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Show ILeititen's it Congrats for Great Festival Dear Editor: The Park City Chamber of Commerce Commer-ce would like to extend congratulations to Don Gomes, director of the Eleventh Annual Arts Festival, the Arts Festival Committee, and numerous volunteers, for their outstanding demonstration of community organization and involvement. in-volvement. Perhaps the greatest significance of this event stems from the spirit of cooperation demonstrated by residents and businesses alike. Credit must be given to both entities for opening their streets to the masses and dealing so well with the impact characteristic of such a large number of visitors. Without question, the Arts Festival has become one of Park City's most noteworthy events. Its success has become a standard by which other major events and activities may be measured. Its value is not totally inherent in the weekend commerce brought to Park City, but rather, it is also realized in the long term benefits derived, as Park City develops its reputation as an outstanding and active four-season resort community. The Chamber appreciates the input and constructive suggestions provided by their membership during the many months of planning and preparation. These ideas were thought through and impelmented, making a significant contribution to the total success of the Festival. Thank you and congratulations, Park City, for another successful Arts Festival. The positive attitude maintained main-tained by residents and businesses throughout the weekend is truly commendable. com-mendable. Thank you, Don Gomes, for the tremendous amount of energy you expended ex-pended in your position as director. We recognize the amount of work involved Hwy. Signs: Auto-vacationers bound for Park City and Park West should have an easier time finding their destination after September, when the Utah Department of Transportation plans to erect six highway directional signs on the main interchanges and highways feeding into the resort areas. Dan Julio, UDOT traffic engineer, said Monday that two signs will be placed on both sides of 1-80 at Kimball Junction, one sign will be on Hwy. 224 just after that junction, two will be at the junction of Hwys. 40 and 248, and another sign will be at the Hwys. 224-248 junction, by the Holiday Inn. All the signs will be the white-on-brown information rectangles that the highway department uses for recreation recrea-tion areas. Each sign will name both recreation areas, Park West and Park City, and will give directional information. infor-mation. "We'll have the signs installed probably by September, certainly before the snow flies," said Julio, who supervises the four-man crew that installs highway signs for the state. The push to get the signs installed before the winter came at an ad hoc Jordanelle's Are plans to build the Jordanelle Dam and Reservoir in imminent danger of being scrapped because of geologic faults at the proposed site? That might be the impression a reader of last Thursday's and Friday's Salt Lake Tribune might get from articles on the subject, but project officials say the articles are misleading. "We know of nothing at this stage that might turn us away from our original plans. I thing the Tribune articles ar-ticles showed a bit of journalistic license," li-cense," Bill Durrant, of the Provo office of the U.S. Water and Power Resources Service, told The Newspaper Tuesday. "We have launched an extensive program of geologic drilling and trenching trench-ing on our primary site to ensure that the area provides the necessary stability for the dam and reservoir. But we won't start any construction on the project until we arrive at definite conclusions con-clusions about the integrity- of the geology." That such drilling and testing was to be conducted prior to construction was well-known last year. Confusion about the testing program may have resulted because it was started months ago, then temporarily abandoned when the contracted con-tracted drilling firm was found to have inadequate equipment to perform the job. A new firm now has been awarded the drilling contract. Therefore, said Durrant, the new testing is not the result of worrisome findings from the first tests, but rather a resumption of the original test plans. He added that the failure of the first tests cost the project about six months of time. The entire testing is expected to take