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Show T" r it j V'iC V '' ''"s' fl--t '. (.' L .V&V V (V;:r' f JLi .. -- .?: i ) Ozl 09 i . i i f - i- 5t Vol. 3 Qianittv 'cnnnUt) icr.; (Z37nitm v . L rffirr inmftTlffliirift-- ,4 1 't r ? i jj I 3 N3 s h it i r r f ' f',-t- ; , .ca.A. Delay Saves In IPP Costs By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff BOUNTIFUL Bountiful Cihave saved other party may ticipants in the Intermountain Power Project as much as $200 million as a result of falling interest rates during a delay in the city signing an agreement to downsize the plant while the city negotiated with Utah Power and Light Co., according to city officials. Bountiful Mayor Dean Stahle said Bountiful officials were often accused of being insensitive and of possibly ruining the entire project by the citys delay. The city was the last of 36 participants in the project to approve the downsizing of the amended a city ordinance that allows horses within city limits. The amended ordinance is more liberal than the previous ordinance. The ordinance allows horses in all areas of the city. The horse, however, must be 50 feet from a home and 100 feet from a neighbors home, according to Councilwoman Irene Janes. The ordinance also allows one horse per half acre, a requirement that many objected to during a public hearing April 19, Ms. Janes said. i t r I Says Mayor WEST BOUNTIFUL The West Bountiful City Council has ; - Wednesday, April 27, 1983 Allows Horses ? r s'r- :. f ' I ! r No. 35 Cify Now f Wv?'fcV' 4' 'flD zmQn3ffliii casLDteD three-mont- h The public hearing was moved from the city offices to the West Bountiful Elementary School after nearly 200 people showed up to speak out on the ordinance. Following the public hearing, the council further amended the ordinance to allow more horses on a one acre or larger lot within the city. Mayor Grant Secrist said the horse issue was basically a rehash of an old issue. He said West Bountiful has from a rural area to a grown ' city, but there are still many people who want horses in their backyards. He said the council tried to get the ordinance right. The council opted to liberalize the ordinance. He said the ordinance has been amended some umpteen times since Ive been there (as mayor). The sad part is a lot of people are not even aware of what is in the existing ordinance, Secrist said. He said the ordinance has been a confusing issue for many people. Copies of the ordinance are available at the city office, he added. IPP. But instead of harming the project, the city actually improved the projects financial situation, he said. Three national bonding consultants informed the mayor at a recent national conference of mayors that the timing was so good they sold $900 million in bonds instead of $700 SISTERS ANN DRESHER, Bountiful (left), 7, and Rachel Dresher, 5, Bountiful, enjoy the warm weather that stayed in the area for a little while, at least until more rainstorms hit. The weather has remained unpredictable in the last few weeks. Bountiful Power Rates May Increase September, demand for power will also be significantly increased. City officials are planning to receive power from the UP&L Hunter I power plant in Emery County to help meet the increased demand. By RON KNOWLTON Review Staff Bountiful residents may see a 15 to 18 BOUNTIFUL percent increase in their electric bills beginning in August. The increase was approved by the Bountiful Power Commission which oversees the Bountiful Light and Power Department. Approval still must be given by the Bountiful City Council before the new rates can go into effect. City Councilman Bob Linnell said the council will likely consider the increase at a council meeting scheduled for tonight. Linnell noted that the increase, if approved, would be the first increase in power rates in Bountiful in three years. The last rate increase was in 1980. Power Commission Member Jay Bingham said another local power company, Utah Power and Light Co., has increased its rates by nearly 13 percent per year in the past six years. For a homeowner with an average monthly bill of $30, the rate increase would mean an additional $4 or $5 per month. Power Commission Chairman Vaughn Bate said the increase will come in part because of a 30 percent rate increase on Colorado River Storage Project power. CRSP power generated from hydroelectric projects, is one of the major power suppliers to the city. With the expected opening of an Air Products Co. plant in City Manager Tom Hardy said the city will likely have to bond for the Hunter power, which may run $9 or $10 million. The city will also need to bond if the city is given approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to construct and operate any of the hydroelectric projects the city is hoping to obtain. Hardy said its anyones guess when the hydroelectric projects will be approved and come on line. Linnell said a 12.4 percent increase would likely meet the power departments $6.28 million proposed budget for the coming year. But Linnell said he was concerned that the power department could find itself with unexpected problems and without funds to meet those problems if at least a 14 percent rate increase were not approved. Hardy said the commission should attempt to improve its cash flow rather than just barely meet expenses. He also suggested that a higher increase than 12.4 percent would help the commission to build up its reserve funds. Vernile Hess, an accountant for the commission, said the city will purchase $1 million in additional power for the coming year to help meet the needs of Air Products. He said he felt some of the other participants in IPP may have also wanted some of the same concessions Bountiful wanted from UPL, but did not take the time and effort to do what we did. We tried to deal responsibly with the matter. We didnt want our sister cities to think we acthe said. ed insensitively, By CHERYL ARCHIBALD Reivew Correspondent Ab' Palmquist said there are a lot NORTH SALT LAKE out 50 to 60 property owners in of false ideas about the slides. North Salt Lake will be receivFor instance, some people have ing letters soon inviting them to thought that the citys