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Show Springville irrigation Continued from page 1 Creek natural flow and 4,490 AF is Strawberry water; however, no strawberry water is allotted to Plat "A." The State Engineer has designated the duty of water to be 4 AF per acre in Utah Valley; however, Hobble Creek provides only 3 AF per acre. Thus, the additional acre-foot supplied by storage from Strawberry Reservoir bring the duty of water up to the 4 AF per acre set by the State Engineer. As the city has grown and irrigated cropland has changed to residential subdivisions subdi-visions and industrial parks, the city has required developers develop-ers to transfer their shares of irrigation water to the city, including any Strawberry water or water shares in other irrigation systems. As a result, the city currently owns more than half of the stock in Springville Irrigation Company, including the associated Strawberry water. The city has also acquired significant shares of water in the other independent irrigation irriga-tion companies. Strawberry water that has been converted to residential use is considered to be municipal mu-nicipal and industrial water, even though it is technically used for irrigation of lawns and gardens. Thus, it must be paid for at the municipal water rate established by the United States and SWUA. aii r i i j aii oi mese cnanges ana transitions require the city to take a whole new look at the management of its irrigation water. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE In April 1989, Mayor Ken Creer appointed a water-advisory water-advisory board comprised of Springville citizens and members of the City Council. Coun-cil. One of its first tasks was to investigate the feasibility of a secondary irrigation system; that is, to place the irrigation water into a piped system, under pressure, for more efficient and manageable manage-able operation. I ' ' A feasibility : report was completed in 1995 by an engineering firm which concluded con-cluded that a secondary system could be provided for the entire city except Plat "A" for about 18 million dollars. The financing could be provided by a combination of funding from the Central Utah Project Conservation Development Fund; the Utah Board of Water Resources Loan Fund; and the issuing of revenue bonds by the city. Applications for funding were submitted to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and the Utah Board of Water Resources in 1996, but the city was informed that they would not be acted upon until the matter of delivering Central Utah Project water in south Utah Valley was resolved. Also, it was necessary that the dispute dis-pute between SWUA and the U.S. Dept. of Interior be settled over the conversion of Strawberry water from irrigation irriga-tion to municipal and industrial indus-trial use; the ownership of Strawberry water; and the joint use of the new Syar-Sixth Syar-Sixth Water Tunnel. Meanwhile, the city adopted adop-ted an ordinance requiring all new subdivisions to install piping for secondary water when it becomes available. In 1997 Stouffer's installed piping, and the city provided a booster pumping station, to deliver secondary water from the effluent discharge canal of the Water Reclamation Plant to irrigate the lawn area surrounding its facilities. The city prepared plans and specifications in 1999, and solicited bids to install the piping and booster pump to supply secondary irrigation irriga-tion water from the Water Reclamation Plant to the new developments in the West Fields area. However, the bids came in way over the engineer's estimate and the project was postponed. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE The problem of managing the city's irrigation water will not go away. Attendant to the management of irrigation irriga-tion water is the problem of disposal of storm water originating in the city and its future service area. The Clean Water Act passed by Congress in 1972 mandates the clean up and management of storm water and the issuance issu-ance of a discharge permit to dispose of storm water to Utah Lake. The Utah Division of Water Quality is administering administer-ing the overall discharge ORDER YOUR MOTHER A CAKE TODAY! SOMETHING DIFFERENT ORDER AHEAD OR PICK FROM DISPLAY IF YOU WANT A PICTURE OF MOM ON THE CAKE BRING IT IN! SPRINGVILLE DQ 491-0453 CLOSED SUNDAYS permit for cities with a population popu-lation of 100,000 or less, and is requiring each city to create a storm drainage utility to operate, maintain and manage storm water and drainage. Management of storm water and drainage is not new to Springville. The application of irrigation water in the city and surrounding sur-rounding area for 50 years caused a rising ground-water level in the fields south, north and west of Springville. Spring-ville. Consequently, in about 1920 a drainage district was created under State Law by the affected landowners to control the fluctuating water table and to dispose of the excess water. Drainage districts are similar to irrigation