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Show District Wants to Buy Landfill Judge Denies Stahles CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Start CENTERVILLE - Centerville Mayor Neil Blackburn announced the Davis County Solid Waste Disposal Special Service Districts intentions to try to acquire BARD and NARD at last weeks Centerville City Council meeting. "The service district wants to operate both BARD and NARD, Blackburn said. The service district, of which Centerville is a member, was supposed to have sent a letter to Bountiful stating its intentions to buy out Bountifuls interest in the Bay Area Refuse Disposal. But as of last Wednesday, the letter had not been sent according to county commissioner Glen Saunders, new chairman of present landfill site for use by the disrefuse and as a trict for non-burnab- le sterile landfill. Bountiful City Manager, Tom Hardy, said $397,000 has been set aside by BARD for closing of the landfill. Of that amount, 54 percent is Bountifuls. Also, Bountiful owns 80 acres of the landfill site, and 96 acres is jointly owned by the cities participating on the BARD Board. Bountiful is willing to work with the service district if it wants to buy Bountifuls share in the jointly owned property. Sure, were willing to work with anyone with a reasonable proposal, Hardy said. If the burn plant works for the other cities we say, thats great. Were the special service district. willing to work for their interests while The letter, as stated by Saunders and working to protect our own. BARD may have a useable lifespan for Blackburn, was to have declared the service districts intentions to work with all cities if diking of the lake goes Bountiful to acquire property at the through, he said. Realizing the concern r of other cities that ground water contam- ination at the landfill may have to be cleaned up and that it may be very expensive to do so, Hardy explained, If there is that big a question (about ground water contamination) we should get an independent company to come in and test. He recommended a private engineering firm such as Montgomery Engineers which has civil, soils and water quality engineers to do comprehensive" testing. ' Blackburn said the district is moving forward. Cities have been asked to pass resolutions to send their refuse to a bum plant when it is built. Also, cities will be loaning 50 percent of their collections for garbage fees to the service district until bonds can be sold to raise revenues. Request for Injunction APRIL ADAMS Review Start A U.S. DisSALT LAKE CITY trict judge rejected a request by the Clipper Publishing Co. Inc. of Bountiful to grant a preliminary injunction against the Lakeside Review, a subsidiary of The Standard Corp. The motion, which would have required the Lakeside Review to raise its advertising rates by 30 percent, was rejected by U.S. District Judge Aldon J. Anderson on Friday. Anderson said "all the factors the plaintiff has to show (for the granting of an injunction) are not fully estab- lished. Bountiful owns the landfill and rents the use of it to other cities in South Davis County. I cant say that the case is likely to succeed at a trial, the judge contin- - ued. The lawsuit was brought against the Standard Corp., by Eean Stahle, the , publisher of the Davis County Clipper and three other newspapers in the county. The suit alleged violation of .', federal and state antitrust laws, and accused the Lakeside Review of( predatory advertising practices. Stahle maintained the Standard Corp., through the Lakeside, continually sold advertising space at rates below cost in an effort to drive the Clipper papers out of business. Anderson said there had been competition between the publishers due to changing conditions in the business. He referred to the advent of shared mail advertising companies. . Cntrv V Hrigm GznnUm (Mul&i) Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Vol. 4 No. 45 Republicans Seats Fill (Election (Landslide Juries (democrats APRIL ADAMS percent of the votes. Paul Lloyd Selleneit received 64.8 percent, to win the 18th Districts house seat, by defeating Lillian Wood, Democrat, who got 33.3 percent, and Libertarian Franis Laddie Swaner, with 1.7 percent. In the 19th House District race, Republican Kim R. Burningham received 93. 6 percent of the votes, while his Libertarian opponent, Richard Bombard, received 6.3 percent. Robert H. Garff, House Majority Leader, won the 20th District House seat easily over American " Party candidate Reva Elaine Wadsworth, by collecting 89.1 percent of the votes. Republican Jack Bangerter, received 90.5 percent, to win the 23rd Senate District seat. He defeated Reldon White, 4.9 percent, and Vera Edwards, 4.4 percent. 3 Review Staff The projected GOP landslide for Davis County and the state, proved true Nov. 6, when voters turned out in record numbers to vote Republican. The candidates for county com- mission, county clerk, state lative and senatorial legis- races collected comfortable margins over their opponents. Incumbent County Commissioners Harry B. Gerlach and Harold J. Tippetts both won easily over their Democratic and American Party candidates. Tippetts, who collected 64 percent of the votes, won the four-- , year seat over Democrat Dennis A. DeBoer (33.4 percent) and American Party candidate Herbert Henderson (2.6 percent.) Gerlach gained the two-yeseat, with a 61.7 percent margin over Democrat H. Chuck Johnson (36.1 percent), and American Party candidate James R. Etherar Incumbent idge (2.2 percent). In the county clerks race, present county clerk Michael G. defeated Democrat Howard Stoddard by a 63.8 percent mar- All-ph- in gin. Present County Attorney Loren Martin ran unopposed, and1 as predicted, was reelected. Incumbent Ute Knowlton, run- ning for 17th House District, won with 73.9 percent of the votes over Democrat Jay Clegg, who re- ceived 22.9 percent and Mary Mickelson, Libertarian, with . Davis County school board chairperson Sheryl L. Allen won over Glenn S. Gold. Allen received 68.7 percent, while Gold collected 31.2 percent. In the Precinct 3 race, Henry Heath won the school board seat, in another close race over Scott Hansen. Heath collected 51.3 percent, while Hansen received 48.6 percent. In Precinct 1, Raymond G. Briscoe also won a school board ' member seat, by defeated Carl M. Johnson, by collecting 54.2 pern cent. Johnson received 45.7 cent of the votes. per-An- Photo by Robert Regan , LAST OF THE leaves to fall are raked and bagged in South Davis County by teams like Tyler and Beverly Sudweeks. and his mother were busy with the project, The the mother raking and the son running and playing in