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Show j Warm Temperatures Push Mud, Water Into Valley CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff - BOUNTIFUL The feared Spring runoff of mud and water has begun with warmer than usual temperature this early week. Bountifuls Mueller Park r de-br- is basin is performing well, even though a battle is being fought with debris from torrential Mill Creek. Waters over the weekend poured through the culvert below the debris basin as crews raked limbs and branches from the grate, but by Tuesday morning waters from the creek had formed a lake below the basin. Water was cascading through the trapezoidal overflow. Spring runoff which is swelling because of warm temperatures, is not slowing down, but City Manager Tom Hardy said that it is not picking up either. Peak flows were Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, he said. If the weather does what is predicted by forecasters and stays at 70 degrees during the day and drops to 40 at night, the situation should remain stable. Further up Mill Creek, past the LDS Church, W.W. Gardner crews lined the creek with boulders and rocks to retain hillside dirt and mud. Chunks of the mountain along the creek broke by helicopter routinely, for earth lose and slid into the creek. movement. Bountiful police Trees and limbs are keeping have placed stakes in potential back hoe crews busy clearing out slide areas, consistently monitorslotted casings, or grates, on the ing during the night for movesouth side of the road. ment. Status reports go out Diking was necessary in Muellevery morning to city officials er Park to keep Kenny Creek on and concerned officials. So far, its course into Mill Creek. The stakes have not shown any creek usually runs under the movement. Mill Creek races through park road, but a culvert became Bountiful's concrete lined creeks clogged with debris sending wag ter down the road. Hardy said and ends its course in there were no other problems in West Bountiful. Now that theN the park, which experienced its creeks have been lined, last years first mudslide during a warm problem of clogged culverts and diverted streams has been elimispell in April. Forest Service geologists and nated, but, said West Bountiful hydrologists survey the canyon Emergency Services Director, Ir low-lyin- t Cross post office. Access to anything west of the railroad tracks is from 1500 South. Redwood Road is closed off at 1500 South. Culverts clogged up and sandbagging began Sunday morning, channeling water into a neighboring fields. Mill Creeks course in through Phillips Petroleum property, but excess water runs through an underground culvert along 500 South, Jay Dewell, West Bountiful City Councilman ene Janes, It just gets to us faster now. West Bountiful has flooding in the same area as last year, 500 South at the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad tracks. x Residents living in a west of the DG&R railroad tracks had to be evacuated Tuesa.m. day morning at about s when a wall of broke. Emergency volunteers, city officials and residents got it under control, said Sergeant France Montgomery, Woods Cross Police Department. The street has been blocked off to through traffic west of the freeway and past the Woods four-ple- 1 sand-bag- said. That is the culvert that became clogged with debris. The culvert could handle the water, if it werent for the rocks and silt," he said. i Quoit fenrfe v. QsHrer) Wednesday, May 16, 1984 - CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review : - Start WOODS CROSS Congress.; man James Hansen advised Re- -; publicans to check of elected officials voting-record- to- -' their philosophies. Weve got to have govern-;- ; ment, but weve got to have less, he told delegates and at the Republican in Woods Cross on Saturday. Republicans at the convention were given the message to get ; others involved. There are ; 68,345 registered voters in Davis County, Zenda Hull, National Committeewoman said. Of those, 50,231 voted. From Utah there are 13,772 oversees voters who should vote absentee ballot. Imagine those absentees in the country, she said referring to missionaries and others, who should be encouraged to vote. Chuck Ackerman, state Republican chairman, urged republicans in Davis County to make contacts, make telephone calls and do the blocking and tackon the district level. ling After listening to state republican gubernatorial candidates,! and county candidates, delegates went into legislative caucuses. State delegates were elected from; the nine district caucuses. Re-- ! publican nominees for Davis! : County offices were chosen. Where there were more than; one running a 70 percent majority was needed to eliminate one runner. Otherwise, a primary ' run-owould be necessary. ; ; Two primaries will be held because of close votes. In District 16, incumbent Franklin Knowl-to- n won 17 votes while his opponent, Hersh Ipaktchian, got offi-cia- ls Party-Conventi- - ; .v -j, ' v : ' VAi PtnK Photos by Robert Regan WITH THE WARMER temperatures came the feared runoff from the moun- tains. Crews (above) work to keep the debris grate above Mueller Park from clogging up. Bountiful and Centerville prepared for this year, but Layton (left), which had no problems last year, found itself with a disastrous mudslide in the Fernwood park area, Clearfield Withdraws Burn Plant Homeless; Landfills Reviewed BARRY KAWA " Review Staff LAYTON waste-to-energ- With a proposed burn y plant to give north Davis city representatives information on upgrading the problem landfill. The meeting took on added significance with the future of the burn plant in doubt and the current NDRD landfill a key element in solving the areas refuse disposal dilemma. Wasatch Front Regional Council program director Mick Crandall told the board capital costs to upgrade the landfill would approach $1 million by Jan. 1, 1985. Included in the upgrading projects as recommended by an EMCON study on the landfill would be to install drainage facilities, fencing, perimeter exca- homeless, the North Davis Refuse District board has conceptually approved a plan to upgrade and extend the life of the