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Show . i . i J A. . Emery County Thursday August Volumn 75 A (. mvr BtiU Jlf CiStU COUMTM Number 1, 1974 31 Pre - school clinic children KINDERGARTEN ol physicals years, 5yrs,6yrs. and DPT. Polio, Measles, Boosters, The Doctor will be present. Aug. 6,1974, 9 a.m. HEAD-STAR- T, 4 ot This lake near the top of Huntingron creek supplies water for Utah Power & Lights Huntington generating 30,000-acre-to- station. The lake will offer recreational opportunities. The tower in the center of the picture discharges water to Huntington Pre-scho- to 2 p.m, , Emery County High school, ol North entrance. children only, Pre-scho- 430000 kilowatts added as Plant begins operation The $129 million initial unit of Utah Power & Light Co.s Huntington plant that began commercial operation in July adds an additional 430,000 kilowatts to the companys generating capability to meet the increasing demand for electricity. Just so that one may grasp the impact of 430,000 kilowatts thats enough electricity to supply two cities the size of Ogden, Utah, or two heavy industrial loads like Kennecott coppers Utah operation. with the addition of the Huntington unit, the utilitys generating capability totals 1,795,000 kilowatts an increase of 124 percent over that of ten years ago. Commercial operation of the unit came some two months after the first fires were lighted in the 231 foot high boilerforsteam system tests. You dont just press a button and expect $129 million worth of technical equipment to start right off the bat, says Gordon Newbold, plant superintentent There are, for instance, 190 control systems which have to De thoroughly checked before the unit is even rolled. Mr. Newbolds check up list of systems included the following examples ; fire protection systems, raw river water treatment system for use in cooling and boiler makeup water; pump and fan bearing cooling system; cooling tower system, including pumps, piping, fans and motors; coal receiving and conveyor facilities from storage to plant; boiler bottom and fly ash from the electrostatic precipitator; ignition system that lights the main boiler burners; automatic data gathering equipment that checks on more than 500 critical pieces of plant equipment and the computer that uses to make mathematical calculations necessIt takes hard ary for plant operation. work and patience, sometimes pushing people to get a plant into operation. ActuaHy, testing some of the systems began one year ago while construction was at its height, Mr. Newbold said. Cleaning of 120 miles of water and steam tubing ( imagine what a bolt or some other foreigh material would do to turbine blades traveling at 3,600 revolutions per minute) was completed before the first "roll of the turbine on May 18. Huntington Plant is located northwest of the community of Huntington and 28 miles from price. The plant site was selected because of the availability of two essential ingredients; coal and water. The coal that fuels the UP&L unit is very desirable for burning in a power plant having low sulphur content ( 0.5 percent(, relatively low in ash content and high in Btu content. The mine supplying coal to the plant is underground and located in Deer Creek Canyon approximately two miles from the plant site. The coal is transported via a covered conveyor to a coal pile, the active portion of which is covered with a roof to control dust. Water sprays are used at all transfer points, also part of dust control, and the coal pile and conveyor are hidden from the road passing the plant. The coal is supplied by Peabody coal Co. The plant first unit will require 1.2 million tons of coal during normal operation. turbine-generat- or Water is supplied from the Huntington Creek and from Cottonwood creek by water rights exchange. To provide water in dry years, unused water is stored in Electric Lake, formed by a UP&L dam 18 miles upstream from the plant. In addition to supplying makeup and service water for the plant, the $9 million dam will ultimately back up a 30,000 acre foot lake offering recreational facilities to residents and visitors to the area. Company officials emphasized that no major step was taken in the design and construction of the Huntington Plant with out considering environmental impact. Company officials emphasized that no major step was taken in the design and construction of the Huntington Plant with out considering environmental impact. The initial unit incorporates an electrostatic precipitator designed to remove 99.5 percent of the particulates. Hunting-to- n Plant will utilize cooling towers, thus avoiding the return of any heated water to the stream, but rather utilized on the site or evaporated from poonds. The company further explained that ash is taken from the plant to a remote draw and covered with earth. The draw is diked to prevent leaching from the ash to the surrounding area. Company officials explained that four major studies have been conducted by independent scientists and engineers and the evaluation of the effect of the plant operation on all aspects of the area will be continued. The studies include; that A University of Utah program considers the effect of plant operation on existing vegetation and animal life. A BYU study that considers the effect of plant operation and aquatic organisms in the surrounding area. A North American Weather Consultant study conducting a meteorological