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Show Page AS Thursday, February 26, 1987 Parle Record County News Atkinson water service district explores expansion options ! by HEIDI WEST Kecord staff writer The newly fueled Atkinson Special Service District is having a hard time sputtering to a start. Although representatives of Atkinson Atkin-son Water Company and the developers of Silver Summit were invited to attend a meeting with Summit County Commissioners Feb. 24, only a homeowner board member and representative from High Valley Water Company showed up. The issue at hand was how to resolve problems between the Atkinson Atkin-son company, which presently owns and leases wet water rights from its well at Silver Summit to the 70 homeowners there, and High Valley water company, which actually ensures en-sures that water is delivered to the houses. The homeowners have been paying for their water all along, said John Lind, a member of the Silver Summit Homeowners Association, out for the last 18 or so months, that money hasn't made it to High Valley. Now and for the past year, payments have been made into a separate account, said Lind. When legal battles between the two water companies have been resolved, High Valley will get the contents of that account. The water company battle is not ihe only water problem plaguing the little community, though. Its present storage capacity is about 100,000 gallons, and that is 80,000 gallons short of the amount needed by the Park City Fire Service District to put out a single house fire. Since adding storage is something Atkinson Water Company seems unlikely to do on its own, the homeowners formed a special service ser-vice district which can tax itself to make the necessary improvements. Instead of just floating bonds to finance the new half-million-gallon tank it has decided to build, Silver Springs has opted for enlarging the existing well to provide more than 00 wet water shares. It is trying now to sell those shares to prospec-I prospec-I i ve future developers in the area. The county, in charge of administering ad-ministering the district, sent letters out to property owners within the district asking if they would be interested in-terested in buying those shares at about $700 to $800 each. One landowner lan-downer in the northeast corner of the district asked that 400 of the shares be reserved for him. The LDS Church, which owns a large chunk of land in the area, has not yet decided whether it wants to invest in buying water shares now. "People don't know their plans well enough to commit on a subscription level," explained Stan Strebel, county general services director. Each of the homeowners in Silver Summit has agreed to incumber their property for $700 to $800 to pay for their portion of the new tank and the delivery system needed to bring the water to their houses. The security on the money is that if they don't pay their once or twice-yearly fee, service is turned off, making the home uninhabitable, said Strebel. But because the selling of shares has been slow in coming, the plans for the district expansion have been on hold. Meanwhile, Silver Summit is not adequately protected from fire, and Highland Estates is essentially essen-tially unable to grow. The new storage tank would provide a hookup hook-up for Highland Estates to be used in emergencies. The extra water would mean the area could grow from 90 to 140 homes, said High Valley Water Company board member Leon Uriarte. A representative from Little Christie Ranch sketched his company's com-pany's tentative proposal to do its own wet water expansion if the special service district fails to get off the ground. The plan would include in-clude developing "a number of wet sources," two large reservoirs, and hardware for more than 6,000 connections con-nections to accompany a development develop-ment plan north of 1-80 near Silver Creek Junction. Summit, Wasatch Co. borders shifted to match for Census There seems to be a "gap" between bet-ween the Wasatch and Summit county coun-ty borders near the Provo River headwaters, according to the U.S. Bureau of Census. Although the Summit County line was "drawn six different places on the six maps" Summit County Recorder Alan Spriggs consulted in his research for county commissioners commis-sioners on the boundary, the 1972 .USGS Mirror Lake Quadrangle map shows that line a mile or two north of where Wasatch County plots it. The different line was noted by the Census Cen-sus Bureau in January 1987, when it informed both counties of the discrepency. There were three criteria Spriggs used in deciding which of the six lines the county should claim as its border. First, the boundary has to comply with a geographic description descrip-tion of the headwaters of the Provo River, he said. Second, it had to be as consistent as possible with historic representations representa-tions of the line. Spriggs found a 1901 map to help him in determining just how the border had been drawn in the past. And third, the line had to be compatible com-patible with existing borders not only on-ly in Wasatch and Summit counties, but with a Duchesne County line which joins these from the south. Diamond V Teapot Lake S yx V r-p i . a L ji The U.S. Census Bureau brought it to their attention, but the Summit and Wasatch County lines don't agree in the area around the headwaters of Provo River. The solid line is Summit's version, the dotted Wasatch. After questions by the commissioners commis-sioners on whether moving the border would result in any lost tax base or new roads to maintain, Spriggs recommended the line as drawn on the 1972 USGS quad map be the one commissioners adopted as their own. He had talked with Wasatch County Attorney Steve Hansen, he said, and the line seemed acceptable to him. Commissioners unanimously agreed with Spriggs' suggestions, and will await a similar approval by Wasatch before the adopted boundary boun-dary is sent to the Bureau of Census. fflM 13 Available '87 Va TON 4x4 1532' Fuel ininc'ed anqm. aua. 'ual tart rufiSimgptii twet siwo4:'Ock cocwamanea to tach jiiijmc ir wirocw 11,583 REBATE '600 21 Available 87 TON SUPERCAB 4x4 26 Available '87 34 TON 4x4 5" V 26659 15377. Lariat. 460 V8, 4 spd , 8800 GVW. spaed com., tilt wheal, pwr. door locks, pwr. maowa. trailer rwo pxg., a'act. 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White Pine Ranches, a 6-unit subdivision sub-division of 5-acre ranches in White Pine Canyon, was approved by the Summit County Planning Commission Commis-sion in late 1983, but conditions imposed im-posed as part of that approval and a subsequent appeal to the County Board of Commissioners started a legal battle between Saunders and Summit County which is still going on. Then County Commissioner Cliff Blonquist, named individually in the federal suit and appeal which is pending pen-ding now, wrote a letter to Adkins in December 1986, shortly before he left office. The letter asked Adkins to research whether the county had dealt fairly" with Saunders. At about the same time, Summit County Coun-ty Planning Commissioner Van Martin, Mar-tin, who had worked for J.J. Johnson Consultants when Saunders hired the firm to plan his development, also wrote to say he thought some of the conditions were unreasonable. A particular bone of contention is the requirement imposed on White Pine Ranches by the county and Snyderville Sewer Improvement District for a line larger than needed to serve the six ranchettes up to the new development. The District paid for the additional size of the line, but Saunders still put the vast majority of the $250,000 into the sewer project. In the Jan. 28 letter from Felton to Adkins, the supportive letters written writ-ten by Commissioners Martin and Blonquist are cited as reasons for Adkins to get involved. "Is your office of-fice going to become involved or help sweep it under the carpet?" askes Felton. The County Attorney's office has been involved in the White Pine development since Saunders first filed fil-ed suit, but their involvement has been primarily to defend the county against Saunders allegations. Adkins has indicated he will not respond to Felton's request to investigate in-vestigate the matter via a Grand Jury. I ASK Dr. Robinson By Dane Q. 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