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Show WedThursFri, February 4-6, 2004 The Park Record a-: COUNTY SEAT COUNTY EDITOR: Patrick Parkinson 649-9014 ext. 1 12 countynewsparkrecord.com Funds needed to save creek Tg&e. &.i&f!8!& I PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO A Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officer examines a fish left stranded on the bed of East Canyon Creek last August when portions of the creek dried out between Kimball Junction and Jeremy Ranch. A group is raising money to study stream flow and options for leaving water in the creek. Snydcrvilie Basin water compa- Morgan County. By increasing the By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff ' A committee tasked with saving East Canyon Creek is trying to raise $25,000 to conduct a study and determine how best a permanent perma-nent stream flow could be preserved. pre-served. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will pay $75,000 to study the creek if a $50,000 match is made locally. ; Mike Lucrs, general manager of the Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District, says the district dis-trict will pay $25,000 if other entities enti-ties provide the balance. "The $125,000 will be spent to conduct a study and identifying how the stream can be augmented in perpetuity." Luers said, adding that with $25,000 pledged by the reclamation district, members of the community need $25,000 in cash or in-kind services. : 'llie yatcr reclamation district Would administer the grant, ' he added. " 1 " "We're not going to sign a contract con-tract with the state to administer the grant until which time we have received commitments." Luers said, about the matching funds. nies will oe asKea to contnnute money to the grant, he adds. "We believe we can come up with the money." Luers said. "We will ask all the major water providers and then other interested interest-ed stakeholders." First, Luers said the EPA would conduct a historical analysis of East Canyon Creek, 'lliis would include an examination of stream flows, water right diversions and the impact drought has had on the creek. "There's twice as many water rights as there is actual wet water up here," Luers said. "There's a lot of paper water." EPA officials would then identify identi-fy options to provide a permanent stream flow in the creek and the costs involved. "What we're really talking about is the critical summer periods peri-ods of the year," Luers said. y At one point last August,' portions por-tions of the creek drained completely. com-pletely. Three pipelines to import water into the Snyderville Basin have recently been discussed from near" Rockport Reservoir in Wanship and East Canyon Reservoir in size of these pipes, Lucrs said extra water could remain in East Canyon Creek. Another option involves purchasing pur-chasing water rights in the creek, he added. '"That's the purpose of the study, to identify not only what the options are, but the potential costs," Luers said. Crops may even be purchased along the stream, which could lessen the demand for irrigation water on the creek, he said. "We could sit and talk all day about the various options," Luers said. If funded, the study would be completed in 2004, he said. For now, Luers said the East Canyon Water Quality Steering Committee is also considering short-term solutions for the creek. These must involve agreements between different entities to conserve con-serve during difficult times in die summer, he added., , "One approach would be that the folks that hold the oldest water rights, as an example, would say, 'hey. if someone upstream doesn't use their water we're going to let it go past us too,'" Luers said. COUNTY WATCH Public hearing to discuss East Side code A public hearing is scheduled Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Kamas City Offices - 170 N. Main - to discuss proposed amendments to the Eastern Summit County Development Code. The Eastern Summit County . Planning Commission will discuss the future of major subdivisions, minor subdivisions sub-divisions and development along the East Side's highway corridor and the public will have a chance to comment. The planning commission com-mission could also make recommendations recom-mendations on a zoning map and amendments to allowed and conditional con-ditional uses on the East Side Projects proposed in Kamas Ranger District Here is a list of projects proposed pro-posed in 2004 in the Kamas Ranger District of the Wasatch-Cache Wasatch-Cache National Forest, that U.S. Forest Service officials are seeking feedback on: A barbed wire fence - almost one-mile long - is proposed near the base of Soapstone Mountain. It would connect to a fence on private pri-vate land and would be near the North Fork of the Provo River. The purpose of the fence would be to keep cattle on Soapstone .Mountain that are scheduled to graze. Rangers say vandals caused . about $5,000 worth of damage in the Cedar Hollow area of the forest for-est in 2003. They have proposed building a gate, which would be closed between March 1 and June 15 to discourage vandals, but would still allow recreationists access to the area. ; Forest service officials have identified about 300 trees that have been destroyed by spruce beetles and need to be removed from Camp Steiner a Boy Scouts of America camp in the district. dis-trict. ' 'Rangers would like to restore more Ponderosa pines in the for est by thinning out some areas and conducting a controlled burn. A 1,200-acre controlled burn is planned in the Cedar Hollow area - the second prescribed fire the forest service has conducted there. Contact Kamas District Ranger Tim Garcia at (435) 783-4338 for more information or to submit feedback. The deadline to submit comments is Feb. 17. Agreement to monitor grazing conditions In an attempt to stabilize grazing graz-ing on public lands throughout the West, last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Public Lands Council - an organization organi-zation affiliated with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association agreed to a cooperative approach for monitoring rangeland conditions. condi-tions. 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