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Show Q town 'mni. J -t- eosjrouG . 3 ccaxa. twl? ?d tztni; tMuao uoi iljeJaH twin 'trcmu Vm aan Wednesday, August 17, 1983 Vol. 3No. 50 Sides Regrouping In Sum Plant Battle elections. Mrs. Reed said her group will be attending an upcoming public hearing on the granting of an air quality permit to Incino Systems for the plant which the group says should require a Full Environmental Protection Agency study. She also said the groups inita-tiv- e petition which sought to put e the issue to a vote in November but was rejected by the City Council, will be reviewed by an attorney for a legal BARRY KAWA Review staff CLEARFIELD All is quiet on the front lines for now, as both sides in the battle over a Katy-Seghe- rs proposed $54 million resource recovery plant in Clearfield are preparing objectives and plans to continue the fight. An opposition group met last Thursday to consider future options in their attempt to prevent the facility from being built. ' Spokeswoman Shirley Reed said her group discussed three possible candidates they could support in the November Clearfield City Council elections. One candidate being considered is former Councilman Gene Fes-slwho has filed as a candidate with the city recorder. The council, in late July, upheld the city planning commissions approval of a conditional use permit for a site on 1550 East 700 S. The three city councilman who could face this year are H. Kay Chandler, Thomas C. Waggoner and John S. Beutler. Candidates would have to file by August 23 for November city-wid- opinion. Opposition group member Jim Hurst indicated he met with developers who plan to build a 400-50- 0 room hotel in Layton about possible support from them. He said the group would welcome their help, as well as anyone else opposed to the plant. Mick Crandall, program director of the Wasatch Front Re- er Council, gional Katy-Seghe- said is moving ahead rs on three or four fronts on the project. He said the company is still negotating with Utah Power and Light about the sale of electricity from the plant In October Report Coming On Lake Level SOUTH WEBER residents of all ages joined in activities during South Weber Country Fair Days last week including rade, contests, ommended the immediate breaching of the causeway. He said the report considered the BARRY KAWA pa- Review Staff booth-san- d A comprehensive report on the damages and effects on the surrounding area caused by record high levels of the Great Salt Lake will be released in October, reported Paul Sturm, geologist for the Utah Geological and ' Mineralogical Survey. Sturm said the University of Utah economic and business department research team is conducting the report which will be used by the Utah Legislature next year for information on solving the lakes high water problems. The legislature recently voted down a proposal to breach the Southern Pacific causewway which would have lowered the south arm of the lake by about nine inches. Other proposals being considered include the pumping of south arm lake water into the desert. Sturm downplayed a recent report issued by a joint federal-stat- e flood task force which rec Buckaroo Rodeo. Youngsters (above) enjoy watermelon eating con- - tests which involved contestants of all ages, while Jason Stark, son of Holly and Larry Stark, 1076 E. South Weber Dr., South Weber, comes charging out the chute on a feisty calf during competition at Little Buckaroo Rodeo. More information on winners of various events can be seen on Page 2D. flood reduction possibilities only and not the economic costs or impacts such a move would cause. Sturm said he was extremely surprised when he read the reports recommendation in a local newspaper Monday and wondered why as his agencys lake expert, he was not contacted on it. The survey said agencies which made the study included the Army Corps of Engineers, Utah Comprehensive Emergency Management and the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey. The lake peaked on June 30 at a level of 4,205 feet. Predictions on the continuing rise of the lake level are another foot and a half in the next year and up to 4,209 feet by 1988. State officals predict $156 million in damages, this year to industries, recreation' and wildlife facilities around the lakes shores. On Flood Projects Blame for Odor Humidity, Organisms Bond Election Date By CHERYL ARCHIBALD May Be Changed BARRY KAWA Review Staff FARMINGTON Davis County commissioners hope a n dollar bond special election originally planned for November to finance improvements in county flood control facilities can be moved up' to late September. Commission Chairman Glen E. Saunders said areas of the county are presently vulnerable-tflash storms and an extra month or two saved may be critical in getting the projects under ' way. The estimated $15 million county-wid- e projects would include debris basins, new channels, check dams, enclosed pipes and channel retention basins, Saunders said he doubts if the multi-millio- r Review Correspondent county could be ready for a vote in the September primary elections but could have an election ready by late September. A special election would save costs by consolidating several voting districts at one. location and would take advantage of good weather in the fall, said Saunders. The proposed projects will be paid back by the countys current levy, said Commissioner Harold J. Tippetts. The county annually assesses a two-mi- ll .flood control tax that raises approximately $800,000 a projects. year for This year the tax was increased to 3 mills. Tippetts said if the county is successful in paying for the bond with this levy, there would not have to be a tax increase.' flood-contr- ol flood-contr- ol One per. FARMINGTON son said, It smells like a corn field when the com is ripe. Another opinion was that it smelled like rose insecticide dust. A man described it as an earthy, rotten odor. The third came nearest to naming the cause of an aroma that has wrinkled noses from the northern part of Salt Lake County to the south end of Weber ' County. For the past two or three weeks, the Davis County Health Department has been besieged with callers probably holding their phones with one hand and their noses with the other wanting to know about air quality.' Richard Harvey, director of Environmental Health and Laboratories Division at the Davis Health Department said that the odor might cause stomachaches because of what the person per hi Davit County Fair will be held at Lagoon C3SC50 Fairgrounds He said that decompostion of organic material in the Great Salt Lake from the causeway, along the eastern shore of the lake southward is the cause of the problem. He explained that when the -- the fa when the weather turns With the depleted oxygen, the algae die and sink to the bottom, causing a septic, anaerobic condition. As the algae decompose, hydrogen sulphide gases are released, which are often called Totten egg gases. The reason there is no pronounced rotten egg smell is that there are other gases to modify it. cold once again. But he had suggestions on how to eliminate the problem, and recommended that officials raise the salinity of the lake by opening more flow through areas in the causeway! That would inhibit the massive growth of organisms of the whole area, which is just like soup. He said that a meeting is planned between state health, park, and other officials to solve some of the problems. The area is so active with organisms, that it should be closed for any recreational purposes, he said. We used to get an ocean smell from the lake, but for the last four or five years, as the salinity south. Fresh water streams and is reduced, its been different, canals enter the lake south of the Harvey said. There are several other factors causeway, and 70 percent of the population of the state empties working together to create the its treated sewage into the strong smell experienced recentsouthern portion of the lake. As ly. One is that the lake level has a result, Farmington Bay water risen and flooded fields and veghas become less salty. etation, causing them to rot. Algae have grown in the shalAnd another factor is the humidlow areas, and as Harvey said, ity which seems to hold the The algae gets thick and uses odors in the air. Harvey said the up oxygen, and the warm waters smell will be less noticeable in causeway was built, it cut off the flow of the lake from north to Even though there is no raw sewage being dumped into the lake, the amount of treated sewage is so much greater now because of the greater population, that Harvey said there is just as much organic material entering the lake now as when it was all raw sewage. j, Seasons Start Fair Days week. wont hold as much oxygen. ceives the smell to be, but that there is not enough concentration of gases in the air to make people sick. There could be psychological, but no physiological illnesses, he said. this ID The 1983 high school football season officially began Monday with opening prac- tices. 1C L r , fs , 'i r .i , "' &' S f |