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Show Report m AST Continued from makes to sprinkler rather than flood irrigate." Kettle pointed out that there were two or three farmers that have left over water each year now and that was never the case. "If they are conservative, they are going to have water for the next few months," concluded Kettle. Dry Gulch Class B water users using water from Moon Lake are alsober fiting from a colder than normal spring, but in a different way. Roger Ames, Directorditch rider for Class B water stock covering cov-ering a portion of Mt. Emmons and all of Bluebell, explained that the expectation earlier this year was for Moon Lake to fill and run over. "This didn't happen," explained ex-plained Ames. "Though we thought it would fill, and we would have all kinds of water running everywhere, the spring was so cool that it only filled to about 80 percent of capacity." Because the lake did not fill, water users will have to be very conservative to make their class B water shares get through August with a normal stream of water. "We have been watching and we have cut the size of the stream down to conserve water," explained Ames. "We have been using 10 second feet less of water all summer and this will make it go a little further in the fall." "I talk with most everyone on the ditch and I don't think that anybody has been shorted so far this year," explained Ames. Lee Carter, Yellowstone, Lake Fork Water Commissioner explained that his users are able to store runoff water in Moon Lake, Sand Wash, Twin Pots and Brown's Draw. He explained that the rivers peaked the end of June and they are now pulling stored water from the reservoirs. "A lot of people thought we would fill Moon Lake this year and they are still scratching their heads trying to figure out what happened," explained Carter. "It's like two things played into each other. The weather warmed and the rivers flowed and then it cooled down and shut the rivers down. This reduced the amount of water being stored in the lakes that usually comes in a rush and the rest of the water probably soaked into the ground." "We had lots of snow and little runoff," said Carter,; "It had to have gone into the ground before coming off the hill." Carter addressed the question about when users would run out of water by pointing out that it will be different for different users. He explained that many individual canal companies as well as individuals have made great progress in piping the Energy Ed Continuedirom A2 from a single well pad. "The point is doing less harm and getting more for the effort," said Walker, describingthe future of USTAR's energy innovation creation teams. "We want to bring good people together with good schools and good health care and a reason to grow with the community." That means creating a talent pool with USTAR on the USU campus bringing together educators educa-tors and students in a long-term effort toward economic development. develop-ment. "The goal is the support of higher education to qualify positions posi-tions for young people to become industrial engineers," Walker explained. Varun Gowda, EGl graduate student accompanying Walker on his Basin visit, said, "The purpose of the USTAR program is to extend economic benefits raws ipwr Lf llll Water DIABETES CLASSES For People With Diabetes For Families of People With Diabetes If You Are At Risk For Diabetes Anyone Who Is Interested First Thursday Of Every Month 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Dr. Mark Masons' Waiting Room EVERYONE WELCOME!!! ' " JBasin ii , ''.'A MedicaJ V' iCcNTtn For Vernal Car Pooling Call: 789-6118 Uintah Basin Medical Center 250 W. 200 N. Roosevelt, 722-4691 water which prolongs the water available through the summer. For example, the Payne Canal system is now piped from the diversion di-version on the Yellowstone River all the way down to the users. Fsunsworth Canal is not piped on the main canal but has most of the lateral pipes in. And then there are a lot of open ditches. Carter predicts that this will be a normal water year for the users. He explained that statistically statis-tically Moon Lake will fill six out of 10 years. Also, any water conserved now remains in storage stor-age until it is needed that helps the situation. "My primary water users will make it to the beginning of September," stated Carter. "And I hate to project, but my secondary second-ary water users will only have water a little beyond the first of August. Maybe a little less than normal." "We are short on water. It's not as bad as last year, but we are short," concluded Carter. Shane Hamblin, Uintah-Whiterocks Uintah-Whiterocks river commissioner explained that his users started using water from the storage lakes on July 2. "Last week I flew over the lakes in an airplane to gauge them and they are starting to come down," he explained. Hamblin said on the Uintah River he flew over Chain Lakes, Fox, Crescent and Atwood lakes. Atwood is down about three foot from being full, but it takes a better than average water year to fill Atwood. Besides the lower chain being a couple feet down from full, the rest of the lakes were full. He explained his users usually have a couple of weeks of excess runoff water that is turned downstream. down-stream. This year they only had four or five days of excess runoff water. "Irrigation