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Show UTAH 467 PRESS ASSOC. EAST SALT LAKE 300 SOUTH CITY UTAH 84111 Monument Slovenian Day Clampers pay tribute to old Castle Gate payroll office. Page 15 Slovenians turn out for the annual picnic. Page 5 j Tuesday August 22, 1989 Price, Utah 50 cents National Guard helps police locate marijuana By LAYNE MILLER Staff writer ) About 100 people have descended on Carbon and Emery counties in a massive effort to erradicate marijuana growing in the area. d The effort is a called drug sweep Operation Greenleaf. The state-sponsore- federally funded program involved 84 members of the Utah National Guard, Carbon and Emery officers, the Carbon County Drug Task Force, the Utah State Department of Public Safety and Price city law enforcement officers. According to Lieutenant Jay Averett of the Utah Department of Public Safety, the units planned to search out and destroy suspected marijuana plots in both coun j i three smaller helicopters, numerous ground vehicles and a lot of communications gear. Colonel Jerry Mooney, Utah National Guard, said the men were serving in the drug erradication excercise m lieu of their normal training, or as an additional Officials explained southern Utah has been identified over the years by intelligence as a big source for marijuana. In the past, fields have been two-wee- two-week- i ... I National Guard command post has been set up at the Carbon County Airport. The Guard will be involved with law enforcement A officers looking for marijuana days. " j in the area " during the next few I Dams being inspected for safety The Manti-LaS- al National Forest is in the process of surveying all the Forest dams in CarSan Juan and bon, Emery, counties. Sanpete A recent analysis of the dams Forest Service-owne- d Service-owne- d within the Intermountain Region indicates that many are not in compliance with current safety standards and that a backlog of needed repairs and maintenance exists. After each has been thoroughly inspected, a proposal will be made to either breach, repair, andor recon struct or reassign to other entities through a special use permit. A dam analysis report for the Manti-LaS- al National Forest will be written this fall and made available as early as December 1989. Dams not meeting safety standards may be breached and recreational opportunities foregone unless funds are available to repair or reconstruct. Economics, recreational use (current and projected), recreational facilities, fish and wildlife, public access, (Continued on Page 3A) ks s. (Continued on Page 9A) Fire restriction ( ! ties. We plan to find marijuana that our intelligence tells us is around here and destroy it, Averett said The 84 guardsmen were made up of members of an aviation section and special forces along with three Huey helicoptors, on Utah wildlands have been lifted Fire restrictions placed on Utahs state and federal lands since July 10 have been rescinded. In making the announcement, State Forester Dick Klason and Bureau of Land Management officials noted that although recent moisture, lower temperatures and higher humidity have combined to reduce the fire danger enough to lift the restrictions, fire hazards in Utahs wildlands remain moderate to high. We are asking the public to continue being extremely cautious with campfires and any other fires "says Klason The publics cooperation during this summer's fire season definitely helped keep the number of fires down We want the public to know this kind of is support appreciated. greatly i i The rescission means that buildmg fires, smoking, and operating chain saws and motorized equipment in the states wildlands are once again permissible. i Flood does thousands of dollars damage ( CHRISTENSEN Sun Advocate editor By STEVE I Floodwaters rampaged through the north portion of Price last Thursday afternoon, causing motorists concern, flooding basements, washing decorative rock into the streets and leaving a layer of mud in its wake. City officials say there is no way to estimate the extent of monetary damage caused by the flood, but it was at least several thousand dollars, including cleanup efforts. Weather service officials report over sin inch of rain came in a little over an hour, but many unofficial reports say the amount was at least 1.5 inches and some say as much as 2 inches. The rainwater collected in the hills and made its way down collector streets. One of the worst areas appeared to be 800 North, where several residents took measures to keep the floodwaters out of their basements. Both L 200 East and 300 East were turned into waterways, along with 800 North. Police blocked off a section of 800 North from 1300 East to about 800 East for over an hour, mostly because of the possibility of problems with a bridge over a dry wash at about 1150 East. At one point there was over five feet of water rampaging down the wash, but the water stayed in the channel and no damage resulted. Officials said monetary loss was relatively minimal, considering the amount of water. Many people were left without decorative rock that had been in parkways. Many people were also left d lawns and flowwith few er beds and a people reported water in basements. City crews were forced to leave the annual city employees picnic Thursday afternoon to begin the cleanup process. Crews worked all day Friday and part of Saturday to clean up mud and debris left by the flood. No injuries or serious structural damage was reported. mud-cake- I i Not everyone was devastated by last Thursday's flood. These people, on 800 North, took advantage of the situation to have a little fun in the water. One official said many people looked at the flood as an event," rather than a disaster. i rirnirritrii -f- t. rut iifutminiiimftinnim, ji n!i.i.ti.fMrry |