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Show B4 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Vernal Express DWS to hold job fair . - ' , s - ' . i . -v- I nil - -,... - - 1 V'mH-MmnMmmmwmmmim. J , - - - - INFORMATION SOUGHT ON HISTORIC PHOTO Last week's photog raph brought no response. How about this collection of serious subjects? The board in the background has information on it relating to water resources. There are reservoirs and pipelines drawn for the entire Uintah Basin and points west. No doubt this is a gathering of water reclamation professionals. Any idea who the assembled men are? This photograph along with others is housed at the Regional History Room of the Uintah County Library. There is no identification on the photograph and library curators would love to know what this group represents. If you wish to view this photograph, it is on display in the Regional History His-tory Room, Uintah County Library, 155 East Main Street in Vernal, open Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you have information on the photo, call the Vernal Express at 789- 3511 or contact Mary Bernard at mbernardvernal.com. Municipalities stop contractors from dumping in sewer ponds By Preston McConke Uintah Basin News Service The price of having a septic sep-tic tank emptied in Duchesne County has more than doubled in the last month since the cities cit-ies of Roosevelt and Duchesne stopped allowing contractors to dump sewage in their treatment lagoons. Duchesne City will consider tonight, April 22, whether to renew or grant contracts to a pair of locally-based septic service businesses, while Roosevelt has shutdown commercial dumping until further notice. At Duchesne's city meeting last Tuesday, the council tabled a request from one sewer service to let it dump under another business' contract, with Mayor Clint Park saying an unknown truck had created a foul mess that day by dropping sewage on a lagoon's bank. ' Roosevelt Assistant City Manager Roger Eschler said the main reason the city has stopped commercial dumping is that it has no way of monitoring how much companies are putting in the lagoons. "We haven't got a facility set up to inspect it," Eschler said. "(The decision was made) to protect the integrity of our and Closing Co sewer lagoons and make sure something isn't being dumped that shouldn't be." As a result Mike Haggard, who provides service through the USANCO franchise, and Rex Harris of Milestone Field Service, each say they must charge an extra four hours' carrying time to truck home sewage to Vernal's treatment ponds. At $85 an hour, this has taken the average cost from about $300 to $640 for customers in the Upper Country area of Duchesne County, where neither sewer nor culinary water systems exist. Because of the cost, and because they know Vernal City will not welcome out-of-county sewage, both contractors have virtually ended septic service in Duchesne County, responding only to emergencies. Recently Harris said he got a call from an Upper Country woman who said she needed her ' septic tank emptied no matter ' the cost. "I don't like doing that," Harris Har-ris said. In that case the bill was close to $600. Harris said he can continue in business because most of his work is based in Uintah County's oil fields, where he empties man-camp man-camp sewer tanks. He services only "one or two" drilling rigs wtity Pun RunWalk kk5 liEig Ceremonies for Sat. April 26, 2008 9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Bottle Nollov; istration: 8:00 a.m. Fun Bun FREE T-Shirt for the first 1 00 participants Everyone Welcome! Free to the public Bike Rodeo BBQ Lunch Rez Pet Contest Sponsored by: ills Ute in Duchesne County, he said. Still, Harris recently acquired three residential-service trucks and drivers from a company going through financial woes. Needing a dump spot that wasn't miles out of the way, he approached Myton City. But his request came in the same week Myton learned its No. 1 lagoon is filling up with "solids" and is likely to be shutdown for a year while it dries. "I don't think this is a good time for us to be accepting out-of-town sewage," Myton Mayor Kathleen Cooper said at a Thursday Thurs-day city council meeting. Haggard said until a month ago he relied on Roosevelt to take his waste, and dumped both residential and portable toilet waste in its Ballard-based lagoons. That abruptly ended in March, and Haggard isn't sure why. Today, Vernal City provides . his only dumping station. "It 's hard on me, when people call and you can't give them your service because you have nowhere to dump it," Haggard said. "It makes it rough, especially espe-cially when that's how you make your living." Mayor Park said a solution may be in the works for at least one contractor. After last week's mess from an unknown sewer Child Abuse Prevention Month i Jit Walk and Bike begins Kcallh & Edcafioa Program Cfilld l!iiiss Prevention Team With the frenzy of economic activity currently encompassing encompass-ing the Uintah Basin, it is a job seeker's market. There are help wanted signs posted everywhere around towtt, plus an entire section of the newspaper news-paper is now mostly devoted to employers seeking employees. "We all hear stories about crazy wages and extreme needs, but sometimes it is important to take a step back and look at what about this crazy job market is of benefit to you," said Margo Weeks, the office manager of the Utah Department of Workforce Services employment center in Vernal. DWS will host the Uintah Basin Career Fair on Thursday from noon to 4 p.m. at Western Park to allow area residents an opportunity to explore those benefits. Weeks said a career fair is a great opportunity to visit with local employers, educational providers, military recruiters and more. "It's a one-stop shop for your career," she said. "Whether ' s X I v 1 - K W Joanna Reed with the Utah Department of Workforce Services (seated) signs in participants at a past job fair hosted by the agency. DWS will host the Uintah Basin Career Fair on Thursday at Western Park in Vernal. truck, Milestone Field Service is offering to build a steel ramp or a discharge "box" that would make it easier for tank trucks to empty directly into the lagoon. Right now Duchesne has a contract with just one septic service, ser-vice, Price-based Waste Logistics, which serves both the oil field and residences. Park said the dumping privileges cost Waste Logistics $200 a month. "IZ at 9:00 a.m. jU you're 16 or 60, opportunities await you in the Uintah Basin." Ba-sin." The DWS Web site lists the Basin as the "Job Hot Spot of the State." For over eight years, the region has shown positive job growth each quarter. In the last quarter of 2007, there were 22,444 jobs in the Basin. What's required for these positions? How can I get the training I need? How much can I expect to get paid? Weeks said a career fair is the place to get answers to all these questions. D wayne Allen with Casedhole Solutions will be one employer looking for employees at the fair. Allen is looking for wireline engineers en-gineers and wireline operators. He will be taking applications at the fair for positions paying from $60,000 to $150,000 a year with on-the-job training provided by the employer. Halliburton will also be on hand accepting applications. There are manyjob opportunities currently available with Halliburton Halli-burton and Paul Moorman, hu 'f ,v y , , X- 'Z-Z VNZ ( ' Vw-r 4 1 szh;rv . . r' i ' i '-v .? i7 Friday, April 25, 7 pm First Baptist Church 2100 W Highway 40 Vernal Info: 866-855-1036 Admission Is Free Strengthen man resources director, describes the company as a stable, growing business in the area with good income potential. If the oil field not for you, Weeks said that's no problem. Visit the booth for the Uintah School District. The district will be accepting applications also and has numerous positions available for teachers, bus drivers driv-ers and cooks. District personnel director Lee Gagon will also be on hand to answer questions about the alternate route to teacher licensing. If you have a bachelor's degree, you may be able to start teaching now. Other employers attending the fair include Uintah Care Center, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Border Patrol, UBTA-UBET Communications, Wal-mart, Lowe's Home Improvement, Uintah Basin Applied Technology Technol-ogy College, Dinosaur National Monument, Mountain America Credit Union, Weber State University, Uni-versity, Utah State University, Central Dispatch, SOS Staffing and many more. 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