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Show SOcctils Vol.115 No. 11 3 sections 50 pages ' ..a MraH Park City, Utah E Serving Summit County since 1880 D April 15, 1993 ml Brief Meadows hearing Monday The Summit County Commission will take public input Monday at 3 p.m. on the proposed 600-acre 600-acre Mountain Meadows development. The project is slated to include 604 units in five different areas of the Snyderville Basin. The hearing will be held in Coalville at the Summit County Courthouse. Plagerism hearing held Former Park City School District Superintendent Nancy Moore's April 13 hearing with the Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission regarding a plagiarism charge lasted approximately ap-proximately four hours, according to Roger Mouritsen, executive secretary of the commission. Mouritsen said he could not comment further on the hearing. Five members of the commission looked at the allegation that Moore plagiarized her 1982 Brigham Young University thesis. Three members cf the panel are ad-ministr uors and two are teachers; "., - This panel will recommeni to the commission on April 16 whether to issue a warning, reprimand or recommend that the Utah State School Board suspend or revoke Moore's certification. Only if the state suspended or revoked her certification would any action become public, he said. Moore had been granted two delays in her hearing. U.S. Ski Team here to stay A recent article in a Colorado newspaper erroneously suggested that the U.S. Ski Team was considering a move from Park City to Arapahoe Basin, according to Tom Kelly, director of communications for the team. The program is "extremely happy" with its Park City location and has never even discussed moving the office to another site, he said. The U.S. Ski Team is looking for a domestic high altitude train-ing site for the summer. PCSA to extend season Park City Ski Area announced yet another extension of its already extended season. The area will remain open until April 25, conditions and ski numbers permitting. Six lifts and the gondola will be open and spring lift ticket rates will be in effect. xJ Night moves 'The last of its kind.. jordanelle Dam begins to fill by CHRIS EISENBERG Record staff writer After decades of planning and debate and nearly six years of construction, the Bureau of Reclamation announced Monday that it has begun storing water behind the almost-finished Jordanelle Dam. .. ... The announcement came nearly three- weeks earlier than anticipated. "We've started a limited filling process," said bureau spokesman Barry Wirth. He explained that while a number of finishing touches remain to be completed, the bureau decided to begin filling the dam Monday to take advantage of this spring's heavy water runoff. "It's kind of like building an office building and being able to move in but still having a little bit of finishing work on the trim,'' he said. The bureau is only allowed to store water that flows through the dam site during winter and spring months. As a result, Wirth said, the few extra weeks of storage will be quite valuable. Previously, the bureau had planned to begin storing water May 1. While the decision to begin filling the dam was good news for the bureau, a number of Utah residents are not as happy. "It's a tragedy," said Provo resident Lillian Hayes, who has fought the project since the early 1970s. Hayes, a member of the Utah Park City by AMBER McKEE Record staff writer Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Luckily for those of us who take the quality of our drinking water for granted, there are a number of people in Park City who take it very seriously. So seriously, in fact, they just spent a five years and $2.65 million to improve its quality. As of mid February, the Spiro Water Treatment Plant has been running, filtering some of the impurities out of the thousands of gallons per minute that rush out of the side of the mountain through the Spiro Mine Tunnel, located just above Park City Golf Course. Of the more than eight million gallons produced by various area wells, roughly 17 percent of that water receives filtration through the plant By running the water from the Wit' jA I X Lisa, Jerry and Jay step out and slip off into the night. Skiing continues for yet another week at the Park City Ski Area. chapter of the Sierra Club, said she began testifying in hearings on the dam as early as 1972. Her objections centered around what she and other Sierra Club members felt were inadequacies in the bureau's environmental impact study on the project Today, 21 years later, she remains unsatisfied. "I still don't think it was a good site," she said. Hayes said she doubts the geologic "It's kind of like building an office building and being able to move in, but still having.. .work to do on the trim' Wirth said. stability of the dam site. The bureau has long maintained that despite geologic faults in the area, the dam will be capable of withstanding a large earthquake. Wirth said the filling of Jordanelle represents the end of an era for the bureau. "In terms of Bureau of Reclamation dams," he said, "Jordanelle will be the last of it's kind to be built for many years to come." The reason, he said, is that few damable river valleys remain undamed. Now, instead of focusing on has new portals through a series of color-coded color-coded pipes and filters, Public Works is not only ensuring adequate water, but safe water as well. One of the more serious inorganic elements currently being filtered out of the Spiro water is naturally occurring arsenic. (Spiro Tunnel was originally mined for metals, particularly silver and lead. Production stopped when the miners hit water, and lots of it. However, along with the water and the lead and the silver, comes the arsenic.) Arsenic is a heavy metal that is extremely toxic in large quantities, but