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Show The Park Record A-3 COUNTY SEA COUNTY EDITOR: Patrick Parkinson 649-9014 ext 1 12 (&d)&sd& countynewsparkrecord.com WedThursFri, October 9-1 1 , 2002 County Special improvement district addresses water infrastructure in Promontory By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff lAs pari of the legal founda-tidn founda-tidn for continued development of Promontory, laying the necessary neces-sary groundwork to proceed with development of the subdivision in the hills overlooking Quinn's Junction, the Summit-County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution establishing establish-ing a special improvement district dis-trict within county-run Mountain Regional Water Special Service District as the entity responsible for water needs in the subdivision. subdivi-sion. ; When completed Promontory could consist con-sist of 1,600 units and fiVe golf courses. About 75 percent of the units process are zoned as secondary still Under review" -rmnc ' i C o u n t y Commissioner Eric Schiffcrli said adopting the notice of intent last week was the next step in: development of Promontory. The first part of the resolution declares Mountain Regional's intentions to pump culinary and irrigation water from wells it plans to drill in the Kamas Valley near Peoa. ', "The wells would be drilled ;ird tied in by the construction of a transportation pipeline to a pump station. The pump station would then pump the water to a nejw Promontory irrigation pond nixt to the existing Three Mile Awareness Lost hunter in Uintas last weekend has officials touting awareness and safety on eve of hunt By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff ; With hunters alread's'cliilnn the hiouhtatris of Summit County, seeking their botfrrty, and deer hunters in Utah waiting iffthe wings, gun safety right now is paramount. "The hills are full of camp-fires," camp-fires," said Coalville resident Billy Stokes, commander of the Summit County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team. Last Sunday night, between 9 and 10 p.m. Stokes received a call from dispatch reporting a lost huiiter in the Uintas, near the Wyoming slate-line.- "It all came down at once," Stokes said. The man was elk hunting with his party earlier in the day when he got lost. Stokes said. "He just got separated, he wasn't paying attention," Stokes added. With help from a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter, volunteers vol-unteers flew over the area and before 1 a.m. had located the man in good condition, Stokes said. The hunters were near the Suicide Park area of Summit County's portion of the Wasatch-Cache Wasatch-Cache National Forest when the man was reported missing. When located, rescuers transported him to Gilbert Meadows, Stokes said. 'With better-than-normal hunting hunt-ing conditions, Steve Cranney, big game coordinator for the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources said 70,000 hunters are expected to participate in this year's deer hunt in the state. Make(VVish 1 Wil l , I For Information or If you would like to donate i an Auction item tMI SOI-277-U.73 v,, ,,.,((, i 0 moves forward water culinary tank," reads the resolution, about Mountain Regional's plans for providing Promontory's irrigation water. But with the decision still pending on a water rights exchange application Mountain Regional presently has before the Utah State Engineer, these, along with similar plans Mountain Regional has for delivering deliv-ering culinary water to Promontory, might prove moot. According to Summit County's notice of intent, the company plans to send culinary water for the new subdivision from aquifers in the Kamas We're still working through 3 J The county's application is with the office of the - Jerry Olds Utah State Engineer Valley with the help of, " ... the acquisition, construction, drilling and installation of a culinary water well to be located in the Town of Peoa, just above the Peoa cemetery or such other location as the Special Service District may determine to be equally desirable." Prior to a public hearing last month with representatives from the state engineer's office, 39 protests were submitted to the state from people all over Utah, key to safe which starts Oct. 19. "The rain that fell in . September has really helped hunting' conditions," Cranney f( said; "It may Stfll be drier than ' hunters are used to, but it won't be as dry as last year. The wetter conditions will make it easier for hunters to move around quietly, which will help them as they stalk animals." Lt. Joe Offret, of the Summit County Sheriff's Office, said a little lit-tle attention to safety goes a long way on a hunting trip. Of course, a meeting before the trip with members of the hunting party to discuss different safety measures is helpful. And perhaps Children Seatbelts were not worn during accident By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Clay Morgan responded to a single-car single-car accident Sunday afternoon in which four children from Oakley, between the ages of 4 and 13, were ejected from a truck near Henefer. It appeared all the victims would recover from injuries sustained in the accident, Morgan said. Troopers say no one in the truck was wearing a seatbelt. Christopher Maisey, 18, was driving a pickup truck, eastbound on Interstate 84 when the accident occurred.. Near milepost 18 in (Cicac r-r X7 -rf2: y vs&trj&j, October 2. 2002 '-y Please join us for an tin forgettable gctmeaif experience rts nv celebrate seventeen years of granting wishes HtnLitli tttnnitvtl m.iiii.mi rr.tntntn "nr,l a:, ah.w" fnr I IfyiJt r-ii.lMr.t.t .)...-... ,,,,,, wiiiiiii yim iwiifi.i fvi limn I (Klin i if criticizing Mountain Regional's request to drill the wells. The relatively rel-atively unknown geology of the Kamas Valley has residents throughout the valley concerned that Summit County's plans to drill the wells will affect the intricate system of springs that residents in the valley have used for almost 150 years. Though commissioners and Mountain Regional officials are confident the water rights exchange request would riot affect aquifers south of the wells, which would be drilled near Rockport Reservoir in Peoa, the final decision on the application, rests with State Engineer Jerry Olds. Once again, those opposed to the establishment of Promontory's special improvement district by the the tcouny tcrm1" must nrotest the move summit county cierK oy Nov. 6 at 5 p.m. According to the resolu- tion, total costs for operation opera-tion of the special improvement district is roughly $19,350,000. The district will pay approxi mately $1,892,500 and the remainder will be assessed upon property owners in Promontory. For the irrigation and culinary water improvements, $5,455 in property tax will be assessed upon each resort unit and $10,910 per residential unit. In its application to the state engineer. Mountain Regional requests the right to drill up to 13 wells to satisfy Promontory, but Jim Carbine, Mountain Please see Protests, A-4 hunting most importantly, Offret said, if a member in the group is not behaving behav-ing safely, it is up to other hunters to put pressure on that person. While protecting others by paying pay-ing attention and handling firearms safely, a person;also must be physically, ready tor a hunt, Stokes said, adding thai if a hunter becomes separated from the party, don't panic. If lost, Lenny Rees, hunter education coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said sit down, relax and build a fire, even if it is not cold. "A fire is soothing and will help you relax," he said. When lost in an unfamiliar area, Rees said stay put. But sometimes, when acting calmly, a person can think their way out of the situation. ejected Henefer, troopers say Maisey fell asleep at the wheel. After swerving toward the median, he overcorrect-ed overcorrect-ed and the truck rolled one time off the right side of the road. The three youngest children, Austin, 10, Thomas, 6, and four-year-old Melissa Maisey, were flown to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. 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