them. Phillips Refinery Quiets Noisy Flame Centerville Asked For Curb, Gutter FRANK RICHARDSON Review Correspondent ' WOODS CROSS Officials at the Phillips Petroleum Company refinery in Woods Cross have announced completion of changes in the refinerys flare stack which should reduce noise from the stack by 40 to 60 percent. Installed in October, the modified flare tip cost the company nearly $12,000. According to M.L. Lacey, refinery manager, the move is a public relations effort and part of the refinerys good neighbor policy. The noisy flare tip was originally installed in 1983, to meet EPA standards. Lacey says that no one expected the noise. The tip replaced at that time smoked too much, but was silent. The new smokeless tip, however, was so noisy that residents complained it kept them awake at night. We were as surprised as anyone, Lacey said, We probably would have corrected the prob- - lem even if the citizens hadnt complained. The culprit in this case is steam. When the refinery flares hydrocarbon gases, they mix the gases with steam to get a cleaner bum. The steam jets into the burning gases, creating the noise and inviting complaints. Lacey said that refinery technicians worked with a fabricating firm to redesign the tips steam atomizing ring. Since completing the installation, Phillips has test- - ed the new tip for noise at various distances and noise levels. Tests show that overall noise has been cut by at least half. Refinery officials are preparing a letter to neighboring West Bountiful city council explaining their efforts and results. They are hoping the improvements will satisfy local residents. The question still to be answered by the refinerys neighbors: Is half the nose quiet enough? Keeps Resource Recovery Plant Alive $64 Million Plant Bond Sale Approved portions. This will be millions of dollars FARMINGTON- - Action to above what will be needed, but if a lower number had been set, keep the clock running on a prosuch as $30 million, and more has resource recovery plant posed was needed, you couldnt get it, been taken. Wil Jefferies of the Wasatch A resolution approving the issuance of up to $64 million in Front Regional Council, told bonds for the construction of the board members for the special solid waste service district. facility was given an okay recent. It will take another resolution ly. the board to actually sell the resoa it is not by binding Though revenue bonds. The industrial lution, the authorization was to maximum interest rate for the finance the the construction, operation and cost of acquiring variable rate RIBs is 15 percent, equipment for the proposed bum though Smith Barney, Harris plant east of Hill Air Force Base. Upham and Co., the marketing agent, will determine the rate. Also included in the approval Nov. 29 is still the date schedthe was the cost of acquiring North Davis Refuse District, if uled to sign the purchase( agreecities involved in the. current ment for the bonds, which may agree to sell their be sold with a seven day notice. APRIL ADAMS Start Review ip 4 This causes the interest rate to be very low, a process which has been used heavily over past years. The bond debt service on the construction costs and all other costs, including the landfill up- grading, is estimated at $2,963,000. The total expenses for the first year of construction is estimated at $5.8 million. Board members agreed a settlement over the landfill, if one is reached, may take many months. All cities who own portions of the landfill are members of the service district, except Layton and Clearfield, who own approximately half the land together. In cases of joint ownership of an entity, where some owners are willing to sell and others are not, the case must go to court and a judge must divide up the land. The bond money must be spent in 36 months. Some of the amount issued will be used to retire bonds to reduce the debt service, Jefferies said. Officials involved in the project say the bonds will not affect the tax base of the county, since they will only be payable from the rates and charges for the bum plant. But the special service district must promise to charge whatever rates, such as tipping fees, is necessary to pay off the bonds, said Jerry Hess, district attorney. Several cities outside the county have requested to use the burn plant, Jefferies said. V DEBBIE DANGERFIELD Review Correspondent Residents CENTERFIELD 100 S. Street in Centerville have filled a petition with Centerville requesting city approval to contract the installation of curb and gutter on 100 South Street and adjacent properties located of on 700 E. Street. The residents of 100 South Street said they feel that it is in the best interest of both parties to install curb and gutter at this time, rather than waiting until next spring because 1) 100 South has sustained flood damage, which has not been repaired; 2) a drainage problem exists on 100 South Street as a result of runoff from the subdivision to the east; 3) the street is currently torn up for other repair work; 4) no asphalt surfacing has yet been installed. surveying alignment and poof the street has already been established as a result of curb and gutter improvements in process on the south side of 100 South Street; 6) the edge of 100 South Street that has not been flood, damaged approximates where curb and gutter would be installed. Therefore, additional grading and road base would not be required. The residents have asked to be allowed to enter into contract 5) sitioning with a private contractor to curb and gutter and aj proaches to existing driveways. They ask that the city of Center? ville provide surveying, grade stakes and excavation to grade which are required to prepare the site for the curb and gutter installation. While residents want the project to be completed by 1985, council member, Lee Duncan, said that residents should look at completing the whole project at one time, which just wouldnt be possible this year due to the weather. He suggested they put the project off until next year. We who live up there, know more about what takes place up there than the people on the council committee, an angered petitioner said. He said the residents want the problem solved now before they receive more damage, Kent Lindsey, spokesman for the community, said that the cost of concrete will rise by the first of the year and there are several older people who live there who are on fixed incomes and cannot afford to wait or suffer more damcon.-stru- ct . : age. The committee tabled the petition until they could look into the matter further. They referred the claim to the street committee for a 30-da- y review. ' |