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Show LOCAL/ STANDARD-EXAMINER THURSDAY,JULY 30, 1992 CITY EDITOR: 625-4220 METRO EDITION BUSINESS OBITUARIES CLASSIFIED Ogden mayjoin recycling program By PAT BEAN Standard-Examiner staff OGDEN — Ogden residents soon may get an opportunity to recycle paper and metals at the front door, but the convenience of the environmentally friendly action will cost them a few dollars each month. Waste Managementof Utah has entered into an agreement with Ogden City to provide every-other-week curbside recycling as soon as 1,000 residents sign up for the service, said Ross Hofeling, spokesman for the disposal business. Participation in the voluntary program, however, will cost $3 a month, plus a onetime fee of $10 for an 18-gallon recycling bin. A coupon to sign up for the service has been mailed to residents in this month’s utility bills, said Linda Manning, environmental intern for Ogden. Shesaid the city is looking at curbside recycling as a way to reduce what goesinto the landfill and an opportunityto let people do something good for the environment. Hofeling said Waste Management will use the $3 monthly fee to cover the costs of pur- chasing an $80,000-to-$100,000 truck designed for curbside recycling and to cover operation costs. materials. “Over the long haul, we want to be the Meanwhile, 100 percent of any moneycollected from the sale of recyclables to local salvagers will be returned to Ogden City for complete recycler — from collecting and community projects, he said product and then marketing it,” said Hofel- Manningsaid the city will be putting any moneyit receives “back into looking at more ing. He recycling options.” operations in 49 states, Europe, South America, the Mideast, the Far East and Australia, has the capabilities to do just that. Hofeling said although recycling is not now a lucrative business, “Waste Management ex- pects to be so in the future. That’s why we're interested in offering the service now ... and why we're investing in research and development of newuses and products for recycled transporting waste to processing it into a said Waste Management, with The international company has 65,000 employees and last year turned revenues of $7.5 billion and is expecting that to increase to $9 See RECYCLE on 2C NEWS BEAT Searching for E.T. Sen. Jake Garn champions search for extraterrestrial intelligence 3c Tissue research Sen. Orrin Hatch vehemently opposes use of fetal tissue for research 4c AT A GLANCE Landfill testing Shuttle motortest called a success decision awaits BRIGHAM CITY — Instead of voting for a landfill plan, Box Elder County commissioners on Wednesday delayed their decision until they determine which site to test-drill. The sites under consideration include White's Thiokol praises new ignition system Valley, west of Tremonton, and Pocatello Valley, about 3 miles Standard-Examiner staff BRIGHAM CITY — If computer data confirms what appeared to be a perfect static test of a full-size space shuttle motor Wednesday, a new ignition system for the rocket will qualify for manned space flight, a Thiokol Corp. spokesman said today. “From all appearances, the test wasflawless, just as every previous RSRM (redesigned shuttle rocket motor) has performed in boosting the shuttle into space,” said Steve Lawson. The test originally was scheduled for Tuesday, but weather, which in- cluded a few lightning strikes around Box Elder County, delayed It. northeast of Interstate 84. During a special session, the The rocket, with its more than | million pounds ofsolid propellant, was fired at 1 p.m. Wednesdayat the Thiokol site west of Brigham City and burned for 2 minutes. Lawsonsaid the new ignition system is just part of Thiokol’s continuing efforts to both make a better product and do it for less money. “Because the improvements are for manned space flight, however, they must be subjected to much morerigoroustesting than if they were going to be used for other purposes,” he said. Lawson said the rocket components will now undergo extensive testing to confirm that the test was as perfect as it looked. commissioners voted unanimously to accept the recommendation from the solid waste advisory committee, which selected Envirofill inc. and Waste Managementof Utah Inc. on Tuesday as the twofinalists for building the landfill. Under Envirofill's plan, the county would take out a $3.2 million revenue bondto finance the building of a landfill in White's Valley. Waste Management's proposal for a 2,000-acre landfill in Pocatello Valley would require no public financing. Commissioners couid choose to test one of the locations by next Tuesday. Shuttle tether has Utah ties By RALPH WAKLEY Standard-Examiner staff It could classify as one of the strangest-looking objects in space, an 1,100-poundsatellite trying to pull away from the 100-ton shuttle Atlantis but connected to the mother ship by a 12.5-mile-long umbilical cord. It will be the 34th shuttle experimentinvolving Utah State University researchers and students, andit will be one of the mostinteresting for the school because the cord or tether has the capability of producing up to 5,000 volts ofelectricity, said John Raitt, USU Physics Department head. Raitt is part of a five-member USU scientific team scheduled to be at Houston’s Johnson Space Center during the flight of the Tethered Satellite System-1, set to begin 44 hours after the scheduled Friday morning launch ofAtlantis. The TSS-1 flight is to last at