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Show 4101 EXP 111999 PRESS UTAH 307 SALT W 2un LAI E CO' 5 ASSOCIATION STE 5005 84101-37CITY UT S 68 7 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 96, No 10 Wednesday, March 11, 1998 Gly Ccundl "Cfcrllbs" nsv; end c!d cn ivnJn? hcclrups By adopted a revision to the Nephi City Policy on Residential Water Connections Beyond City Limits, in keeping with debate surrounding the lack of times to define the meaning of new and existing. Two Myma Trauntvein s correspondent Nephi City Council members dates were inserted into the policy by a vote of the council. New will now refer to any residential construction built after June 16, 1992. Existing water connections will now be defined as those residential dwellings existing beyond city limits as of June 16, 1992. In 1992, Nephi City adopted a policy governing culinary water use for residential purposes outside the city limits, said Chad Brough, Nephi mayor. Recent questions about the use of water outside the city brought to light the weakness in the policy no dates were used to clarify the procedure. Therefore, it was unclear who would qualify for the water delivery and who would not. It is Nephi City Policy not to permit connections to the culinary water system for any new residential construction beyond city limits. With the passage of the addition of the date, said Brough, the understanding should be clear. It is also policy to allow water connections to residential dwellings in existence before 1992 only on a hardship basis. They will all be considered on a basis, said Randy McKnight, city administrator. In order to demonstrate a hardship, the property owner must make written application which will include a copy of the well drilling logs for the proper. Correspondent Nephi City Council gave final preliminary approval to the entire plat for South Towne Estates to be located in southeast Nephi. David Hardy, developer of the South Towne Estates, asked the council to approve preliminary plats B through G. He already has council approval to construct Plat A. Hardy received approval from the planning commission for the project and the council decided to grant preliminary approval. The approval will lapse five years v , from now for those plats not having re- be the responsibility of the irrigation ceived final plat approval by that date. company. The council can tell Mr. Hardy that I thought the decision was to have final approvals wont be given until the irrigation company work out a soquestions are answered about the turn- lution, said Hardy. He said he had ing radius of corners in the subdivision worked with Golden Mangelson, city and until there is an agreement be- special projects administrator, to detertween Mr. Hardy and the irrigation mine a solution to overflow water. A ditch in the fields could be used to company on overflow water from the above the divert the water so it would not flood irrigation pond (situated the homes to be built in the subdivision project), said Chad Brough, mayor. the to" council do the job if it were only kept would Hardy objected asking him to arrange with the irrigation com- clean. They, the irrigation company, pany to make certain there is no flood- havent worried too much about it being in the future. The responsibility cause they have not needed to, said should not be his, said Hardy, it should Hardy. There is not a lot ofwater which c grass-covere- .t lr "v i . case-Vy-ca- FUTURE SUBDIVISION Now just grass, sagebrush and weeds, construction on the first seven lots in the South Town Estates subdivison will probabally start this sping. The City Council gave preliminary OK to plats b through G at the last City Council meeting. ty. the policy. Nephi City Council reviewed an agreement, in its draft form, of an agreement for mutual aid See Water on page 2 would flow down the ditch. If the ditch was clean, it would handle it. Last summer, said Hardy, the irrigation company had an uncompleted project to put in pipe which would handle overflow water, he was told. The overflow water would then come back down 500 South. Im also an irrigator, said Darin Peterson, council member. He wondered if the flooding caused by the pond overflow was not an historic use. The pond was not 50 years old, said Hardy. Those gentlemen have a responsibility, he said. Water from the pond had caused flooding of some farm buildings in the area owned by Dan Johnson prior to Hardys project and the irrigation company should have the responsibility of making certain such flooding did not occur in the future. The planning commission thought the irrigation water was not Hardys problem, said Randy McKnight, city administrator. He said the plans Hardy had brought with him showed the easement for the water and also showed another set of lines north of the first where the water goes today. Richard Paxman, council member, said the solution may be as simple as getting future property owners to agree to have a swell in each lawn where the water could go if the pond did overflow. d They could just have a ditch in the lawn, just a swell, so the water could go there if needed, he said. Talk to Randy Greenhalgh, president of the irrigation company, said Brough. They are telling you that it wont flood there. That could be the answer and you could be in agreement with the councils request. Get it in writing. Brough said he also wanted Hardy to look at the cul de sac in the project. In the past we have had trouble getting our big garbage truck in and out of tight areas, he said. We want to make certain there is enough room for the truck to maneuver. Hardy agreed to do as the council requested and the council gave approval to the project with those restrictions. You have been good to work with, said Brough. 10-fo- ot . The logs must show the property owner has drilled to a depth of 300 feet and not found any adequate producing water strata for culinary use. The applicant must also indicate whether they have made application to Nephi City for annexation. All permitted connections will be totally at the property owners expense and will be metered at the city limits. There is no guarantee of pressure for water usage beyond the city limits. Rate and connections fees are set by resolution of the city council. Brough asked if the council thought the wording was better and made the policy easier to understand. Yes, said Mike Jones, council member. I think it does clarify Single Copy Price pDaCo oca ouGEa octi Gcflattei GonaouirusSSona meny oGgitG GCans cppncag Times-New- s pages y (3ocDMD ppewee ppeDSnaanmoir opCafi By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- 10 (SCdqgCi fep 3 pfgooduGgcO 0 GggG (?? GGUGGi?i!!JGGDra p)?GGG The Central Utah Water ConservanGarrett, who is also one of the cy District (CUWCD) held a project clos- farmers in Juab County who will ing at the office of the East Juab Water benefit from the project, said the Conservancy District (EJWCD) in Juab project would be built over a three County February 18. year period and in three phases. ' V The meeting was held at the Juab During the first phase, the Salt A County Cultural CenterDaughters of Creek sediment control structure, the Utah Pioneers Museum on Nephis main pipeline, and three of the dis? Main Street during the evening. tribution laterals will be constructAt the closing, the officers of ed. The second phase of construction will EJWCD were presented with a cer! tificate of participation and a check involve building two or three additionf 000 000 ' I for $6 million for implementation of al laterals from the main pipeline and the East Juab Water Efficiency the third phase of construction will inProject through the Water Conserva- volve completion of the remaining lattion Credit Program. erals and improvement of the The project is designed to convert irrigation systems, said Garrett. water use on 1,600 acres of farmland The project calls for construction of a $6,000,000 DOLLAR CHECK Officials from the Central Valley Water Conserfrom flood to sprinkler irrigation by 13,800-folong main pipeline, eight vancy District presents a $6,000,00 check to East Juab Water District officials replacing earth and deteriorated pipeline laterals totaling approximateconcrete canals with a pipeline irri- ly 121,400 feet, new turnouts and congation system, said Ross Garrett, nections from new pipeline laterals to farms to sprinkler irrigation and interepresenting CUWCD. gration of five irrigation wells. When fully operational, the East Juab Water Efficiency Project is expected to conserve 6,785 acre-feof water per year, said Garrett. He said the conservation amount will be credited toward the CUWCD annual water conservation goal of 39,294 as established in Section 207 of the Central Utah Project Completion A on-far- m ot et acre-fee- t, Act. CD BC ir II v X J |