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Show p cf, I Endurance 100 logs inaugural race j Off the front, Salt Lake City's Bart Gillespie rq burns the competition. Page B-1 Park CiWmtl TPhe Kimball Art Center presents "Camera Obscura: Modern 1 Prirnitivism," an exhibition of original photographs by Darius Kuzmickas. The exhibition opens July 30 and continues Late afternoon cumulus, possible showers and plenty of sunshine. See B-2 for full forecast. through Sept 27 at the Kimball Art Center. 638 Park Ave. in Park City. For more inftw"- The I J "V Serving Summit County sim 00 PARK CITY, UTAH www.parkrecord.com VOL. 124 NO.49 WedThursFri, July 28-30, 2004 I Floodwaters Werwhelmed5 storm drains City Hall releases its report about last week's deluge By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Repeating many of the government's statements of the last 10 days, City Hall has released a two-page two-page report about the recent flooding detailing the efforts of city crews and describing some measures taken since to prevent another damaging deluge. Kent Cashel, the assistant Public Works director, direc-tor, and Police Chief Lloyd Evans submitted the report to the city's elected officials and City Manager Tom Bakaly early last week and it was released to The Park Record on Monday. The government addressed the report at a meeting meet-ing last Thursday. "Needless to say these rains brought a lot of water down from Deer Valley, Ontario and Empire Canyons. Most of the flooding that occurred was brief and damages were limited to depositions of wood, rock and mud debris on streets, sidewalks, paths and parking lots," the report says. The report generally focuses on the impacts of the flood on public buildings and facilities and only briefly addresses private-property damage. According to the report, City Hall rain gauges measured 1 . 1 inches of rain over about two hours during the evening hours of July 17, a Saturday when persistent rains lasted much of the day. The report states that flow in Poison Creek in Prospector Park before the rains was negligible but water flow peaked at 38 cubic feet per second. That flow, the report indicates, is about five times as fast as East Canyon Creek as it passes Kimball Junction on a typical day. The report lists a number of spots where public facilities suffered damage, including Old Town, where the China Bridge parking structure was struck by water, mud and debris. According to the report, floodwaters "overwhelmed "over-whelmed the drainage system in Sandridge lots and water spilled down the stairs from the parking lots down to the south and west entrances of the China Bridge parking structure." The flood left roughly an inch of debris on the second and third levels of the parking structure, which is located on Swede Alley, the report indicates. indi-cates. No structural damage was reported, though. In the report, the officials say that the Public Works Department will review the design of the drainage system and will identify changes to prevent pre-vent a repeat. The city was forced to shut down its Judge Tunnel water source when it became flooded. The report shows that crews dug a ditch at the tunnel in an effort to channel storm water away. A discharge pipe used to remove Judge Tunnel water from the city's system was carried away in the flooding but the report says that it was repaired. The Judge Tunnel is located in Empire Canyon, south of Old Town, where much of the flooding is believed to have started. The report indicates that Public Works is tracking track-ing the costs of the cleanup and says that the price tag will be reported to City Manager Tom Bakaly when it is totaled. The flooding was some of the worst in Park City's recent history and damage followed Poison Creek from Old Town to Prospector, several miles to the northeast of Old Town. A row of houses along the east side of upper Main Street was especially espe-cially hard hit. The houses sit just off Poison Creek. Other damage listed in the report includes: Poison Creek flooded portions of a bike trail that sits on its banks but the report indicates that minor work is required to repair the damage to the trail. Rocks, gravel and mud were deposited on Royal Street, which is one of two routes between Old Town and Silver Lake Village. Crews in snow- Please see City Hall, A-2 4 SECTIONS 54 PAGES Agendas A-8 Automotive C-20 Business B-7 Classifieds C-16 Columns A-14 Crossword C-4 Editorial A-15 Education A-11 Events Calendar C-2 Letters to the Editor A-15 Legals C-23 Movies C-4 Professional Services B-10 Restaurant Guide B-7 Sports B-1 TV Listings C-13 Weather B-2 PkikRecoid Serving Summit County since 1880 www.parkrecord.com Grab for the gusto '?') ' . - GRAYSON WESTPARK RECORD Dallas King, 9, takes a spin on the Gyro Saturday morning in Kamas City Park during the Kamas Valley Fiesta Days. The week-long event featured activities ranging from a parade to a rodeo to the culminating demolition derby Saturday night. Democratic convention heralded Parkite leads state delegation to Boston, gives rave reviews By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff Donald Dunn heard from his ex-boss on Monday night but it wasn't a typical "How are you doing'.'' exchange. Dunn, the Park City resident who is chairman of the Utah Democratic Party, was in the FleetCenter crowd in Boston to listen to former President Bill Clinton deliver a rousing address to the party faithful at Democratic National Convention. "lie certainly has it still. He gave a terrific speech and had the entire convention hall up on its feet," Dunn said in a telephone tele-phone interview on Tuesday morning. Dunn worked in the Clinton administration from 1993 until 1999, including a stint in the White House. Since returning to Utah from Washington, Dunn has twice unsuccessfully challenged chal-lenged for Congress but his profile within the party has remained high since winning