three years. The project will be completed in 15 years of phased development. Once construction begins, the reservoir is expected to be filled in 1990. The Jordanelle Dam and Reservoir is the key feature of a municipal and industrial in-dustrial (M & I) water system of the Central Utah Project's Bonneville Unit. The primary purpose of the project is to provide 90,000 acre-feet of municip.il and industrial water, collected from th.' Provo and Weber rivers, for the rapidly growing areas of Salt Lake City and northern Utah County. Another 14,000 acre-feet is allocated for irrigation purposes pur-poses in Summit and Wasatch Counties. itllne IEdlfiTtair in this undertaking, and you did a superior job in seeing to it that the weekend went so well. Sincerely, Park City Chamber of Commerce Obvious Choice for The Job, He Says Editor: I recently submitted my resume to the City for the position of Pi rk City Building Inspector. Since the city has received so many applications and since it is widely known that our City Officials Of-ficials thoroughly review every aspect of a potential employee's background, I feel that if my credentials become known publicly, the obvious choice for Building Inspector will be me. In the 8 years I've been a part-time Park City resident, I've held a number of challenging and diversified jobs related to engineering and construction. construc-tion. In 1975 1 was hired as an engineer to build a light aircraft landing strip in Ooxaca, Mexico. That project brought me numerous accolades for perfecting after dark landing procedures when runway lights were inoperative. Before I was hired as the Chief Structural Struc-tural Engineer at the Teton Dam in 1976, 1 briefly worked in Park City as an Undercover Agent for Thayle Lund's Special Drug Investigation Team. For the past 6 months I've developed those skills needed when working with the public by acting as the Public Relations Director for the Russian Olympic Pistol Team currently touring in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, I am not currently available for an employment interview. It seems that Southern California Law Enforcement Officials have mistaken me for an individual they suspect was involved in 4 or 5 liquor store robberies. My attorney informs me that as soon as the problem of an illegally obtained Win Some, Lose Some July 11 meeting between UDOT officials, including Dan Julio, Utah and Mountain Lands Travel Council representatives repre-sentatives and former Park West Director Dick Frost. A brainstorming session during the meeting attempted to create ways, other than the new signs, to help visiting tourists get to the resort areas. "One idea we came up with was to rename Hwy. 248 Prospector Avenue or Prospector Boulevard, to help tourists find Prospector Square," said Mountain Moun-tain Lands, Travel Council Director Darrell Cook. 'Wet-also- toyed with renaming Park Ave. as Main Street. These were just tentative ideas, no formal agreement or recommendation was made. It would be up to the city (Park City) to initiate and carry out the idea... .(but) it's been my experience that tourists need careful instruction if they are to find a particular destination in Park City, and the proposed name changes could help." County Demands Removal of Billboards While plans were being finalized by the state to install new signs on the Problems Not Secondary functions of the project include in-clude generations of electricity, flood control and recreational opportunities. The current location of the project is entirely within Wasatch County, about 15 miles from Park City. For a more precise idea, locate the town of Keetley on a map. The reservoir, if built at the proposed site, would turn the town into a modern Atlantis the entire town would be submerged. The 38 families now living in Keetley would, of course, receive government assistance in relocating. The Jordanelle's site was chosen as the most feasible site from several alternatives studied by the USWPRS. Alternate proposals were either more expensive, too disruptive to the environment, en-vironment, or would provide less water. But not everyone agrees with the USWPRS reservoir dam site choice. The Noranda Mine Co. of Park City has been critical of the Jordanelle site because possible water seepage under the Keetley arm of the reservoir could add to already existing flooding problems the mining company must contend with. Noranda officials claim