companies with no water storage available are now out of water and they only got about a weeks worth of water," explained Hamblin. Users on the Whiterocks River drainage, which include the Whiterocks Irrigation and Ouray Park Irrigation companies, compa-nies, will experience a normal year as water is now being let out of Whiterocks Lake, Paradise Para-dise and Cliff lakes. So far they haven't started pulling water out of Chepeta. "If our users are conservative then they should have water through the end of August," explained Hamblin. "It did help that we started the year with all the reservoirs being full that would include Brown's Draw, Cottonwood, Lapoint, ' Broiigh,' Montez Creek and Pelican lakes." Hamblin pointed out that currently Ouray Park Irrigation company is installing a pipeline that is estimated to save upwards of 40 percent of the allocated water. "Thisisquitethesavings," said Hamblin. to the communities through the technical expertise of Utah's universities." He offered his experience in example. Gowda and Walker are currently cur-rently working on the carbon dioxide sequestration project at the Price research facility stage, which will focus on capturing C02 a source of greenhouse gases. "This research couldn't be' more timely," said Walker. "Capturing "Cap-turing C02 emission is essential to the expansion of the energy production process." This research will bear directly di-rectly on the development of refineries possibly in Roosevelt and Green River. In either case, refinery development may include smaller facilities, or upgrading up-grading facilities, to reduce the 'pour point' and allow material to pass through pipelines. Whatever the trajectory, USTAR's mission is bring capital capi-tal and technology together for future development. piwwjy im-v-si lis La Thursday, July 10, 2008 Speaker: Carol Rasmussen, np Topic: Diabetes Vernal Mt. Home man pleads to federal gun charge A Mountain Home man who fired an assault rifle from a moving mov-ing vehicle while on his way to the Duchesne County Jail in February has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Jason Daniel Cammans, 28, entered his guilty plea in front of U.S. District Court Judge Dee Benson last Monday in Salt Lake City. Cammans was being driven to the jail by a friend on Feb. 13 to begin serving a six month sentence sen-tence for possession of a dangerous danger-ous weapon by a restricted person. per-son. During the drive, Cammans pointed an AK-4 7 assault rifle out the window of his friend's SUy and began firing. The incident, which occurred on U.S. Highway 40 about four miles west of Duchesne, was reported to Central Dispatch. Two sheriffs deputies in the area tried to pull the SUV over. The driver of the vehicle ultimately stopped in the parking lot of Al's Foodtown, where deputies took Cammans into custody. Cammans had faced several felony and misdemeanor charges in 8th District Court as a result of the incident; however, the Duchesne Duch-esne County Attorney's Office dismissed those charges in March when Cammans was indicted by a federal grand jury. Cammans is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 17. He faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Gonzalez may be deported for handgun possession Pedro Banda Gonzalez - the man who authorities say fired a gun at another man during a dispute at the old Petroleum Downs racetrack last spring-will not serve anymore time in jail, under an order issued Wednesday by a U.S. District Court judge. Instead Gonzalez, who has been behind bars since his arrest in March 2007, will be turned over to officials with the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings, Judge Ted Stewart said. Stewart's order was issued during a sentencing hearing for Gonzalez. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty four months ago to being an illegal alien in possession pos-session of a firearm. He faced the possibility of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. , . ; On March 14, 2007, Gonzalez and another man got into an argument that escalated to the point where Gonzalez pulled a .22-caliber handgun and fired it, according to authorities. Gonzalez Gonza-lez then ran into a stand of trees between the old racetrack and East Elementary School, prompting prompt-ing Roosevelt police to briefly put CaiT789-3511 VISIT YOUR NEAREST BRANCH TODAY! 0n approved Offer expires NCUA Express the school on lockdown. Gonzalez was found hiding in the trees by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper and taken into custody without incident. He was initially charged in state court with attempted murder and possession of a firearm by a restricted person. Those charges were dismissed after a federal grand jury indicted Gonzalez in January. At Wednesday's hearing, Stewart ordered Gonzalez to spend 36 months on federal probation if he is not deported. If Gonzalez is expelled from the U.S., Stewart said he is prohibited from re-entering the country illegally. il-legally. 