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Show Wafer entities work toward freafmenf pleon? Whether to rate the valley's water system "Not Approved" or not, is on the agenda for this Thursday's meeting of the Safe Drinking Water Board in Park Citv and local water entities are attempting to comply. According to Kenneth Bassett, city manager, the Safe Drinking Water committee has sent a letter to all water entities in the valley asking for justification for not rating the system ' 'Not Approved" because of not keeping with their schedule for implementing a water treatment facility. The "Not Approved" rating will stop all federal loans to areas serviced by the system. Three members of the city council met Monday with the Uintah Water Conservancy Executive Board to discuss the contract for financing a water treatment through the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. The Uintah Conservancy District board agreed, at that meeting, to add three amendments to the contract to finance a water treatment plant through CUP which will include use of Ashley Springs as a water source for water treatment, allow the city a voice in the management of the treatment plant and deal with the future bonding obligation of the city. Tuesday Bassett was writing up the amendments for the city council's approval at Wednesday's council meeting, so they could be presented at the Safe Drinking Water committee meeting Thursday as evidence of progress toward a treatment plant. Other water districts are working with Deseret Generation and Transmission Tran-smission to work out a loan for financing finan-cing a treatment plant. Although the DG&T board has rejected prior requests for financing, according to Gayle McKeachnie, attorney at-torney for the AVWSID, they expect an agreement by this Thursday for a loan from DG&T for $6 million in which Deseret will get their money back, except for thier impact, if other in dustry comes in. The Maeser, Jensen and Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement Districts, along with seven canal companies, have passed a resolution to belong to an Ashley Valley Culinary Water Association which will represent all entities. "We are putting the valley back together," McKeachnie said. The water association will build and operate the treatment plant in the same manner as the Ashley Valley Sewer Board is doing with the new sewer treatment plant, McKeachnie said. The districts are waiting for the permit back from the BLM for approval ap-proval of the construction site for their treatment plant in Ashley Canyon, north of the old power plant. They plan to let the bids on the treatment plant next March and be completed with its construction by December, McKeachnie said. The plant is designed to treat Ashley Springs water and has involved the state in its planning. |