data collection program. The Division of Wildlife Resources of Utah study carrying out a research project concerning the physiological effects to deer and small mammals in the area. After four years of engineering and planning, actual construction on Huntington initial unit began in March 1971. During peak construction, employment at the site needed to run the initial unit if 44 men. The plant rests on a concrete, steel reinforced pad ranging in thickness from 4 to 27 feet. The mat contains 16,250 cubic yards of concrete and is laced throughout with 945 tons of reinforcing steel. Other miscellaneous facts; the turbine which supports the turbine pedestal generator and is a separate structure apart from the rest of the building to eliminate any deflection or vibration contains 3,030 cubic yards of concrete and 330 tons of reinforcing steel. The plants stack foundation contains 390 tons of reinforcing steel and 4,290 cubic yards of concrete. The stack itself is comprised of two elements apart from one another, one structure is brick and contains 800, 000 bricks and the other is a concrete structure containing 3.424 cubic yards of concrete and approximately 150 tons of reinforcing steel. UP&L envisions the plant to eventually have four units, each unit in the 400,000 kilowatt class. The company has already announced plans to construct the second unit for completion in 1977. Power from Huntington will be delivered to UP&L load centers by connecting the Huntington Plant to the companys a highest voltage transmission line, 345,000 volt transmission line stretching 368 miles from near salt Lake City to an interconnection with neighboring utilities near the New Mexico border. The plant has, and will continue to provide important economic benefits to the area, m addition to payrolls and local purchases, the plants first unit alone doubles the current Proterty assessed valuation in Emery County. Seated left to rigid; Pauline Cox, Mayor Darwin Larsen, Gale Dugmore. Contract let for Ferron plant DR. JAY A. MONSON Workshop to be held Utah state University southeastern Utah Center for Continuing Education will sponsor a creative Education workshop to be held in Castle Dale, Aug. 12th on through the 16th. The workshop will be held at Emery County Highschool and is and open to all teachers and interested persons. Director of the workshop will be Dr. Jay A.Monson. Dr. Monson was named last year as the Professor of the Year at Utah state University. He is an Associate professor of Education at the Logan school and has taught classes previously in the Carbon-Eme- ry pre-serv- ice area. professor Monson has taught elementary school in Granite school District and Scottsdale, Arizona, plus having served as an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at New York University. He states that the major purpose of the work shop willbeupon practical ideas for setting conditions for creativity in both svhool and home environment. Included in the topics to be discussed will be; Releasing Creative Potential Creative Discipline Creativity in the curriculum Areas. The workshop course will carry three quarter hours of credit which will count towards teacher certification and recertification for both elementary & secondary teachers. Registration will be at Emery County High school, at 8;30 a.m. August 12th. The sessions will run from 8;30-3;daily. Interested persons should reserve a place in the workshop by contacting Mrs. Roma Powell, Huntington, Utah, or Kay Hancock at the southeastern Center for continuing Education Office. 30 Well baby clinic Emery county High school, at the North entrance, Aug. 5, 1974, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. DPT., Polio, Measles, and Series and Boosters, Children 6 weeks to 4 years, Guy & Justine take over Hunter Drug July a young native Emery couple 1 became the owners and operators of an established county business. One month and much wiser later Guy and Justine Conover are doing well and expanding on all fronts ( not intended as a pun.) Guy is learning to run the fountain on occasion. Justine is an experienced Although fountain clerk, they never did teach me how to make a malt in pharmacy school, says Guy. Ordering and stocking the county drug store, explaining gently to customers the rising cost of drugs inflating their costs, checking under the trapdoor, filling the prescriptions and preserving the cleanliness and relaxed homey atmosphere of the store are listed among the challenges. The Lorin Hunters are giving invaluable assistance. The initial unit of Utah Power & Light Co.'s Huntington plant has begun commer cial operation and will produce 430,000 kilowatts in time for the utility's summer peak loads. Standing left to right; Dennis Winter, Eric Easley, Duane Frandsen and George Conover. Eventually the place will be called Conover's pharmacy. Just now the would Involve too much changeover expense. In keeping with the patient orlnetated advances in pharmacy, Guy plans to set up a patient profile system wherein is continued on page 6 Construction is expected to begin immediately on a sewage disposal plant for Ferron, following the recent signing of a $245,324 contract with Western States Paving, Inc, Alpine. Total cost of the three-lagoplant include land acquisition, engineering and other costs will be $344,000. Work is to be completed in 120 days. Location of the plant will be on the Ferron Creek .just