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Show 1 I rp Pre A36ooittia 7 East 300 Scut Salt Uka city, Utah 84lU Deadlines: FRIDAY. September 23, 1983 News: Thursday 10:00 A.M. Vernal. Utah 84078 Advertising: Thursday 2:00 P.M. 91st Year No. 76 Phone 789-351 1 12 Pages Single copy 25c fWigseDeiriraill ffligjlfofl When two water entities in Ashley Valley get together there is bound to be a difference of opinion, and Wednesday's Vernal City Council meeting with the Maeser Water and Sewer Improvement District was no different. ' Four members of the Maeser Water board met with the city council concerning concer-ning a resolution passed by the council coun-cil in a special meeting Tuesday last week. The resolution makes Vernal City Ci-ty sole owner and operator of a raw water line to be constructed from Ashley Springs to the Central Utah Project Treatment to be built north of North of Vernal Vernal. The CUP treatment plant is a source of controversy in that it is located too low to serve all of Ashley Valley without pumping water. The upper end of the Maeser District would have to pump water to be serviced from the CUP treatment plant. Because of pumping requirements of the CUP treatment plant the Ashley Valley Water and Sewer District is proposing to build a treatment plant in the mouth of Ashley Canyon. Initially the Maeser district has sided sid-ed with Ashley Valley treatment plant, but more recently they have sided with the CUP treatment after the CUP guaranteed to pay pumping costs from the CUP treatment plan to the Chocolate Rock water tank. To participate in the CUP treatment plant, the Maeser district has to provide pro-vide a water line from Ashley Springs, present culinary water source, to the treatment plant, about lk mile. Vernal City has secured a $388,500 loan at 4Ms percent interest from the Community Impact Board to build the line, and the Maeser water district Continued on page 3 Another truck rolls on U-44 A Desert Oil Company truck, from Rock Springs, Wyoming, overturned about 13 miles north of Vernal on Utah Highway 44 Wednesday. The driver of the truck, Neal West, age 21, from Rock Springs, was not seriously injured. The truck was loaded with 55 gallon drums of oil: West makes the trip from Rock Springs down the canyon to Ver nal once a month. On this particular trip the brakes became overheated and the truck was going too fast to negotiate the curves. In an attempt to slow the truck down, West left the roadway and ran the truck along the side of the hill. The truck overturned and the load of oil barrels was scattered scat-tered along the roadside. No other vehicles were involved. This is the latest in an ongoing series Portion of Naples allowed out of City An agreement has been worked out to let a portion of Naples City disconnect. It was mutually agreed earlier this week that an area including most of the city between 500 East and 500 West and between 2500 South 3000 South would no longer be part of Naples City. Ci-ty. The exception to this boundary is a 400 foot section along 500 East from 2300 South and 3000 South would stay in the city. This was the culmination of a petition peti-tion and a lawsuit initiated by people in the area several months ago. The complaint asked Utah Seventh District Court to allow the area out of Naples for four reasons: 1 ) The move will create no adverse effects, 2) Naples City docs not furnish water, sewer, or fire protection, and there are no prospects of doing so in the future, 3) Police and road maintenance can be better furnished Locomotive escapes major damage In a lucky turn of event, a no Ion locomotive eluded damage at it eweaped the contractor hauling It to I be Dewrado Mine in Colorado and near-ly near-ly toppled in to the White River The electric locomotive w being hauled by Alma International from Craig. Colorado. About wven mile north of Hangely, Colo, at the tJewrado Mine tunwff, the contractor decided not to the tfackm to pull and push the load becau Ihrtf weight combined with the weight of the locomotive might be too much lor the bridge acfoM the White Ritrf . While arfroachmg the bridge, the a if hoM"i from an independent rom-prewr rom-prewr truck to the brakes m the frailer burnt aiding the load to roil out of control The mmrment of the trailer was attempted fo be controlled controll-ed by puffing by foot bnrd in front of the wbeek. but the boar were M pushed ade. The trailer Mled info a guard fail on the twirth ioV of the road and nearly toppled info the White Rim tt cm to fTt tiffing toward the Hut. Thursday l"0 trane pwTJH tbe iotwmoirre back on to the roadway, and it a rolled t the wof.g tion The omtwrre win rmrfsany pull a train load of rwat. to tbe ftofta-M ftofta-M tWet Hand from the teerd Mir. Hat in AJtT, pvWi tflaK tHtAT. rrporiH tbete ki bw damage to the Nwww t tf Ktidpnt. by Uintah County, and 4) It is in the best interest of the residents of this area to be served by Uintah County, and the residents object to the additional addi-tional layer of government.- ... s: Naples City countered that some of the allogations were totally false, such as Are protection and providing sewer . and water, which is provided by a water and sewer district no matter where a person lives in the Ashley Valley. City officials also said some of the allogations, like police protection, and about being in the best interests of the residents, are purely emotional issues and could not be proven. Naples City officials have said they really don't want people to leave the Continued on pog 2 of accidents on the same section of U-44. About a month ago an evaluation team from the State Highway District office in Orem came to Vernal to look at the section of road and continuing problem. Utah Highway Patrol Sergeant Ken Lawton accompanied the evaluation team. It is Lawton's contention that the speed limit on the road up the canyon is not realistic. Many of the trucks which have failed to negotiate the road safely were not exceeding the speed limit. The evaluation team took this into in-to consideration in their report, which they submitted to the Division of Highway Safety. The Division is now in the process of sorting through the information provided pro-vided by the evaluation team, which was headed by Carl Corban. Corban said Friday they have heard nothing from the Division of Safety about the information, but he expects the report tot forthcoming soon. Sergeant Lawton said the most necessary thing to minimize accidents on that section of highway is to make realistic speed limits, and then enforce them. Truck drivers do not want to get tickets, but they also want to get where they are going as quickly as possible. If they know the reasonable speed will be enforced they will slow down. Corban is in agreement with Lawton. Something must be done, although the highway has not killed Continued on page 2 ? s .v. - .-"ft k a Jh4e IP . ' ' x'H rmpL - UTAH POWER and Light crews work to replace a power pole that was hit by a truck Wednesday morning. The entire project was done with electricity running through the lines, and power was off for only a few seconds when the incident first occurred. Truck breaks power pole IT '""CL JSjt 1 -. . . I A power pole was struck by a truck and broken in two about 7:45 Wednesday Wednes-day morning at 100 South Vernal Avenue. The truck belonged to Bob Jones Trucking Company, and was driven by one of their employees. Apparent ly the truck was parked in a parking lot at that location, and when the driver attempted at-tempted to negotiate Die truck onto the roadway, he cut the curve too sharp and sideswiped the pole. The pole broke alxnit 12 feet from the top, but was kept from falling by the lines running along the top and a ground wire which ran along the pole below where the break occurred, Utah Power and Light crews rrspondi'd to the scene with two crews and four trucks, Power was not inter- Continued on poge 2 K: LrJ lOCOWtlt tLtS Iwdi WMe Pttyt ga,c fynnw-g py ri rjr,!io' Tuesday during rf 5 baul tO t htth ot Pafgoiy, Coo Schedule revised for Governor visit A rtvlned agenda ha been relraird lor (Jovcmnr Scott Mathrwn'ii trip to Vernal net Munday and TuewU)-; Monday, Sept. 26 J5 a m.; Arrive tn Vernal, is .oa m.! Vi!il !ate nlticrw. 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