that while none of their current tunnels are directly under the proposed site's reservoir, the faults in the area would drain reservoir water directly to their tunnels that run below the reservoir level, even though the tunnels are some lateral distance away. "It has been our contention that the faults in the area would be like a host that empties Jordanelle water into Noranda tunnels." said Greg Cox. senior geologist for Noranda. According to Cox. one of the preliminary trenches dug for a seismic-tectonic seismic-tectonic evaluation indicated possible seepage problems where the dam's abutments will be constructed. However, Cox HiliiU'(l out that the tests are preliminary and that the USWPRS has promised Nurunda a serious reconsideration recon-sideration nl the proposed site if geologic tests Hhou the mine's tunnels would indeed be flooded. Jordanelle engineers feel the geologic faults are minor enough to be self-sealing, self-sealing, given the thick subsurface clay deposits they have found. John Larson, i ''ruction engineer for the Jor-utiitbllc, Jor-utiitbllc, mi ' Vor-nda's concerns are confusion is resolved, I will be ready to begin work. Sincerely, Herbert Langeley Park City Once Again, Thank You Editor: The 1980 Park City Arts Festival now is history. An event of this magnitude does not happen, let alone successfully, without the hard work of many people: the Arts Festival committee, the artists' jury and the performers' jury laid the foundation and picked the players; the Park City Police Department Depart-ment and the University of Utah police, parking and transportation people who moved the crowds with hardly a hitch; the fire department and EMTs who always were ready for any emergency; the bus change kids and their supervisors who served as front line ambassadors; the hospitality crew who served artist and visitor alike; the clean-up crew that kept Main Street clean and clear; the property owners who allowed access to their land; the stage and sound crews who kept the entertainment rolling; the credit card center and state tax collection effort; the live KPCW radio reports and press coverage by The Newspaper and Park Record; the Main Street merchants who helped clean the streets before and after; and the performance sponsors. The festival was fun and profitable for many. The greatest profit is knowing that Park City takes such pride in doing things so well. I want to thank the many people who got involved or lent their cooperation. My job ran much smoother because so many chose to participate. It was successful because many Park City people chose to participate. Park City can be proud of its Arts Festival. Thanks, Park City, Don Gomes 1980 Arts Festival Director highways leading into Park City, Summit County government was taking steps to have advertising billboards on the same roads removed. The county development code adopted August 1, 1977 called for the removal of all non-accessory signs within 500 feet on either side of Hwys. 224 and 248. Deadline of the code passed last week. Three commercial companies Monroe, Mon-roe, Park West, and Kindersport that had billboards on the highways already have voluntarily removed them. Six more billboards owned by Chateau Apres, National Advertising Company,; and Galaxy Advertising have yet to come down. County Planner Stan Strebel told The Newspaper that getting the two large advertising companies, National and Galaxy, to remove their billboards may prove to be more of a fight. "I think these larger advertisers will put up some resistance," he said. "The planning office sent letters some time ago to these companies to comply with the code; this week it will be the County Attorney's office that sends the letters." Their Fault well known by USWPRS and it is one reason for the extensive drill tests. The other main reason for the tests, of course, is to insure that the reservoir will be strong enough; the USWPRS doesn't want to take chances with faults after the failure of the Teton, Idaho, dam in 1977. What if, and it is a big if by most counts, the current Jordanelle site is abandoned as being geologically unsound? un-sound? The project would certainly not be dropped; the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem area has grown too much, and planned for too much additional growth, for the water to be denied. Instead, In-stead, the USWPRS probably would review the alternate sites that were rejected in the