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Show Fnday, August 20, 1W9, THE DAILY HLR ALD. Provo, Utah LOCAL Hinton takes over as urban horticulturist By JASON PATRICK UTAH COUNTY -- We live in fire country, and property owners in hilly, bench areas are especially vulnerable. Smoke has filled the valley on numerous occasions this summer. We watched fireworks July 5 against a backdrop of haze; last weekend another blaze threatened homes near Saratoga Springs. Lightning struck and started a small fire on the hillside behind Canyon Crest Elementary School on Canyon Road in Provo recently. "The Great Basin is considered a high hazard fire environment. Based on experience, Adrian Hinton taken a position as urban horticulturist with the Utah County office of the Utah State University Extension Service, He will replace Brent Cilcdhill, who retired recently, Hinton comes to Provo from Hurricane, where he occupied a similar position. He is a native of Hurricane, where his family w:is engaged in farming and J'JIOVO bus citrus growing. He attended Dixie College and a received his bachelor's decree in agricultural science Five potential hot spots of danger around your home from the National Fire Protection Agency: Untreated wood shake roof Home located on slope Firewood stored too close to home Inadequate weed clearance Tree limbs overhanging roof this area possesses all the ingredients necessary to support large, intense and uncontrollable wildfires," according to The Great Basin Fire Prevention's "Living with Fire" guide. The program is based at The University of Nevada, "Once you get up there ,you have to start looking for a way through (developments). It can Reno. Some hillside fires pose problems of access for emergency workers. be a very process." said Delbert Jay, a firefighter with the Forest Service's Pleasant Grove Fire Control Center. The character of a fire is partly based on the land it's going over. "As the steepness of slope g ers. One way to help protect yourself is to create a "Defensible Space" around your house. The GBFP recommends the 3 Rs: Removal, Reduction and Replacement. Removal calls for the elimination of dead materials like trees, leaves and shrubs. Pruning dead parts from living plants, removing low tree branches and mowing dried grass constitutes the reduction of fire fuel within a given space. Replacement means substitution of less flammable plants in place of more hazardous vegetation. For example, dense shrubbery is more dangerous in terms of fire fuel than a flower garden, said the GBFS guide to "Living with Fire." well-space- "Defensible Space" is defined differently based on the steepness of a slope. The measurements of "Defensible Space" vary according to the type of vegetation in the area and on what kind of slope the structure sits. To find out more about fires and wildlandurban interface, try these Web sites: Firewise, www.firewise.org; Fire Safe Council, www.firesafecouncil.org; FEMA, www.fema.gov; and Smokey Bear, Lawmakers agree to send CUP audit report to water commission in international institution agriculture. He did graduate work at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and worked for the extension service there. While at Cornell, he worked extensively By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN The Daily Herald SALT LAKE performance audit claims the Central Utah Water Conservancy District has lost the taxpayers' money. The audit was aired again Wednesday, this time before the Joint Legislative Committee on Natural Resources. The committee is chaired by Rep. Brad Johnson, and Sen. Howard Nielson, At the conclusion of the hearing, the committee voted unanimously to refer the audit to the Water Development the grape industry. Hinton said he will conduct diagnostic lab for people with plant problems, will teach an annual Master Gardener class and will carry out other horticultural work primarily in Utah County, although he will serve as an advisor and backup a extension work in Juab, Wasatch, Millard and Sanpete counties. He plans to reorganize the diagnostic laboratory so that customers don't have to wait in line. People are invited to bring their plant problems in on Wednesdays. Hinton and his wife are the parents of seven children, two of whom are still at home, and they have eight grandchildren and three more on the way. i - i that it be lowered. The district has strongly disagreed with those charges, claiming that most of the funds are federal funds, and they have no say in the way the funds must be handled. They also emphasized that the district is responsible for 35 percent of the Central Utah Project's completion costs. Conflicts Coleman told the committee that the district's personnel policies and procedures lacked sufficiency and enforcement. The audit charges that some board members had "the appearance of conflicts of interest" in contracts for which they benefited. She pointed out that the district has already made some changes in financial management, which the audit recommended. Coleman said the Utah Legislature should have a say in how the water is allocated because the district board is focusing primarily on the original ) l i i J Balancing needs Coleman compared the value of agricultural products grown in Juab County with the need for water in Salt Lake County. Nielson said the real comparison should be with the value of water, pointing out that clean, treated culinary water is much more valuable than irrigation water. Chris Finlayson, governmental affairs director for the CUWCD, said the district's response to the audit had covered every issue raised. She also pointed out that the district had repaid $117 million of the federal obligation for building the CUP. She emphasized that the Central Utah Project is a federal water project, and the CUP Completion act outlines the allocation of water. Rep. Mary Carlson, Lake, complained that Salt Lake County is getting shorted on the amount of water from the CUP. She said she didn't like to pay high water bills when cheaper water was available. Don District Manager Christiansen said Salt Lake County gets 65 to 67 percent of lt I-- " the municipal and industrial water, and pays 68 percent of the cost, which is as near a balance as it can be. Christiansen said that in 1990, when the CUP was nearly lost, the district had enough money for only one project. "We could either build the project south, or we could build Jordanelle Dam. The board ago nized over that decision and to build finally decided Jordanelle because they knew Salt Lake County would need the water," he emphasized. Kickin' t with CtURllC (5:30-- 9 if) r ; J plan for the Central Utah Project. Coleman said the auditors could find no written contract or document that promised Strawberry water would go to south Utah and east Juab counties, although district officials said it had been promised for more than 30 years. Sen. Leonard Blackham, said it was part of the original CUP project, which was all irrigation. Selected footwear for men l I fckf ' h Commission for review. Janice T. Coleman, audit supervisor, presented the audit, claiming that the water conservancy district had not invested its reserve funds at the highest interest rate, resulting in a loss for the taxpayers of $7.2 million. She also said the district's tax rate of .0004 was not based on need, and she recommended I y hr CIT- Y- A leg- islative with & M & ijk women FOR MEN AND WOMEN 1561 OXFORD Available in Aztec crazy leather. Women's whole sizes Also available: 1461 OXFORD Available in black greasy leather. 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