NARD landfill. The board Monday voted to. submit a $1.6 million proposal to the Davis County Council of Governments on Wednesday for consideration. The action comes in the wake of a decision by Clearfield City Council last week to withdraw a conditional use Incin-c- o permit from a Inc. to build burn Systems plant in east Gearfield. vation and embankment, Mondays emergency meeting fencing, new maintenance buildof the NDRD board was called ing and new well. five-ye- Katy-Seghe- ar rs New equipment costs would the landfill in the past. He said exceed $900,000 with the the surface water problem must NDRD board contributing be addressed, otherwise a poten$300,000 out of a reserve fund. tial leaching contamination The total bonding amount problem similar to that near an would be about $1.6 million old Hill Field landfill on the canal may occur. with each city in the NDRD disI dont want to be in a Hill trict deciding on bonding to covField mess, he said. Harvey er the costs. Crandall said the upgrading is said the increased ability to meanecessary to solve a potential en- sure contaminants may cause vironmental problem with the the state and federal government state in the future. He added the to crack down on the NDRD upgrading is necessary to extend landfill in the future. The board agreed to submit the life of the landfill. The life of the landfill is extremely sensi- the five-yeupgrading plan to tive to how you operate it, he COG for consideration and comsaid. parison of costs to building a Davis County Environmental bum plant Health Division Director RichpresMeanwhile, ard Harvey said theyve been ident Harold Miller has sent a dumb and happy in operating letter to Clearfield Mayor don Hamblin asking the council to review last weeks 0 vote to withdraw a conditional use permit issued by the council last ar Katy-Seghe- Bountiful Budget Hearing Set CHERYL ARCHIBALD r Weve inherited a debt-fre- e city from prior councils and Capital improvement expenditures for streets were less than Bountiful governments, Mayor Dean budgeted last year, since flood BOUNTIFUL efforts curtailed some of the City presented its final review of Stahle said. . Bountifuls tax mill levy went planned street repairs. the proposed 1984-8- 5 budget at its regular city council meeting from 10.37 to 12.39 last year to Patching of holes has begun and Hardy said the work should pay for flood projects not reimlast week. The tentative final budget is bursed by the county. In next be finished by June. Major overavailable for public inspection at years budget that will drop lay work will begin in July, he said. Bountiful City Hall, and a public back! A home valued at $70,000 will 23 scheduled for is May The police department will get hearing pay $1,078 in property taxes. Of a budget increase next year as it for its final adoption. did last year, because of salary Bountiful has one of the lowest $129 will go to Bountiful and benefit increases. The next debts in the state with a service that, The rest will go to schools, largest increase from the general city. the county, and to other taxing budget will be for the fire departdebt of $100,000, said Tom Harentities, Hardy said. ment. dy, city manager. Review Staff Two Better rr i When it comes to learning and having fun, two is always bet ter than one. A program at Meadowbrook uses that philosophy as they help handicapped students. 7A 5-- August. The Clearfield council cited reasons such as lack of participation from enough Davis County cities to make the plant feasible. Bountiful, Centerville and Lay-to- n city councils have rejected contracts to commit their citys refuse to the bum plant. Despite the councils decision which left the burn plant without a site in Clearfield, Miller wrote, but we nevertheless still have the expectation of proceeding with the Davis County resource recovery project in the fall of this year. index Than One Business Classified ad) dS&XT V T rs Miller asked the Clearfield mayor and city council to review last weeks decision. The vote came about an hour after a Davis Solid Waste Management Project board meeting to update cities on downscale sizing plans for the plant. In the meeting, Davis County cities were briefed on the decision to reduce the size of the plant from 500 tons to capacity. But Clearfields action has left the board without a site for the plant after a lengthy battle to secure city approval and reduced emission standards on acid gases. Wasatch Front Regional Council Director Wil Jeffries said Monday although no action has been taken against the decision, about a $4 million investment and underwritby ing bond attorneys is at stake. If they think something was not legitimate, theyre not going to walk away from that $4 million, he said. Jeffries said a scheduled May 30 hearing on the issuing of industrial development bonds to finance the burn plant is still planned. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. in the Katy-Seghe- Davis ! ff 11. In District 17, narrowly missed primary election quired 27 votes County Commission Katy-Seghe- rs tion against Gearfields decision. I hope that doesnt occur, he said. You dont want to see those cities incur those kind of expenses. Ute Knowlton eliminating a when he acto Douglas C. Cannons 12. Harry Gerlach, incumbent rs Chambers in Farmington. Harvey said the next step is decision on whether or not to take legal ac- -- , County Commissioner for a term eliminated opposition from Ron Greenhalgh, former West Valley City Attorney by winning 153 votes. Greenhalgh gained 60 votes. Candidates bumping out opponents with a 70 percent majority yote were Scott Holt, who had opposition from Marqueax Price, Lloyd Selleneit who ran against Naomi Shumway and Jack Bangerter who eliminated Elaine McKay. Running unopposed were County Commissioner Harold Tippetts, County Clerk, Michael Allphin, County Attorney Loren Martin, and Kaye Browning, Henry Dickamore, Kim Burningham, and Robert Garflf, legislators. Braves Shine 3B 4B.5B Bountiful Highs baseball team tied for third place in the 4A state 4A Editorial Home Living. 5A.6A ..7A School 1B.2B Sports baseball championships held in Salt ; Lake City last week. IB V , |