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Show A2 Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Vernal Express l-H Western Park Continued from page 1A to sustain minimally, a 20-year 20-year growth in collections." ' The interior conditions of storage areas are climate controlled. Baker said "Some delicate materials, such as textiles, must be kept in conditions that sustain little variance in temperature or relative humidity." Some situations sit-uations may require freeze-storage freeze-storage for incoming materi VERUAL 5 f i t-t rr- (ISSN 0892-1091) Published every Wednesday for $26 per year in the shopping area and $38 per year out of the shopping area within the state and $42 per year out of state within the USA by the Vernal Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah, 84078. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to VERNAL EXPRESS, P.O. Box 1000, Vernal, Utah 84078. 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Baker has been working with computer software, called PastPerfect, which is specifically designed for ri.wni Mil i nun ii. . m u ZJjytjfiJ crzis uotoka L I X M If. A "1 "iinhmw ,.' Iira If m 1 V I - Smw & u,UMm&&Mt,io Anfi?m G 1 1 fl L' jlllCiEIHSjlO j partis yjvir' uj ' T!0CT) cataloging museum objects, library materials and photographs. photo-graphs. The program allows a user to enter detailed information infor-mation on the age, location, character, etc. of an item. Photographs may be scanned in as well as other detailed records, such as maps, drawings, draw-ings, oral history recordings or music. Baker believes that this type of software would better serve collections at the Uintah County Library Regional History Center. The Regional History room is the premier facility of its kind for small towns in Utah. Baker says that the bulk of the information informa-tion contained at the Center goes hand-in-glove with the historical character of the collections housed at the Western Heritage Museum. The Western Heritage Museum is located at 328 East 200 South, Vernal 789-7399. 789-7399. The museum is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.) and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 Foam in Green River could be naturally caused A foamy substance discovered dis-covered floating in the Sand Wash area of the Green River early last week contains no harmful chemicals, according accord-ing to preliminary test results conducted by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ), said a press release for the DWQ on Friday. Walt Baker, director of DWQ, said the sample from the foamy discharge was tested at the Utah Division of Laboratory Services (State Lab) and showed no elevated mm UU I Drilling fluid leaked from a pit near the White River A Colorado based oil company, com-pany, Enduring Resources LID, "experienced a leak" from a lined reserve pit at a well being drilled near the White River. The company detected the leak Thursday and began to contain the leak. They also contacted the BLM and SITLA. The company built two berms to contain the leak and Reserve pit Enduring Resources, Inc., notified the Bureau of Land Management of a leak from a reserve pit for a gas well being drilled on School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) land in the Rock House gas field. Though the leaking reserve pit is not located on BLM managed-land, the drilling fluid was flowing across BLM managed-land in Atchee Wash. Hazardous material proto-colswereimmediatelyexecut-ed. BLM, State, and Enduring Resources personnel were on concentrations of substances substanc-es or chemicals that would be harmful to the ecosystem ecosys-tem or the public. But DWQ will continue to monitor the river through the end of the week to validate the initial lab result. "It still remains unclear if the foaming was the result of an illegal discharge of a substance to the river or simply sim-ply a natural phenomenon that typically occurs in the spring when increased runoff run-off transports decomposing roc? c then used vacuum trucks to remove the liquid. Enduring was able to stop the spill one mile before it reached the White River, explained Alex Campbell, vice president of Enduring Resources. No fluid leaked into the river. The pit leaked about 1,200 gallons of drilling fluid from the pit. Enduring has taken samples sam-ples of from the leaked leak on gas project stopped the scene to assess the cleanup clean-up effort and to minimize any impacts from the leak. The leaking drilling fluid appears to have been stopped a few hundred feet from the White River. Water samples of the drilling fluid were taken from the leaking pit, immediately outside of the pit, where the fluid was stopped, and at the White River. The reserve pit is used to store drilling fluids during well drilling operations. The reserve pit is a fresh water mud system that could contain con-tain barite. There is no dan plants, leaves and algae, and the fatty acids they contain to streams and rivers," Baker said. "In water the fatty acids act similar to bubble bath in a bath tub when disturbed by wind, waves or currents, bubbles are formed." On March 12, an individual visiting the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge in the Uintah Basin reported to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of seeing thick masses of foam on the Green River. On Monday, the BLM noti- f .i '--' -SMi "ri". r n rluid ana submitted it to an independent lab for testing Campbell explained that it was fresh water with a slight coloration of fresh water based clay drilling mud. No staining occurred on the surface sur-face around the spill. "No other action has been requested by the BLM or the State of Utah," added Campbell. ger to public health. Barite is used in the drilling fluid to add weight and minimize mini-mize fluid loss into fractured underground formations. Water available at Little Sahara dunes The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Little Sahara Recreation Area would like to inform the public pub-lic that the water supply at the Little Sahara Recreation Area campgrounds will be turned on as early as March 28, 2007 for the summer. fied DWQ, which dispatched an environmental scientist to the area to collect water samples for analysis. A sample collected by a BLM employee was tested at the State Lab. Although there was insufficient quantity quan-tity of the sample to do a whole suite of tests that normally nor-mally would be performed, the sample was sufficient enough to determine that it contained no substances normally nor-mally found in drilling fluids used in oil and gas recovery. j -I i i lUHinHnH mm 5 |