is harmful, some research suggests, even at levels lower than 50 parts per billion (0.05 mg1), the standard currently allowed governmental water quality standards. The concentration of arsenic in Spiro water without the use of filtration tests around 60 or 70 parts continued on A2 by David Bertinelli new construction, Wirth said the bureau will turn its attention toward improving the efficiency of already existing projects. "The water development period has been a successful period," he said, now the bureau will focus on water management. Water management issues .include whether water from a given dam is being utilized efficiently and whether the dam is safe. Construction of the 300 foot tall Jordanelle dam began on June 27, 1987. The dam itself was completed Oct. 19, more than a year ahead of schedule. The reservoir will take at least four to five years to fill completely. Once filled, it will provide annually over 100,000 acre-feet of drinking and irrigation water to users along the Wasatch Front. The reservoir will will hold twice as much water as is stored behind Deer Creek Dam. While Jordanelle has a projected life span of 100 years, Wirth predicted "it will be there for a long, long time to come." As an example, Wirth cited Glen Canyon Dam. That dam, he said, had an original life span projection of 100 years but recent studies suggest it could function for nearly 1000 years. The factor that most often limits the lifespan of a dam is silt. When water backs up behind a dam, particles fallout of the water and pile up on a reservoir's floor. Eventually, silt and mud will replace water. water filtration plant on line it f -1 i Just some of City contemplates swap for Egyptian by AMBER McKEE Record staff writer Park City Municipal Corporation has had preliminary talks with the Resolution Trust Company (RTC) recently about acquiring the Egyptian Theatre, a spokesperson for the company said Tuesday, April 13. "We sat down and talked briefly," said Tom Morton, an agent from Coopers and Lybrand of Denver, which is handling the transaction for the RTC. "I happened to be in town to do other work. We did talk about the theater and a number of vacant lots." City Council Member Bob Richer confirmed discussion had Planners forward Mountain Meadows by CHRIS EISENBERG Record staff writer The Summit County Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend the county settle out of court with the developer of a proposed 600-acre, 604-unit Snyderville Basin housing project The commission's recommendation is part of a continuing effort to avoid a costly court battle between Summit County and the project's developers. The project, Mountain Meadows, is the work of Allan Metos and Jim Lewis of Pitchfork Development, Inc. In November, Pitchfork announced its intention to file a $52 million lawsuit against the county. In their notice of claim, Park City live at Symphony Hall Cheech Marin will introduce the evening, and The Sons of the San Joaquin will croon tunes. But the real stars will be the music students of the Park City School District, when "Park City takes over Symphony Hall" on May 26. The special event evening which will be co-chaired by Gary and Jana Cole will be the kick-off event for a major private fund-raising effort to help the school district create a fine arts center. Three years ago the school district bonded for a number of improvements, including building a fine arts auditorium. This January the board agreed to commit the $1.5 million of the bond money to start on the project But a group of private citizens concerned about the arts formed and agreed to help raise an additional $2.5 million to make the facility something that would not only meet the needs of students today, but anticipate the needs for the next five years. Dr. Mike Andrews said the $1.5 million was originally for a 350 seat auditorium and an expanded drama storage area. The community-sponsored plan would see 1,200 seats built with additional classroom space for the band and drama departments. The size of the stage and the fly space (air space above the stage) would be expanded as well to meet the needs of visiting artists such as Ballet West and the Utah Symphony who, according to Ann MacQuoid, one of the co-chairs of the fund-raising effort, have both continued on A3 .. .. mim Wrrn r" ifir t- the folks concerned with Park taken place between the city and the RTC. The RTC acquired several pieces of Old Town property from the failed Utah-based American Savings and Loan, including the Egyptian Theatre, the Main Street Mall, several residential parcels as well as an empty lot beside the Egyptian, and one behind the Barking Frog in Swede Alley which are currently used for parking. Probably the most infamous of RTC real estate, however, is the 52-acre Snow Creek parcel which is currently proposed for a 90,000 square foot commercial development. According to RTC Public continued on A2 Metos and Lewis alleged their project had been unduly delayed and devalued by the county's six-month six-month effort to adopt new, stricter development codes. Those codes were adopted January 14. The dispute between the two parties has centered on which development code should be used to review the project. Mountain Meadows developers claim their project should be considered under the old code while Summit County has maintained it should be considered under the new one. By trying to negotiate a settlement to the dispute, both sides are hoping to save money and win concessions from the other. The commission voted to recommend the Board of County continued on A2 . "i .. .. ' '" 7 ... . 2 '- r 1 , - v V 1 sw by Amber McKee City's culinary water. s & W.1 VK f)Wv. v I ride Classifieds C7 Crossword C6 Editorial AU i I Education AW Vi Sports CI 11 summit A1 3 Television C5 When & Where B2 i. 1 12 Columns A1 2 r i Marketplace C4 pooRleilY |