districts in their authority. They are quasi-public agencies with power to own, construct, operate, maintain, manage and fund drainage works. They also have power to incur indebtedness, assess taxes on the affected lands within the district, contract, finance and bond 'for the construction, operation, maintenance and management of the drainage works. The Drainage District located in the area west of Springville has been operated and maintained for 80 years by the landowners having property within its boundaries. bound-aries. New subdivisions and other developments are being constructed in the area served by the district and storm runoff from these developments develop-ments is channeled to the existing drains. Thus, the existing system needs to be enlarged and rehabilitated to treat and convey storm drainage drain-age water in accordance with the discharge permit. There is a critical need to investigate the feasibility of combing the existing Springville Spring-ville Irrigation District and the West Fields Drainage District into a single irrigation irriga-tion and drainage utility, to construct, operate, maintain and manage secondary irrigation irriga-tion water and storm drainage. drain-age. A comprehensive study needs to be done of the operation and management of the existing' systems f'deter- mine the improvements necessary to upgrade, rehabilitate reha-bilitate and improve the systems; and make cost estimates and evaluate financ- MOTHER'S DAY SUNDAY, Mapleton Art Show The Mapleton Library is hosting an art show from May 11 to May 31, which includes the work of Lana , Merrell's art students. The students are as follows: fol-lows: Elizabeth Ballard, Layne Ballard, Spencer Ballard, Virginia Ballard, Joshua Bladh, Blaine Blon-quist, Blon-quist, Karen Broderick, Lee R. Broderick, Mercede Broderick, Brod-erick, Andrew Dearden, Kanyon Halterman, Allyson Harward, Deson Haynie, Emily Jennings, Amanda Larsen, Rachael Larsen, Lane Leishman, Lara Leish-man, Leish-man, Rachel Leishman, Reese Loveless, Gary Loveless, Love-less, Carly, Meek, Hayley Meek, Lance Merrell, Tyler Merrell, Shalya Miller, Mishala Petersen, Shyrel Petersen, McKell Priest, Bryce Snyder, Clayton Spencer, Spen-cer, Alex Snedigar, Ryan Sommerfeldt and Aubrey Smith. The students are between the ages of 8 and 75 and range from beginning to advanced students. Various mediums were used in the students' works. Congratulations to the students for their hard work and for an incredible art show! The United Nations adopted ad-opted its charter at the famous fa-mous San Francisco Conference Confer-ence in 1945. ing options. Many other cities along the Wasatch Front have done what is being suggested herein. Provo has had an irrigation and drainage utility , in place for 10 years, and it has worked successfully. Orem and Pleasant Grove have also done so. Pay son and Spanish Fork have moved ahead with the installation instal-lation of pressure irrigation systems, and have not waited for the Central Utah Project. This is an urgent matter for Springviljej.Jhe, problem (won',i,gQ, away, and, the cost , will not get any cheaper! The Springville Mayor and City Council welcome the input of citizens of Springville on this vital issue. TH MAY 11 May 7, 2003 - The Springville Herald - Page Three ""if r- "1 ... r. t Mapleton Mayor Dean Allan is shown here speaking at Maplcton's Ira Allan Sports Park Dedication, Saturday, May 3. ports park is dedicated .Sat, Despite a small hurricane, the Ira Allan Sports Park was dedicated on Saturday, May 3. All members of the community com-munity were invited to attend the dedication, dinner and celebration for Mapleton City's new park. The park was dedicated to the youth of the community and the past, present and future coaches and volunteers. volun-teers. A beautiful monument was unveiled and a ribbon-cutting ribbon-cutting was performed by Mayor Dean Allan. Mapleton Youth Baseball and Softball Opening Day was held in conjunction with the park dedication. Over 60 Mapleton baseball and soft-ball soft-ball teams participated in a parade just prior to the dedication.. dedi-cation.. .,... , Thanks goes to all of the volunteers and the generous donations of time and money to make the Ira Allan Sports Park dream a reality. It is a great tribute to the commit "-WXi ' - JIM) ' ' - k - &j ment the city has to Maple-ton's Maple-ton's youth. Special thanks to Mayor Dean Allan, Council member Ben Card, Parks Committee members Cyril Thompson and Jan Hadlock; Council member Cynthia Edmunds and the Tree Committee; Council member Lori Allen and the Recreation Committee; Commit-tee; The Ira Allan Celebration Celebra-tion Committee Doug and Janice Andersen, Bruce and Marcie Dickerson, Mary Lundberg and Gwen Parkinson; Parkin-son; the youth council; speaker, spea-ker, Revae Allan; Richard Beesley and Beesley Monument Monu-ment for the craftsmanship on the monument; the city's Public Works and Park employees; em-ployees; the police, fire and ambulance departments; Collin Allan; and the many others involved. |