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Show V r y ' - H-Wnrs'-' U'to? """" - ... A V-i...', .. " -ll-- '' "- i . " I THIS TENT provided shelter against the hot sun rays at the Bonanza Plant Unit 1 groundbreaking ground-breaking ceremony last week. Work is progressing progress-ing rapidly on the site preparation and driving GROUND-BREAKING at the Deserado Mine operation of Western Fuels Utah, Inc. About 150 people sat on bleachers and listened to speakers tell the benefits this project will have on the Rangely and , surrounding area. Actual construction will not begin until this week. culiiiCarv mmQT system The heat was on Vernal water officials of-ficials to show progress to financing a water treatment plant as they met with state officials in Park City last week. The Utah Safe Drinking Water Committee put the heat on the Uintah Basin by threatening that the area's culinary water system may be given a "not approved" rating because of delays in the construction of water treatment facilities. Such a rating could bring a halt to new construction by stopping federal loans to the area. In recommending the "not approved" ap-proved" rating, Executive Secretary Gayle Smith argued that he had not seen funding committments that would indicate progress toward the construction con-struction of water treatment facilities in the area. "We have been lenient and long pilings on a two shifts a day basis at the plant site. Work is concurrently progressing on the access roads and the 30 inch waterline. suffering," Smith told the committee members. According to Smith, Ashley Spring, the area main water source, becomes periodically contaminated because it is a surface source. Vernal was given a "not approved" rating in the spring of 1980 but that was changed to "not approved corrective action" after plans for treatment facilities were presented to the committee com-mittee about three months later. Gayle McKeachnie, spokesman for the Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District, agreed that funding had been a problem, but argued that plans are on schedule. He said he hoped the district could cooperate with Vernal City so that only one treatment plant would have to be built. A representative of Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative presented to the board a letter of intent to finance a treatment plant for the Ashley Valley, but no amount will be set until 30 days. Vernal City Manager Ken Bassett told the committee that the city's plans were being held up because of an inability to reach an agreement with the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. At the city's council meeting last Wednesday, the council approved several amendments to a contract to have CUP finance a treatment plant, but these amendments haven't been approved by CUP. In an effort to find out what is going on in the Ashley Valley, the Safe Drinking Water Committee will have its next meeting in Vernal. |
