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Show Well failure cause Layton water rationing is currently in effect immmmmx By doneta gatherum, m axxs. : i; ?: LAYTON On Wednesday, July 6, the Layton Fort Lane culinary water well failed. This loss, coupled with continuing hot dry weather, requires Layton City to establish a water rationing program for alt culinary water users. Those with secondary water systems or irrigation water are not affected by the rationing. The current program for rationing water will be: all odd numbered num-bered houses or businesses will water outside on Monday and Thursday. AH even numbered houses or businesses will water outside on Tuesday and Friday. There will be no watering allowed on Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday. According to City Manager Bruce Barton, the water consumption con-sumption will be evaluated at the beginning of each week and changes will be made perhaps weekly to make the best use of the water supply available. Information about the rationing schedules and any changes that might be made will come through the news media and through the Davis County Community Emergency and Disaster 'Preparedness 'Plan from the city to district coordinators and down to area and neighborhood coordinators. Mr. Barton noted this is probably the first good test for this plan that was established estab-lished alter the floods of 1984. Thursday evening the Layton City Council adopted an ordinance ordi-nance authorizing the city manager to implement any necessary " restrictions and procedures to conserve water in the event of shortages or other service interruptions. This document outlined out-lined the penalties for those who fail to comply with the water use limitation requirements. : O CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Layton well failure CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The first occurrence carries a penalty of $100. If the responsible responsi-ble party cannot be contacted, water service will be terminated and a trebled service initiation fee will be required. The second occurrence carries a quadrupled service initiation fee. On third and subsequent occurrences, water service will be terminated and the service initiation fee will be double the previously required amount. (For example, a second occurrence would require a fee of $200, a third would require a fee of $400 and a fourth would require a fee of $800.) Public Works Director, Terry Coburn, reported to the council . that there was no warning that this well was going to fail. At first, the workers thought the well had collapsed but after extensive exten-sive testing, it is now felt that a "significant drop in water level at the Fort Lane location caused the failure." There is a noticeable notice-able drop in the waterlevel at the city's other three wells but Mr. Coburn didn't express concern about the drop. Layton's culinary water supply comes from the four wells and from treated Weber Basin water. Mr. Coburn said this is the first time in the 14 years he has worked for the city that a well has failed. Several experiments are being tried to get the well operational. operation-al. It is hoped that within three or four weeks, the shaft can be lowered to another water-bearing aquifer and the well can be used again. Mr. Coburn said schools, parks and churches have been notified of the problem. There will be some watering of flowers and shrubs but much of the grass will be let go during this crisis. |