east of the slaughter house. Town Board president Darwin Larsen said Ferron has been dumping raw sewage into the Creek. Ferron, along with other Emery county towns, has been given until December to stop the practice. ' He said Ferron Mil be the first town in Emery County to get a sewage disposal plant. He said the plant, to be located on 23 acres, will be designed to handle the on ' anticipated growth of the area resulting from power plant construction and coal mine development. Financing will come from $125,000 worth of revenue bonds sold to the Farm and Home Administration, from a $165, 000 grant from the Environmental protection Agency, a $22,500 grant from the Four Comers Regional Commission and also $16,800 from the town. The town obtained the $16,800 fund by charging property owners to hook up to the sewer. The revenue bonds sold the FHA will be paid from the revenue from the sewer system within 40 years. The .construction contract is for the treatment plant and outfall lines. The Town Board president said the collection system needs to be enlarged but this will be done later. Board to hold tour G-- 10 On Wednesday August 7, 1974, the Mantl Division Advlsoiy Board will hold a tour for board members and others that might be interested, according to G-- 10 Don Barton, president. This year the tour will center on the and impact of mining, electric power, recreation and roads on the Mantl-Las- al National Forest, The one day tour will begin at 10;00 a.m. from the Wllberg Mine turnoff about 6 miles west of Orangeville on the road to Joes Valley. It will continue onto Huntington Canyon and end at the snowland Ski Lodge at Falrveiw Canyon. The public is invited on the tour, but must be prepared to furnish their own food. A short business meeting will be held at lunch, several items of interest to the board will be discussed. Further information on the tour and arrangements for food may be made by contacting Ralph Cook of Fountain Green. Is Zoning Necessary By Eric Easley springs, Wyo., Bechtol Corp., the prime contractor on the Jim Bridger power plant, has built a barracks complex for 600 men, which consists of double wide mobile homes placed end to end. In fact the whole area is innundated with trailers, so much so that the Federal Government has declared the area a housing disaster area. This situation has produced several murders, and prostitutes ply their wares openly. Rough and ready men, separated from their families, have little respect for law and order, and it was reported to us that the lawlessness was beyond the capabilities of the local law enforcement agency to control it. Gerald Stanton and I observed 8 or 10 trailers on the banks of the Green River with no obvious source of water, except from the murky depths of the Green River, and certainly no sewage disposal system. m addition to all of the construction people from around the U.S., the contractors have reportedly imported 300 Canadians, because there is not enough local, qualified men to do the jobs that are there available. They offer a round trip ticket to the Canadians if they come and stay 3 months. m Sweetwater County there is a 40 acre minimum on agricultural land to build a house, instead oflOacres, as found in Emery County. They have just passed a county zoning ordinance, and it and has been difficult to implement administer, but imperative and necessary if they are going to control the population onslaught or blitz. The County planner said that the crime rate has risen tremendously, and the rise is accompanied by sophisticated crime that is new to their experience. They have even found their antelope herds decimated by indescrimate shooting. It is true that people are living in tents, campers and house trailers, or mobile homes of all descriptions. It would stagger the imagination to see the numberous mobile home parks. They are in the middle of nowhere, abutting against housing subdivisions, and anywhere that space permits. A few are quite nice, but most of then are aluminum ghettos. Water and septic tank systems are non exlstant in some areas where we saw mobile homes. We have snapshots to show this. Since their zoning is in its infancy, it is evident that they have exercised little or no control over the use of their land. For example, they have permitted speculators to build high cost housing in the $39,000-$45,0bracket, with $300 a month payments and higher. They have predictions of steady, fairly rapid growth over the next 20 years, but construction workers, as a whole, shy away from such high cost housing. There is a trailer park adjacent to the power plant that I think is disgraceful. We can be proud of the Huntington Power plant but in Wyoming they are not concerned over appearance, solid waste disposal, water and sewer, as I think they should be. They are more concerned over finding space for a proposed 2,000 unit apartment project, which will nearly double Green River, Wyo. population, m 20 years it may be largely vacant, because the power In Rock 00 the plant will be long finished, and construction workers will have moved on to the next construction project, maybe in Emery County. We visited the Sweetwater County tax assessor, and he informs us that on account of the hi$i wages paid by the power plant, coal mines and chemical plants, he can find very few qualified people to work in his office. Their growth in assessed valuation alone was $38,000,000 last