the party chairmanship. Dunn praised several points in Clinton's Monday address, including the ex-president's statements about the national budget budg-et and cuts in federal education funding. Dunn also noted that Clinton criticized the Bush administration's tax cuts even though the ex-president benefited from the cuts. "We had a huge surplus and then we have a big deficit now. That was a major tiling," Dunn said about the speech. Please see Parkite, A-2 Scouts deny responsibility for East Fork blaze Attorneys in $13 million lawsuit disagree about how fire started By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff Thirteen million dollars buys a lot of lemonade and Boy Scouts in Utah have reportedly been seen selling the refreshing drink for $250 a glass. The organization is facing a $13 million lawsuit from the federal government for its alleged role in starting a wildfire in the summer of 2002 that torched more than 14,200 acres on the North Slope in the Uinta Mountains. Overpriced punch is one way to pay up. Five Scouts from Troop 149 in Peoa are among roughly rough-ly 20 boys - between the ages of 1 1 and 14 - blamed by the U.S. Attorney and Utah Attorney General for starting the East Fork Fire during an overnight outing near the East Fork of the Bear Scout Reservation on June 27, 2002. However, in an answer filed July 16 in U.S. District Court, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and its Great Salt Lake Council deny responsibility for starting the fire. The Scouts demand a jury trial. The organization admits the boys participated in the overnight while working on a wilderness survival merit badge but claims that no fires were left by the group to burn out of control. Two 15-year-old camp counselors supervised the trip and the Boy Scouts of America admits fires were started that night in their presence. However, the organization denies that the group lacked proper supervision, water to extinguish the fires and firefighting tools. According to U.S. Attorney Paul Warner, Boy Scout policy requires "two-deep" adult leadership for all Scout activities. "The BSA denies that there was any requirement for mandatory 'two-deep' adult leadership during the wilderness wilder-ness survival merit badge overnight and admits that the Scouts did not provide any adult leadership during that overnight," states an answer filed on behalf of the Boy Scouts by Robert Wallace, an attorney in Salt Lake City. Wallace would not comment Tuesday on the case. He also disagrees with the U.S. Attorney that fire restrictions were in effect at the time in the Wasatch-Cache Wasatch-Cache National Forest that prohibited all campfires outside out-side of designated campgrounds or picnic areas. The Peoa boys allegedly built a fire in "a thick layer of dead and decaying woody debris" that grew into the East Fork blaze. The wildfire was discovered at about 1:30 p.m. on June 28, 2002 and the Scout camp was evacuated. More than 1,000 firefighters spent weeks battling the blaze, which closed that area of the forest for much of the summer. Structures at the Scout camp were destroyed but no homes were damaged. Federal prosecutors say the Scouts failed to extinguish their campfires and point to John White, an employee at the camp, as the adult in charge of supervising the 15-year-old counselors. "We still hope it can be resolved without going to trial," Melodie Rydalch, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney recently told The Park Record, adding that the parties tried to negotiate for almost two years. "The talking talk-ing has pretty much come to a stop." The damages reflect the federal government's costs fighting the fire and rehabilitating land destroyed by the blaze, Rydalch said. "The Boy Scouts is a national corporation, it has insurance for precisely these kinds of things and we would work with them within the bounds of what their insurance would cover," she said. "We're not going to turn the little Cub Scouts upside down and shake the change out of their pockets." In a separate lawsuit, filed in Third District Court in Summit County, the State of Utah is seeking $606,424 from the BSA and Great Salt Lake Council for its costs suppressing the East Fork Fire. "The Great Salt Lake Council has requested a trial by jury to weigh the evidence in the case, and has asked that the state's case be moved to Salt Lake City," reads a statement state-ment from the BSA. "The Boy Scouts did provide ade- Please see Scouts, A-2 The art of aerodynamics V.i, ' - '4 - v - Ms". . V -si I 'Haw. M Jtft mttwr . ... .rfi.Tfls SCOTT SN&PARK RECORD Todd Lodwick soars into first place Saturday for the men's K90 SuperTour competition at the Utah Olympic Park. The Continental Cup featured both men's and women's competition. ! i I i ! I i P.C. area: storm spotters needed Weather Service has only a few people monitoring conditions By JAY HAMBURGER Of the Record staff When the Park City area was slammed with rainstorms rain-storms earlier in the month, the National Weather Service did not have too many people locally to turn to for detailed information about the storms. Turns out, the Weather Service has just one or two weather spotters on the West Side of Summit County, said Brian Mclnerney, a Salt Lake-based Weather Service hydrologist who oversees the agency's storm- spotter program. There are 400 weather spotters spread throughout Utah but just 13 in Summit County, Mclnerney said. Of those, he said, only one or two are located in Park City and the easternmost portions of the Snyderville Basin, where damaging flooding occurred earlier in the month. The rest are in Coalville, Henefer, Oakley and Summit Park. Without the spotters, there was not as much detailed information about the rainfall amounts leading up to the flooding. "The Weather Service would like to know what's going on . . . The best tool we have is a person who can Please see Storm spotters, A-2 49 3 7 00 00 1' |