least 36 hours, said Raitt. A special boom will lift the satellite about 20 feet out of the shut- Police seeking hydrant vandals a small gas jet will maneuver the satellite constructed by the Italian space agency away from Atlantis. Because of the satellite’s nearweightlessness in space, the slender, one-tenth-inch diameter cord should have no problem restraining BRIGHAM CITY — Officials are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of vandals who are ravaging the city's fire the payload, said Raitt. The tether, hydrants. Vandals cavorting early in the morning since July 8 have opened 13 fire hydrants. One hydrant gushed forth so much which includes 10 copper wires covered by Kevlar, a fiber used in bulletproof vests and golf club shafts, can restrain up to 400 pounds, he said. The maximum force exerted on the cord is not expected to exceed 25 pounds. With thesatellite above Atlantis, “they will drag the cord across the Earth’s electromagnetic field,” said Raitt, inducing up to a quarter of a volt of electrical force per meter of tether length. At 20 meters, or 12.5 water it will have to be replaced at a cost of $2,500, said Sgt. Jeff Palmer. He said police already have received two calls about the incidents. “The people think they're just doing a prank, but they're not thinking of all the ramifications miles long, that is a maximum of 5,000 volts, he said, “whenall the angles are right.” The maximum voltage is produced whenthetether is perpendicular to the Earth and traveling in an equatorial orbit so it passes straight through the See USU on 2C tle’s cargo bay andrelease it. Then, SUSAN LATHAM/Standard-Examiner Thiokol Corp. employees watcha testfiring Wednesday of a full-sized space shuttle booster. The test of an ignition system appeared successful, said a spokesman. there would beif we had a big fire,” he said. “You could have someone's homeburn to the ground, and not have the water to fight it.” The open hydrants, shooting Out water pressurized at 100 pounds per squareinch, caved in pavement and destroyed flower beds, Palmer said. Waterslide closed in Terrace fire department budget after section broke Council votes for 13% increase By SUSAN WILLIAMS Standard-Examiner correspondent WASHINGTON TERRACE — City council members are trying to extinguish the controversy surrounding the volunteer fire department. The council voted Tuesday to approve a 13 percent increase in the department’s budget after hearing recommendations from the public safety committee. However, members did not approve the previously suggested 45 percent pay raise for the fire chief. Instead, members decided to take recommenda- tions from fire department personnel on where the increase should go. Committee members will work with firefighters on their recommendations. MayorScott Coates said he believes the department needs moreinternal control. Council membersalso accepted the committee’s recommendations regarding Verl Harris, a former firefighter who resigned, claiming the department’s management discriminated against him because of his age. Members urged him to withdraw his resignation, meet with the fire chief and rejoin the department, which he said he will consider after meeting with the public safety committee to make sure he will be treated fairly if he returns. “That’s what I wanted from the very beginning, is for everyone to be treated fair. And that hasn’t been done,” Harris said. Committee memberssaid they interviewed other volunteers and found noindication that Harris’ allegations are true. Brent Harris, Verl Harris’ son and former fire marshal, said he is concerned the committee’s decision to turn over the budget recommendations to the department is simply an attempt to avoid criticism. He said he believes volunteers may be afraid to oppose the proposed salary increase for the fire chief. However, “We are bending over backwards to make sure what is happening in that departmentis equitable,” council member Brad Dee said. Council members said the department has improved significantly since Chief David Allen has taken control. They said criticism over plans to pay volunteers is unwarranted. “We, as a committee, feel that what we are remunerating to the fire department is nothing more than a token of our appreciation,” Coates said. Coates added that the public safety committee wants to set up a system to review the department and hear individual concerns. Angry residents protest removal of stop sign By KELLY JIMENEZ heavy trucks and buses stop.” Following the council’s unaniNORTH OGDEN — Following mous vote, resident Marlene Petermonthsof debate, the city council sen said she believed the council this week voted to remove a con- hadn’t listened to residents. George troversial four-way stop at 3100. Prawitt, one of the most vocal opponents of the sign removal, called North and 100 East. The removal, which likely will the vote “baloney. “It’s still a safety issue,” he said. take place this weekend, will put But Mayor Bruce Dursteler and the city in compliance with a Utah Department of Transportation council members said they had no guidelines directing the placement choice but to comply with UDOT’s recommendation. Transportation of stop signs. But angry residents who have officials have said traffic through complained rapid traffic through the intersection is not ,heavy the neighborhood damages their enough for it to qualify for placehomes and poses a risk to their ment of a stop sign. | children say they'll seek a court