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Show ri . i; Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 94, No. 5 Wednesday, January 31, 1996 10 pages Single Copy Price 500 Mona Council places new moratorium on building permits, will stay in effect until they find more water By Marilyn Keyte Times-New- s Correspondent A moratorium on all new construction including residential and commercial structures was set in place by Resolution number by the Mona Town Council in a special session held Monday, January 29th. The moratorium will stay in effect until such time as changed by Resolution of the Mona Town Council. The resolution was set in place as a direct result of a letter received from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water. The letter sent by Russell J. Topham, Environmental Engineer, said, At your request, we have assessed the ability of the Mona Drinking Water System to reliably supply the demands of its existing customers. We have used the reof the quirements of Section R309-10- 6 Utah Administrative Code to perform this analysis. As a result of this analysis we conclude that insufficient water rights exist to meet the demands as specified in the referenced rule. Therefore, no additional connections are to be allowed onto the system until sufficient rights have been acquired. ONE OF THE LAST This home being built in Mona will probably be one of the last homes built until the city finds The assessment took the 232 connecadditional culinary water. The Council imposed a moratorium on all new construction for the forseeable future. tions committed to the system, used the figure of 800 gallons per connection per peak day culinary demand, and averaged 400 gallons per day per connection over a years time. They also took into consideration that 100 of system users use culinary water for irrigation. According to the first assessment of indoor usage of 800 GPD during peak usage, Mona currently has 114 too many water connections. However, using the indoor culinary water usage of 400 GPD averaged over a year, Mona could add 94 new homes. Mayor Kevin Young said Mona has sufficient storage. The town currently has the capacity for 250,000 gallons in a new storage tank and 150,000 gallons in the old storage tank. The capacity is there, said Young. We just dont have the refill rate. The 800 GPD standard seemed excessive to the Council who felt the town was not at a crisis stage yet, but they agreed they wanted to catch it before it did become a crisis. State officials will meet with the Mona Town Council in a closed session February 21st to further discuss Monas situation. Hopefully they will have some guidance and some answers for us, said Continued on page 2 Ash Grave wil increase operations by 25 after plant modifications are made Editors note: The following article ap- in carbon monoxide emissions but the estimate is realistic. peared in the Milliard County gress and is reprinted courtesy of Ware said a more sophisticated burner will be put in the front of the kiln that paper. allowing other materials such as natural gas to be burned. The plant currentBy Derin Phelps ly operates by burning coal. ModificaKen Ware, Environmental Engineer tions will affect the current way of burnof Ash Grove Cement Company near ing used tires. The plant has burned Leamington announced last Tuesday whole tires but when modifications are that the plant plans a 25 percent in- finished will only be able to burn crease in operation. Modifications to chipped tires. Delta Mayor Don Dafoe asked Ware certain equipment to reach the increase will result in a reduction of carbon mon- if plant changes will increase employment. Ware said results of the changes oxide emissions. The announcement was made at the could go either way. There could either January 16 meeting of the Ash Grove be a slight increase in employment or a Community Council in Delta. Ware ex- slight decrease. If there is an increase, plained that at the plants current ca- new employees would be hired to work pacity, it is unable to meet the demand in the quarry department. The plant for cement. Plant modifications are currently operates four days a week with one ten hour shift per day. Ware scheduled to begin this spring. Chronicle-Pro- said that most of Ash Groves products stay in Utah but a few loads go to Farmington, New Mexico and Elko, Nevada. Ware said a Forest Service land trade is underway which will bring Ash Groves operation closer to Leamington. Completion of the land trade deal is expected in about a year and a half. The swap will reportedly give Fishlake National Forest some prime property on Monroe Mountain in exchange for land Ash Grove will receive closer to Leamington. Barbara Nielson of Leamington exemissions. pressed concern about PM-1Ware said the plant uses the best quality bag houses available to remove PM-1Nielson also asked how many mountains will be removed with the increase in operations. Ware said Ash Grove blasts about once every two months on a major shot. Ash Grove Plant Manager G. Duane Crutchfield said it will be at least 50 or 60 years Division of Air Quality, confirmed before people will start to see mountains Wares predictions and said overall he come down around Leamington. I think you are to be commended for feels the changes are pretty good. Chapman said a new calciner is responsible your honesty and forthright approach for the decrease in carbon monoxide. with whats going on, Dafoe said. Nielson said her biggest concern is New bag houses and other modificatheres not enough population in that emissions tions will help reduce other to protect against higher Leamington well. as Overall, its a good modification," emissions. She said she is concerned about air quality in Leamington. NielChapman said. Its a good change. son also said she wants her reviewas worked project Chapman to be able to enjoy er on the Ash Grove expansion. He said she enjoys. mountain the decrease scenery a the projection seems like big Some of the modifications include vessel enlargement of the preheater tower. The coal mill delivery system and dust collector will be modified. A new burner will be constructed in the kiln. Additional radiant cooling tubes will be installed. This is not a conclusive list of modifications. A more detailed list is on file at the Ash Grove plant. The modifications will result in an increase in clinkercement production and a significant reduction in carbon monoxide emissions. Ware said the Utah Division of Air Quality is in the process of reviewing regulations for the expansion. Ware conceded that Ash Grove has had higher carbon monoxide emissions over the past few years but said that problem will be eliminated by the modifications. Ware said modifications should result in a 1,500 to 2,000 ton per year reduction in carbon monoxide output. Dale Chapman, Air Quality Engineer for the have concerns about the people of Leamington being powerless to stop you from expanding in a great way, Nielson said. I appreciate your presentation. Just dont get too big. Also during the community council meeting, Wayne Evans of the Evans Group of Salt Lake City discussed the used oil program. He said the program is doing well and expanding throughout the state. There are currently 176 where people can locations state-wid- e drop off used oil. Evans said most of the used oil collection efforts started from the Ash Grove Community Council. Used oil collection steering commit I tees have been set up in Washington and Iron Counties to handle collections in Southern Utah. Programs have also started in many different parts of the state such as Moab and Green River. Evans said preparations are underway for the first educational programs in several areas this fall and winter. Two problems were discussed. The first problem is getting collection done on a timely basis. Hot loads is another problem. The term hot loads refers, to loads of hazardous materials. A solution is being worked out to clean hazardous materials if they are received at collection sites. Sandy Hunt, Environmental Scientist with the used oil program, said anew re- - refinery will go on line soon. Genesis Petroleum is an eight million gallon processing facility in Woods Cross. There are six other processors and in Utah, as well as 15 in transporters the state. Hunt said a lot of people in other states are coming to Utah to recycle their oil. Utahs oil recycling program is reportedly running close to $5,000 to $6,000 per year. Evans said public education presentations on used oil collection are scheduled to take place in Millard County this May and June. oil Girl Scout Cookie Sales Qre Nov On! 0 0. great-grandchildr- The Nephi Cadette Girl Scouts, Krystle Cook, Sarah Gibson and Nicole Babashoff, will be Cookies now th rough February 1 7th. Cookie delivery will be March Scout Girl orders for Ifyou are missed, taking Absent from picture, Valerie Davis. See the story on page 3. call one of the girls or GIRL SCOUT COOKIES 11-3- 623-052- |