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"The picture for American Skiing Company is not as bright as it was in 1997," said Canyons General Manager Blaise Carrig, "but we've stayed committed." com-mitted." Carrig's statement came during dur-ing a review of The Canyons' Special Planned Area before the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission. The general message mes-sage from Carrig and other Canyons representatives to commissioners was that though the resort is not as developed as they believed it would be, it has made significant improvements Water district facility plans draw resident scrutiny by Tim Sullivan OF THE RECORD STAFF Several residents of the Spring Creek area appeared Tuesday to caution Snyderville Planning Commissioners against a hasty recommendation of a water treatment treat-ment plant near their neighborhood. neighbor-hood. Mountain Regional Water Special Service District is now requesting that their water treatment treat-ment plant be above ground instead of below due to cost concerns, con-cerns, said the district's Cliff Blonquist. The planning commission gave a positive recommendation to the underground version of the treatment treat-ment plant about a year ago. Since then, said Blonquist, the district has downsized the facility and created a barn-like design for MACC provides link to all Oly emergencies Continued from A-5 receive the most calls relating to EMS. "When the sun goes down and it gets icy, you're going to see a lot of calls from places like Main Street,'' says Rudd, also citing the altitude as a cause of pjjg&Tems Classic French Onion Soup Five Garden Vegetable Soup with Basi Five Wilted Spinach, Shrimp, Mushrooms, Roasted Peppers & Apple Smoked Bacon Eight Green Lentil Salad with free-range Chicken Breast Nine Nifoise Tuna Salad on Grilled French Bread Ten Seasonal Baby Greens Five Smoked Salmon & Leek Tart Tu!ve Prawns & Scallops sautied with Garlic, Wine and Lemon Fourteen Breast of Duckling with Armagnac & Cherries Thirteen HfcftmrfisX aft Qtyfwre Peppered Filet of Beef, sauce Chasseur Fifteen Alsatian Pork Tenderloin Tart with Riesling & Shallots Eleven Stuffed Veal Loin with fresh Tarragon & crisp Shallots Fifteen 710 Lower Main Street Plata 940-1909 from the ski area's ParkWest and Wolf Mountain days. "We're not as vibrant as we thought we'd be by this point," said Carrig. "but it r c Kottor than frnr II years ago." We Carrig explained that with 16 lifts and 3,500 acres of ski-able ski-able terrain, The Canyons has become the fifth largest resort in the country. It has mvGslSU JJJ million in capital improvements improve-ments and has seen a 300- percent per-cent skier day increase during its tenure on the mountain. Carrig said The Canyons has worked toward becoming a four-season resort. It now has 512 rentable rooms in the Grand Summit Hotel and Sundial Lodge. It is planning and grading a golf course. its above ground portion. Mountain Regional will use the plant to treat water from Spring Creek and two wells whose groundwater is under the influence of surface water. Blonquist said the district will transport the water to western Basin subdivisions like Summit Park whose own water systems are struggling. But residents of the nearby Spring Creek subdivision north of Interstate 80 criticized a multitude multi-tude of aspects of the facility's plans. Resident Mary Perry pointed out that the treatment plant would be nearby a popular public trail in the Glenwild area. "That trail is used by hundreds of people peo-ple on the weekend," said Perry, adding that Mountain Regional's building should be quiet, safe and for visitors. But Summit County appears ready. It beefed up its ambulance crew from 16 people to 100 for the Olympics. "They've staffed up for that Xvery well," Rudd says. The" Olympics "afe 'the best "time "for something to happen." 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Growth of the Canyons Resort Village Association, he said, is driven by real estate sales. Carrig also credits the slow growth to similar trends in the broader ski industry. "We thought the children of the baby boom would be a not visually intrusive. Perry also expressed concern about the purity of Spring Creek. She questioned the district's plan for storing chlorine used to treat the water, and said she hoped the plant wouldn't discharge any sediment sed-iment into the creek. "Each year we go and try to clean out the stream," said Perry. "We're trying to make it a nice place to live." Neighbor Bruce Hamilton said he wanted Mountain Regional to hide the treatment plant as much as possible. "We would prefer something that is of minimal visual impact," said Hamilton. A representative from Summit Water Distribution Company, another large water supplier in the Basin, also cautioned commissioners com-missioners against moving ahead However, February may be the worst time for accidents to occur on the stretch of Intestate 80 that runs through ''the Snyderville Basin. Rudd says he's most afraid of wrecks involving involv-ing the trucks hauling hazardous material "on the freeway each -day. ' "Park City's Premier Mortgage Lender Since 1983" First Western Mortgage First Western Mortgage Building 1245 Deer Valley Drive Park City, UT 84060 435-649-9556 6.75 625 6.988 APR 6.471 APR As of 1801 4 Saturday, January 12, 2002 huge salvation for our sport," he said. But tnere is incredible incredi-ble competition for that market. mar-ket. ..The critical mass for the village to be totally vibrant not there yet." American Skiing Company, based in Maine, is also going through hard times right noW. It has put one of its resorts,1 Steamboat, up for sale and itlsl stock shares have plummeted to under a dollar. Planning commissioners' meanwhile, commended Thej Canyons not on its action' within the SPA but in th'e; greater community. Commissioners said they especially espe-cially appreciated the resort's efforts to secure open spaed and provide a public transit system for the Basin. "I think you have emerged as one of the leaders," saioj Commissioner Debi Scoggan.; Commissioners said they wanted a review of .The Canyons to be an annual event. too quickly. Summit Water attorney John Flitton said Mountain Regional should have to apply for a more rigorous conditional use permit instead of the low impact permit at issue Tuesday. He pointed out that Summit Water had to apply for a conditional condi-tional use permit when the county coun-ty approved its water treatment plant on East Canyon Creek. "The low impact is not the proper permit," Flitton said. "It's a major utility." Flitton added that Summit Water has litigation pending against Mountain Regional over the influence of its wells on theirs. "I'd hate to see this rushed through," Flitton said. Commissioners said they wanted want-ed Mountain Regional to explore putting the facility underground. "Our biggest threat is that highway," Rudd says. ; Whatever the incident, when it comes to doling out resources, agencies look to the computer screens in front of them. Each computer, as well as a 'large screen at the front, of thfi room, is hooked into "E-team, an Internet program with information infor-mation about public safety or health-related incidents in aQ venue communities. "At any given time," Summit County Sheriff's Lieutenant Joe Offret says, "anyone doing thifc business can check E-team and find out what's going on anj where else." j Those at communications centers along the Wasatch From or Back can check incident responses, needs and each cenj ter can add its own comments regarding the allocation or availability of resources. "E-team is great for multii jurisdictions," says Rudd. While all agencies in thi MACC have a common link t$ other emergency operation centers, they each bring theif own list of resources and ways of contacting those personnel, j Rudd explains that the MACC will be simply the sum of its working parts, whicn comes as a surprise to many officials entering a technology-filled technology-filled emergency operations center for the first time. "Most people who come to an EOC expect it to managi itself," Rudd says. "But each" department has to bring its own information." Enough incidents have been? simulated today to last public" safety officials several Olympics. But it is Rudd's hope the MACC will be much, much qui-' eter than it is today. "I hope nothing happens," he 7, |