year, but he has two field deputys, that garner information on property, which is then appraised by the state tax commission. License tags and personal property tax is handled by the County Treasurers Nevertheless, the work load is such that he has all he can do to keep up with land changes, and thlr growth is increasing that burden each year. The Sweetwater county Planner at present is making it too easy for the developers to build subdivisions in the County without requiring them to become annexed to the nearest community, even though they will depend upon services from the adjacent town or city. The inherent danger is from overdevelopment or too rapid development, with too little planning, or regard for the size of kind of development. Contrary to the opinion of many, that our zoning and planning usurps Individual rights, a firm, if not rigid, control is imperative in our county, if we are to avoid the problems that now plague the Sweetwater County, in Wyoming. It is unthinkable that we could exist very long without zoning, not with a population explosion in the offing, and if we are to continue to enjoy the peace and tranquility that has been our hallmark for so many years. Zoning is the only instrument that can insure us an orderly growth. m Sweetwater County, I was further informed that the Bridger Power plant had assured the County that they could have only 900 employees at the peak, and instead they brought in 3500 employees. in Despite the tremendous increase assessed valuation that is directly attributable to the Power Plant, the other problems created by their work force, according to those who know, negates the tax benefits. Increased costs of police protection, fire protection, and other costs to be assumed in a too rapid increase in popul ation, make the benefits to the County and th communities therein, as claimed by the power Company, seem more of a serious problem than a blessing, or a benefit. On the other hand, we must not discourage the possibilities of continued growth by too rigid rules and regulations, but the impact of the Power Company, the Coal Mines, and the construction of a railroad here in Emery County, which is a possibility , in such that it touches every facet of our society. Consequently, support our zoning that we might turn this impact to our advantage, instead of reaping the miseries, horrible problems and that such inpact could disadvantages easily bring, but better yet, it will ultimately be learned that zoning protects individual rights, perhaps more than any other statute. The cost of water is on the increase In Emery County, and this is going here to curtail some development, or use of land, as it has in Sweetwater County, Wyo. There, Pacific Gas and Elecr There, pacific Gas and Electric and Idaho Power own the water, and the cost of water is almost prohibitive. Thus, some desirable development, or use of land is passed up, and Instead develop-men- ts costs are curtailed, or held down at the expanse of the esthetic and permanent use of the land, mother words, mobile home parks in many cases there in Rock springs, and out on the prairie are built on bare ground, making the developer's costs minimal. No black top, no cement, no septic tanks that meet Health Dept, standards, and questionable water. Chemical plants there in Wyoming are polluting the Black Fork River, and they are struggling hard to bring It under the control, but it resulted in the first place from no zoning, or no controls. Industry can bolster the economy, but if not controlled it can create expensive and serious problems for the area it's located in. A central solid waste disposal area is vital, if we are to avoid scarring and raping the land. A blight on our landscapie is Inevitable if corrective measures are not recognized and implemented in time, especially in Boom Town areas, such as Emery County. Consideration must be given to what type of development goes next to another, and this can only be accomplished by a judicious but firm zoning ordinance that will effectively control the uses our land is put to. When I observed the excesses that go unbridaled in areas outside of Utah, I was proud to be a citizen of Utah. I recognized for the first time, because I had only taken it for granted before, the profound influence for good that the LDS Church has on all the people in Utah. They have over the years instilled a moral fibre in our people ttiat is superior to that found in other states. Thus, boom area or no, we are better equipped, because of our heritage , to meet the challenges of the future. Campground fee District Forest Ranger Ira W. Hatch announces that fees will be charged at all Price developed campgrounds on the Ranger District, charges will be $2.00 per camp unit per day, all charge areas will be signed. Money collected from the fees will be used to Improve and manage recreation facilities. Ranger Hatch explained that fee collections for most campgrounds were by eliminated last year in an action Congress, but a new bill, Public Law amended the Land and Water Conservation Fund act to reinstate them. A list of charge areas on the Mantl-Las- al National Forest is available at the Price District Office, 10 North Carbon Ave, price, Utah or by calling Those campgrounds where fees will be charged on the price Ranger District are; Forks of Huntington canyon. Old Folks Flat, Flat canyon and Gooseberry campgrounds. 93-3- 03 637-35- 47. |