digging meet with the mayor and City in those areas has caused the Council to discuss potential earth to slide, when in reality mudslide hazards. the digging was because of the According to Mayor Robert slides. There are measures that the Palmquist, the meeting will be to inform those residents about city can take to remedy some the possibility of slides in their situations. Citizens will be told areas and to discuss things that what the city can and cannot do. can be done, such as not waterPotential hazards have been ing those areas heavily and discovered on Lacey, and said Palmquist. posting weight limits. Mary-elain- The recent BOUNTIFUL windstorm that swept Davis County the beginning of April also damaged a major transformer used by the Bountiful Light and Power Department. The Bountiful City Council has approved up to $112,000 to have the transformer repaired, which will take between 14 and 16 weeks. In the meantime the department is using a reserve transformer. Should the reserve transformer go out, the department would be unable to serve the city, City Manager Tom Hardy said. Without the reserve transformer, the department would only be able to serve of the city, Hardy added. Hardy said the city would likely go to Utah Power and Light Co. for help if the reserve transformer did go out. Hardy said the city could buy a new transformer to replace one-fourt- h the damaged one, but that would cost nearly $250,000. In the meantime, the power department is mulling the purchase of a mobile transformer unit. Berry. Hutchings, Bountiful Power Department manager, said to purchase the mobile unit would cost between $300,000 and $400,000. If the department builds its own, the cost would be around $80,000 for a transformer and whatever it would cost to purchase a trailer and mount the unit. Hutchings said the mobile transformer could be driven to any of the citys substations and used to back up any transfor-me- r that problems. was having Hutchings also suggested that Air Products Co. may be willing to participate in the costs of the mobile transformer. Air Products has a transformer of its own that will be used to power a new plant the company is building in Bountiful. The Air Products plant will produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon. Hutchings said that if Air Products transformer went out, the company would be allowed to use the citys mobile unit if the company is willing to participate in the costs of purchasing andor building the unit. Hardy said he was not sure what caused the failure of the major transformer. The transformer is located at the citys substation in Centerville. Water Testing Reveals 'Variances' Meeting Set on Mudslide Hazards -- project were insensitive to what was going on. Bountiful Awaits New Transformer Rate Hike Approved - million. They said the bonds sold so fast, the bond market was in a tizzy. Stahle said he was told they could have sold 10 times that much for bonds. The city held out on signing the IPP agreement to win several concessions from UP&L. There were those who, during the negotiations with Utah Power and Light, insisted that Bountiful pay for the increased cost resulting from delaying the financing (for IPP). Perhaps it would be fair for Bountiful to request now that these same participants repay to Bountiful the savings resulting from delaying the bond issue for 216 months, City Manager Tom Hardy suggested in a memo to the Bountiful City Council. Stahle said city officials had many visits from IPP personnel who urged the city to quickly approve the IPP downsizing or risk ruining the project. City officials also heard some rather stern and inappropirate words from the mayor of Logan and the mayor of Murray, Stahle said. Stahle said he felt that some of the mayors involved with the a, HusNORTH SALT LAKE ky Oil and Chevron Oil refineries in North Salt Lake have been monitoring underground water in accordance with new state and federal requirements, and have found variances in the samples taken upstream and those taken downstream. They will be doing more sophisticated testing. Dale Parker, executive secretary of the Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee, said that monitoring is required of all facilities which store or handle hazardous materials. Samples were taken of water just under the ground suface and readings were reported to the Hazardous Waste Committee. M.D. Hannan, Chevron refinery manager, said that Chev- ron and Husky Oil refineries were among the first in Utah, to be in compliance with the requirements. He said that the amount of contaminants found varied from upstream to downstream and were greater than the amount you would find in drinkWe dont really ing water. know what this means, he said, and neither does the state because we are the first to monitor and report findings such as these. On March 25, we proposed to the committee that we would do further testing, he said. Chevron will be meeting with the state to get acceptance of the proposal and, said Hannan, Were working with the state to provide information so they can understand how ground water is being impacted by Utah industry. Tom Ferris, manager of Husky Oils refinery said that some had thought that the water tested was from the deeper culinary water wells. He said that those wells are 425 feet down and are filled with water from the mountains. Water being monitored is from 2 Vi to 7 feet deep, he said. No one could use the North Salt Lake Mayor Robert Palmquist said he was not worried about pollution of drinking water because the citys wells are much deeper and are located in Woods Cross. According to Parker, the next step will be to test for hazardous or pollutants in the ground water, while determining how fast and where the water is migrating. r Freedom Shrine Documents from the past 200 years of Un- ited States history are on display at Davis 8A High School. 0300 Full of Holes Index Classified . . Home Living 58, 78 4B, 5B Sports IB, 2B Area courses are full 4 tough holes, but here is a look at seven of the most aggravat- of ing. IB . X lr $ water because it would run out too soon and it is too dirty some of it even lays on the ground surface. '! , |