inAfter residents voiced safety conjunction to stop the sign removal, cerns, the council employed Terra| Placards also have appeared in the con Consultants Western Inc. to intersection that read, “North Og- study vibrations caused by traffic den does not care about us, please through the area. According to the Standard-Examiner correspondent firm’s data, the magnitude of vibrations from heavy trucks and buses was nearly twice as great when they traveled through the intersection as when they were required to stop. The council temporarily put the sign removal on hold and gave Terracon the approval to drill three test wells and take soil samples from the road to studytheir contribution to vibrations that residents say are damaging their homes. But he had received no further information on the study, Dursteler told council members the signs either had to stay or go. “It's a matter of moving public vehicles on public streets, on a public thoroughfare,” he said. “Our concern is moving traffic.” Councilman Jeff Stowe told resiSee SIGN on 2° Structural failure suspected in accident By AMY JOI BRYSON Standard-Examiner staff WEST HAVEN — slide at Wild Waters has been shut down after at least five people were injured last week whena section of it broke, causing one youthto suffer two broken legs. The July 21 mishap, which occurred just after noon at the park at 1750 S. 1350 West, is under investigation by the Weber-Morgan Health District. An ll-year-old Syracuse boy, Lloyd Roberts, suffered broken legs in the incident and was released Monday from McKay-Dee Hospital. Roberts was on the Double Trouble slide, with his older brother Wadeabout to follow him, when a section separated and he slammed into the structure as it raised up, Officials said. Other children who had gone down the slide moments before suffered cuts and scrapes, but were treated and released from the hospital, a hospital spokeswomansaid. “There was a problem with the slide creating minor injuries just before this child got injured, but apparently they didn’t realize it was related to this section of the slide until he was hurt,” said Mark Nichols, health department director. Kathy Allen, the water park's manager, said Wednesday four children suffered minor cuts before Roberts’ injury. “The children are sent down every 10 to 15 seconds, By the time we got the first wind ofit, the problem, the lifeguard was in the process of walking over there to shut it down,” Nichols said employees shut off the water to the slide after Roberts was hurt, walked the length of the Structure and discovered the separated section. It was shut down af- terward. Nichols said the slide will remain closed indefinitely. Nichols, who visited the park Wednesday afternoon, said it appeared the injuries were caused by inadequate structural design. “It is clear there was obvious structural failure in the slide the boy was injured on.” Nichols said he believed the slide’s fracture either occurred immediately or was coaxed byrepeat- ed stress over a period of a few days. An identical slide to Double Trouble that Nichols had ordered closed Monday wasallowed to reopen Wednesday with the condition sliders go down only if on tubes. “The tube tends to distribute the weight on a much widerarea so the slide doesn’t experience as much stress. On the slide with the boy’s injury, you go down on your rear end without anytube.” Nichols added that the section of the slide that separated last week easily sustains the most stress on the entire structure. “You go around this corner and then you fly up in theair, several feet even, and then come down exactly in this same spot.” Allen said employees makedaily safety checks, walking each of the slides before the park opens. Wild Waters is owned by Robert Heninger and Clark Romeril of Sandy, said Allen. Prior to last week's incident, the water recreation park just east of Interstate 15 had not experienced any major injury since the 1985 drowning of a 14-year-old Plain City boy, said Nichols. In that incident, when theslide park was under other ownership Troy Whitten died Aug. 16 after he was sucked into an uncovered 23 inch pipe and carried more than 90 feet to a pump house. Volunteers sought for water study SOUTH OGDEN — Thecity is asking owners of homes with copper pipes with lead-solder plumbing to volunteer for an Environmental Protection Agency water study. Glen Moore, public works director, said thecity is required to check drinking water in 60 homes for lead and copper content. The homes must come from a random cross section in South Ogden's service area To qualify for the test, homes must be single-family dwellings built after 1982 with copper pipes with lead-solder plumbing or older homes that have had copper pipe with lead solder installed after 1982. The city will provide water collection bottles and instructions on how to draw samples. For more information, call 479-7130. WHO’s NEWS Roy student wins poster contest Debbie Stringham of Roy recently won first place in the sixth- to eighth-grade division on the nation- fgg ~ : al level of the - pian Smokey Bear and Woodsey Ow! 1992 Environmental Poster Con- test. She took place also first in the Rocky Mountain region Stringham and at the state level Stringham is the daughter of Brent and Cathy Stringham of Roy and is an eighth-grade student at Sandridge Junior High avid L. Burch of Ogden received first place on the state level in the senior division of the poster contest — Standard-Examiner staff |