2 Roosevelt men waive hearing in robbery case Two men accused of breaking break-ing into another man's home last month and robbing him at knifepoint waived their preliminary prelimi-nary hearings on Thursday in Roosevelt's 8th District Court. Herder Randolfo Reyes, 25, and Marlon Recinos, 19, are each charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and three counts each of unlawful possession posses-sion a dangerous weapon. Reyes is also charged with intoxication, while Recinos faces one count of unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor. Waiving a preliminary hearing is common and is not an indication indica-tion of guilt by a defendant. The hearing his held to determine whether there is probable cause to believe a crime occurred and whether probable cause exists to believe that prosecutors have charged the right person with the crime. Accordingto Roosevelt police, Recinos was detained after he was found running through a neighborhood near 500 E. 200 South at about 2:30 a.m. on June . 8. Officers said Recinos could not provide an explanation for why he was running and appeared to be intoxicated. While looking for another man seen running with Recinos, officers received a call that an armed robbery had occurred nearby. An officer responding to the robbery call encountered Reyes and stopped to talk to him. Police said Reyes' clothing did not match the description of the robbery suspect. But investigators inves-tigators said the alleged victim identified Reyes and Recinos as the men who robbed him. 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Visitor injured on monument day trip A day-trip participant was injured Sunday, July 6, when he dove into the Green River while rafting through Dinosaur National Monument. Dane Mariott, 30 of Vernal, had been rafting with friends when the stopped to swim at Adrift Beach in the Split Mountain Moun-tain Gorge. The group noticed Mariott floating face-down and pulled him from the water. Serena Dennis, a monument employee, and Jim Linville, monument volunteer, vol-unteer, working a short distance away responded to the groups calls for help. Dennis, a wilderness first responder, and Linville, a Routt County emergency medical technician, tech-nician, revived and stabilized Mariott and transported him to an ambulance at the Split Mountain boat ramp. Marriott was taken to Ashley Regional Medical Center and later airlifted to Salt Lake City for treatment of a broken neck. Members of park river concessioners con-cessioners Outward Bound and Holiday along with Uintah County Sheriffs office and Gold Cross Ambulance Service also assisted National Park Service employees with the incident. Ethics panel will begin investigation of Walker SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -The House Ethics Committee has held its first meeting in an investigation inves-tigation of a complaint against Rep. Mark Walker. The Sandy Republican is accused of making an improper - and possibly illegal - offer of a job and a raise to the state's chief deputy treasurer Richard Ellis as both sought the GOP nomination in a primary contest. Ellis thumped Walker 60 percent to 40 percent in the statewide election last week. Committee co-chairman Rep. Todd Kiser, R-Sandy, said the committee would meet Monday, July 7, after press time. The meeting was open to the public. pub-lic. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers called for the ethics investigation. Elevate Your mountain America CREDIT UNION A3 Vernal w oman accused of having sex with teen By Geoff Lispt Uintah Basin News Service A 22-year-old Vernal woman has been charged with two felonies felo-nies for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old boy in May. Wendy White is charged with forcible sodomy, a first degree felony, and unlawful sexual activity activ-ity with a minor, a third-degree felony. Police became aware of the alleged contact between White and the teenager while investigating inves-tigating a theft complaint filed by the boy's mother, according to a probable cause statement filed Naples Police Sgt. Manny Escoto. Escoto interviewed the alleged al-leged victim, who said he'd taken medication on May 2 1 that made him drowsy and he'd gone to bed. The boy said he awoke to find White having sex with him, the sergeant said. " (He) woke up and told Wendy to get out of (his) room," Escoto said, adding that the teen's sister may have witnessed White entering enter-ing the boy's room. During an initial interview with police, White said she'd been drinking the night of the alleged incident and had entered the teen's room to talk to him, according to Escoto. The woman told investigators that the boy had asked her to have sex with him and she consented briefly. "Wendy was crying and sobbing sob-bing a lot when she was talking to me," Escoto wrote in his statement, noting that when he first contacted White she asked if she was going to be arrested. "Wendy's demeanor was that of a person who did something wrong and was trying to hide it." Escoto talked with the alleged al-leged victim after speaking with White, and then brought White back in for a second interview. The sergeant said she admitted to having sex with the teen, but claimed that he was "a willing participant." White was arrested and booked into the Uintah County Jail. She later posted $10,000 bail and was released. White is due to make her initial court appearance on July 14 before 8th District Court Judge John R. Anderson. She faces five years to life in prison if convicted of the forcible sodomy charge and zero to five years in prison if convicted on the charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. I Business July 9, 2008 |