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Show FW sowerer VEO sea aos OOS awe 8S we Owe wae ee’ CU a owns oF - Thursday, June 3, 1993 al LOCAL Standard-Examiner Wild month of May keeps weather watchers busy May precipitation By CHERYL BUCHTA vation Service Standard-Examner staff The month of Maywas wet, wild and wonderful this year. By the first week, May had Precipitation totals for May: earned its reputation of the wildest % of period in recent memory. A series of storms bringing high winds, heavy rains and snowblewthrough the Wasatch Front, making some wonder if winter had returned. City, location May precip. normal Alta 6.44" 190% Bountiful 4.86" 138% Brigham City 1.91" 94% Bryce Canyon 1.92" 188% ‘We're pretty lucky, considering the whole area along the Wasatch Front, that we haven’t had anything more than minor problems getting the snowpack down.’ “We're pretty lucky, considering the whole area along the Wasatch Front, that we haven't had anything more than minor problems getting the snowpack down,” Alder said. Although stream flows are high and will continue for several weeks, farmers have reported only minor pasture flooding for the most part, Julander said. Director praises management of Northem Utah reservoirs LAYTON — We Bas water managers are beaming with relief and pride over tl bably will begin spilling this t said. Weber Basin stores a two-year supply in Pine- state of Northern Utah's reserirs “You couldn't have managed Pineview better if you were three people,” Ivan Flint, Weber Basin Water Conservancy Dis- dams are spilling, and although Echo is not full, its share of water is assured and being held at ' ind East Canyon CedarCity 0.54" 86% Farmington 4.20" 161% Flaming Gorge 2.36" 149% Two tornadoes were reported in Erda near Tooele and south ofVernal. And when everyone thought gist for the National Weather Ser- nearly filled reservoirs. High stream flows will keep the reser- things had settled down, heavy vice. voirs full longer this year, Julander trict director, told the aistrict § Morehouse has been full for a Holladay 6.06" 260% rains laced with awesomelightning By mid-May, the extra rain, cou- LoganUSU 2.33" 114% Moab Ogden Orem 1.30" 183% 3.47" 138% 3.92" 186% strikes marched across, setting several houses and a Davis Countyrefinery on fire. Two tourists from Switzerland were injured May 18 when lightning struck the tree they had taken shelter under during a thunderstorm in Bryce Canyon National Park. With all the storms, Salt Lake City International Airport reported the second wettest May on the pled with heavy snowpack, had weather watchers nervous that Utah would see a repeat of the said. Officials still are watching Bear River along the Utah-Wyoming superintendent, Grant Salter, at the monthly meeting “We dumped a lot of water into the Ogden (river) but we can see every day that we're damn glad wedid it,” Flint said. “We played it just right.” Water officials had been releasing water in reservoirs in anticipation of heavier runoff in the future. Pineview Reservoir is full and long timeand is spilling 400 cubic feet per second, Flint said. Managers still are releasing water from Wanshipto hold space Pineview Dam 4.47" 146% St. George SLC Airport Tooele ss 0.10" 26% 3.99" 222% 3.96" 207% Zion Natl. Park 0.82" 98% Source: National Weather Service books, said Bill Alder, meteorolo- Student rocket project suffers small setback a WSUprofessor of electronic engineering technology. The WSUstudents will be collecting data to analyze the motor’s performance, including ‘such things as thrust, chamber By RALPH WAKLEY Standard-Examinerstaff OGDEN — Aerospace executive Ben Jurewicz and Weber State University’s Kermit Reister say students from northern Utah’s four universities are learning everything about the real world of designing and building a space rocket — everything including the frustration of delays. The latest setback, although pressure and temperature, he said. “You get a success with this one, and we might go for the full-scale motortest next,” said Reister. That static test would be conducted at Hill Air Force Base at end of this summerorearly in the fall. just a minor onethis time, will delay the next test of the student-built rocket motor by eight days, to June 12, Jurewicz said That puts the static test of the full-scale rocket motor about four months behind schedule. Wednesday. “We had some trouble getting a part. We're not going to make it by this Friday,” said Jurewicz, past chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and head of systems engineering for Thiokol Corp.’s space program. The studentrocket, called Unity 4 because it is being built by students from Brigham Young, Utah, Utah State and Weber State universities, will use a hybrid engine. The propellant will be solid and the oxidizer — in this case, pure oxygen — will be And that means the students won’t be firing their first rocket until sometime in the 1993-94 academic year. Their original plan was to conduct the first launch last month, said Reister, who is also associate director of WSU’s Center for Aerospace Technology. “I’m sure there’s a little disap- pointment,” said Reister. “But the students recognize the reality of the situation. They know they were a bit ambitious. This is a difficult job even if everybody worked for the same company. “It’s just like the real world,” said Jurewicz, a South Ogden resident. , Each school has part of the Unity 4 project, to develop a rocket capable of conducting upper-atmospheric research, reaching an altitude of at least 130,000 feet. WSU’s share includes building the communications system and electronics, and Weber students also are involved in constructing the ground-support equipment and modifying a Hill test stand to conduct the full-scale static firings of the hybrid motor. a compressed gas.. By regulating the oxygen re- lease, the students will be able to turn the rocket motor on and off and regulate its thrust. The problem is that a brass injector is not ready. The injectoris being machined at USU,to control the flow of oxygen, and it will not be ready until at least next week, Jurewicz said. The test will use a half-scale motor, about 4 inches in diameter and about 2 feet long. It will be wired by WeberState students to collect data on the three planned firings of about seven secondseach,said Reister, FREE CLINIC. — Bill Alder The extra water also filled or border, Chalk Creek at Coalville 1983 floods, when sudden hot and Blacksmith Fork at Hyrum, weather sent snowpacks tumbling. But this year the weather cooperated with cool nights to slowthe melt. “From our perspective, the river said Dave Storm, hydrologist for the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center. The Provo River has been over runoff worked out well,” said flood stage above the Jordanelle Dam for a month, he said. Randy Julander, snow survey supervisor for the U.S. Soil Conser- next several weeks, Julander said. All the rivers should peak in the Wanship Reservorr. Smith- for runoff from the upper Weber River. But they have stopped releasing extra water from Willard Bay and it has begun to fill. Only Lost Creek Reservoir is not expected to fill. On May 27, Lost Creek was at 86 percent of capacity. Minimum requirement for wood is one cord Standard-Examinerstaff OGDEN — The Ogden Ranger District is making it easier for people to cut firewood this year, reducing the minimum permit requirement to one cord of wood, RE Wied TAKE THE SIMMON’S BEAUTYREST “REST-TEST” AND ENTER R.C. WILLEY’S.. spokeswoman Barbara Burgan said Wednesday. The district’s minimum last year was two cords of firewood, Burgan said. The maximum is again four cords, and the cost is $10 per cord. The permits can be obtained later this month at Ogden’s Union Station or at the district’s offices, 507 25th St. The permits, along with maps showing the designated Curtis Creek cutting area, will go on sale beginning June 28. The service is waiting until the end of June, Burgan said, because the winter snowpack still is limiting access into the Curtis Creek area. To reach the area, motorists should travel east from Ogden on State Road 39. 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