total sewer project, which is about how much it was originally estimated three to four years ago. Both Lawson and Stagg agree that the three to four year battle between the city and Ashley Valley Improvement Im-provement District cost $5 million to the valley sewer project. Stagg indicated that he felt confident that the sewer board could come up with the matching funds for the $1.8 million from EPA which is to be used to finish the disposal plant and, if any money if left over, to construct collector lines. |