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Show Thursday, July 10, 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 3 Mapleton starts schedule to cope with low water pressure Janice Peterson STAFF WRITER Mapleton city's pressurized pres-surized irrigation system is feeling the pressure of too many residents using the water at once, and the city has now, implemented imple-mented a voluntary watering wa-tering schedule. Mayor Laurel Brady said the system does not have adequate capacity for the city's residents, and the city will need to do something soon to relieve re-lieve pressure from users. us-ers. The problem is not new to Mapleton residents, resi-dents, who have been hit by low water pressure in past summers. , "We have had to go to a voluntary schedule for the past several years," Brady said. The pressurized irrigation irriga-tion system serves only 600 of Mapleton's residents; resi-dents; a result of the En-sign-Bickford settlement. The settlement required a well to continuously pump water in order to filter contaminated water, wa-ter, and Brady said the cityhose to install a pressurized irrigation system at Ensign-Bick-ford's expense to take advantage of that water. Without even a small irrigation system, the pumped water would simply go into a creek. Even when the system was built, Brady said the city was aware it was not adequate for all of Mapleton's residents, but the 600 residents served over 10 years was benefit ben-efit enough. "We've known that it was not going to be an adequate system, but the feeling was that it was better to have something than nothing," she said. During the summer, , Brady said high usage has depleted the water supply, especially with new large users xn the system such as Mapleton Junior High. The city is now looking into immediate imme-diate and long-term solu-tions solu-tions for residents. New users have not been allowed al-lowed on the system for ; at least 18 months, and filters in the system are ? now changed every other oth-er day instead of weekly, increasing output by 10 percent. The city is also looking look-ing into long-term fixes such as a new citywide system. The newest solution so-lution for this summer is the voluntary usage schedule, which limits Grand Marshall's Continued from page 1 family farm where they grew and sold peaches. He served in the military during dur-ing WWII from 1944-1946 as a part of the Signal Corp in the Pacific. When Nino was first married he worked at Smart's Feed in Springville and then as a Hot Plant operator op-erator at Thorn's Construction, Construc-tion, where he worked for 20 years. He then worked at Givens and Reed building build-ing power plants and later at Morris and Knudson where he retired some 21 years ago. Retirement hasn't meant sitting still for Nino. Perhaps Per-haps you have had flowers delivered to your door by a friendly smiling face who delivered flowers for many years for Steiner's Flower shop in Springville. If you ask Nino what his hobbies are, he might say hunting, fishing and golf, but you would have to include the service he has loved for over 18 years, coaching Little League. Arlene grew up in Springville Spring-ville as a Snell but later as a Whiting. She went to jr. high and had classes with Nino. They enjoyed roller skating together and attended at-tended Springville High. Arlene enjoyed being a full-time mom and raising her children in Mapleton. She worked at JC Penney in Provo as an operator for five years and also five years at H&R Block. In 1962 she served as the PTA President for Mapleton School. During that time she spent many hours canvassing the town for support and was very instrumental in keeping Mapleton School from closing. Both she and Nino were active charter members in the JC's where they have done a lot of civic work putting up street signs, developing Little league parks, building the fire station, and the open fire place in the park. They have also been active ac-tive in the LDS church, Arlene has served in various vari-ous callings. She was secretary sec-retary in the YWMIA, Sunday School Secretary; she taught in the Primary and the Sunday school and was also a Cub Scout Leader. Nino, who was born Catholic, was baptized after af-ter all his children were born, by his son Gary, in 1971. He has served as Scout Master, Explorer and Cub Scout leader and now works in the Temple every Friday. It is an honor to recognize recog-nize the Antonino's as the Grand Marshals of the Mapleton City 24th of July celebration and for their many years of dedication and service to the community commu-nity of Mapleton! ?"!'' even-numbered houses to using the system on Monday and Thursday, odd-numbered houses on Tuesday and Friday, city parks on Wednesday and Sunday and churches and city.buildings on Wednesday Wednes-day and Saturday. Mapleton Maple-ton Junior High has also beehi asked to water during dur-ing off-peak hours in the middle of the day. Brady said there are several options on the table, but many would negatively, impact the culinary cu-linary water system the rest of the city uses. "We are trying to re-mQMe re-mQMe some major users," she said. "The problem with that is we would transfer the impact to our culinary system." City Engineer Gary Calder said he has noticed pressure fluctuations in the system as a user, and he is working with the city to try and solve the problems. The system can generally handle the homes that are on it, but not much more. The city has a design for a new reservoir to help contain additional water, but the decision on whether to implement the plan will be up to the city council. "We're looking at building build-ing a reservoir, and the constraints that we have on that are the costs," he said. The schedule has so far had a positive impact on the water pressure, but Brady said the response from residents has been understandably mixed. Many are rightly unhappy unhap-py with the current situation, situ-ation, but Brady said it is important for the city and its residents to understand un-derstand the situation. "A lot of people are trying try-ing to help out by sticking stick-ing with the schedule," she said. "A lot of people are frustrated, as you can imagine, and we don't blame them." City Administrator Bob Bradshaw said residents resi-dents were issued a notice no-tice of the new schedule one week ago, but some have continued to use the system at their discretion. discre-tion. There is no penalty for not abiding by the suggested schedule, but Bradshaw said something must be done to help alleviate alle-viate usage. "If this is not going to succeed on a voluntary basis, the city council will have to consider a mandatory program," he said. Mapleton Junior High registration to be held Registration for all new students planning to attend at-tend Mapleton Jr. High will be held August 4 and 5 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you have questions regarding your student or the registration process please contact the school at 489-2892. The school is open Monday throough Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. Summer Art Classes Continued from page 1 their specific concerns and questions. Classes provide positive, energetic opportunities for growth fostered by friendly friend-ly and caring teachers who love art. In class, students will use professional art supplies, many which they will keep after the program has ended. end-ed. This will help to build their confidence with art making by providing materials ma-terials that respond to their needs, t , Children are able to explore ex-plore the museum, inves tigating ways that artists carry out their ideas. With sketchbook in hand, they are able to record their findings find-ings and use the artworks for creation inspiration. Enrollment is now open for the next session! Children Chil-dren are accepted on a first-come, first -serve basis. ba-sis. Visit the museum and speak with a member of the Education Department to enroll your child. Classes will begin on July 15th and run through August 8th with two, two-hour two-hour classes each week. There are two possible class times: Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. or Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. noon. The enrollment en-rollment fee is $40 to cover supplies. Due to space limitations, only ten students per class will be accepted, so hurry! hur-ry! The museum hopes to expand these classes in upcoming summers to include in-clude more age groups and classes tailored to working in a specific medium. The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday 10-5, Wednesday 10-9 and Sunday Sun-day 3-6. ""I m mm ipiSIElSCfpt Ji II c Qt, , - wmswm m j a t: s 1111 x r 11 m oTOtl Tickets can be purchased online at iwjw.spanislifork.org jl jls-- r?4Pr fS4if fGZ4rai o A( ROniEl. Or 31 III Jcililoii ruiu vny BBiVW w WB -------- ; fag, ': ; : UU MEm or . VbP IJiBi fcssr m ; - (44 3 2mUtticval& ok Mi Pre-Show 7:00 p.m. Rodeo Starts 8:00 p.m. Don't miss this event! Fun for the whole family! 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