original environmental impact and feasibility studies. One of three possible alternate sites, the so-called so-called Pine Valley alternative, would put half of the reservoir in Wasatch County, half in Summit County. That would most certainly change Summit County's and Park City's present blase reaction to the reservoir, since the project has long been viewed by Summit Sum-mit citizen's as a Wasatch County problem. Are there any supporters of the Pine Valley alternate? Yes, Noranda. Noran-da. "The Pine Valley alternative would put the reservoir just east of Woodland and astride the Provo River (the demarcation between Wasatch and Summit Counties)," said Cox. "We (Noranda) have favored this site because there is no problem with mineral deposits being flooded. The Pine Valley site would be too high to collect Weber River water, so the reservoir would hold only Provo River water. While this would mean the total capacity of the reservoir would be less than at the currently proposed site, the water would be cleaner because it would not contain drainage from farmlands farm-lands of Heber Valley." Whatever the outcome of the geologic tests, Wasatch and Summit County residents appear to have a three-year breathing space before construction begins. That is of no comfort to the populations of Salt Lake and Utah Counties, who have been counting on the Jordanelle to supplement the water supply they quickly are outgrowing. X"TT .p,. rB MB 111 8p.ni., Carl Winters I (DAHJEMDDAIBI Jr 7 performance; 8 p.m. tent in Prospector Square Thursday Social Security representative at Memorial Building; 2 p.m. City Council meeting; 7 p.m.; Prospector Square Conference Center 'Once Upon a Mattress' performance; 8 p.m.. Prospector Square tent Jody's vs. Players, men's soflball; 6 p.m., High School Ontario vs. Mad Jacks ; men's Softball; 8: 15 p.m.. City Park Saturday Muckers rubgy team playing at Lake Tahoe Miss Summit County Pageant; 8p.m.. Park City High 'Once I'pon a Mattress' performance; 8 p.m., tent in Prospector Square 'Company' performance 8 p.m., Carl Winters Middle School Friday Reception for 'Company; '6:30 p.m.; Kimball Art Center 'Company' opens at 8 p.m.; Carl Winters Middle School 'Once Upon a Mattress' OPEN 6:00 to 11:00 CLOSED MONDAYS SOME OF OUR SPECIALITIES INCLUDE Filet Medallion Roast Duck Crab Lobster Scampi New York Prime Rib Chicken Cordon Bleu THE HOLIDAY INN TENNIS CENTER PRESENTS AUGUST SPECIALS! Every Day in the Month of August Private Lesson -$15.00 Semi-Private Lesson - $21.00 ri. THE YARROW A o&xfia Sw Resort The Newspaper A. , Ml Vl' City Park Janeaux's vs. Prospector Square, ladies soflball; 12:30 p.m., High School Mad Jacks vs. Janeaux's men's soflball; 1:30 p.m.. City Park Mt.Air Cafe vs. Bagel Nosh, ladies soflball ; 2 p.m., High School Doc's vs. Prospector; men's soflball; 3 p.m., City Park Kl Papagayo vs. Finney's, ladies soflball; 3:30p.m., High School Ontario vs. Old Men, men's softball; 4:30 p.m., City Park Meeks vs. Janeaux's, men's softball; 5 p.m., High School Doe's vs. Players, men's softball; 6 p.m.. City Park Yacht Club vs. Jody's, men's softball; 6:30 p.m., High School Woodhaus vs. Ontario, men's softball; 7:30 p.m., City Park Mose Alison at Snowbird Resort ; 5 p.m. Sunday Mad Jacks vs. Old Men men's Softball; 10::i0 a.m., High School Meeks vs. Yacht Club, men's Softball, 10:30 a.m.. City Park Woodhaus vs. Players, men's Softball; noon, 5 per hour 200 TENNIS INSTRUCTION OFFERED Group Lesson - $20 (for 4 I -hour lessons) $26 (for 4 I 'i -hour lessons) JuniOrS -$12 (for 4 l -hour lessons) Group lessons require minimum of 4 people. HOLIDAY INN TENNIS CENTER IS OPEN FROM 9-5. AFTER 5:00 UPON REQUEST. 649-7000 Thursday, August 7, 1980 Page 3 Monday Prospector Square s. Finney's, ladies soflball; 6p.m. City Park Janeaux's vs. Mt. Air Cafe; ladies softball; 7:30 p.m.. City Park Tuesday Historical Society meeting, noon, Kimball Art Center; All welcome Free Blood Pressure Clinic; 3-5 p.m.; Summit Co. Health Dept; 407 Main St. Janeaux's vs. Doc's, men's softball; 6 p.m. High School Wednesday American Assoc. of University Women meeting; 1 p.m., Holiday Inn Planning Commission meeting, 7:30 p.m., Prospector Square Conference Center Prospector vs. Meeks, men's softball; 6 p.m., High School Jody's vs. Ontario, men's softball; 6 p.m., City Park Old Men vs. Woodhaus, men's softball; 7:30p.m., City Park 1 306 Main St. Park City, Utah 649-6800 Yes, We Rent Racquets! ALSO |