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Show tat-estfi- Lakeside Mevew These are the times that try water managers D Weber Basin head to deal with trying anticipated spring runoff hvm LAYTON - Ivan Flint looks at snowpaek data In northern Utah drainages and sees numbers around I HO percent of normal, To deal with the runoff this spring, the Weber Bavin Water Convcrvaney District manager knows he hj u release some of the water stored in the distnct'a reservoirs. If he releases too little, flooding may occur. If he releases too much, there "This is a time when you need to think and plm. Were not liming aiiy difficult iesyet, but were prqwing for i Transportation experts don't expect drivers to give up automobiles Tiw -- may not be enough to meet the demand this summer. HThis is a lime when ou need to think and plan, said Flint. We're not having any difficulties yet, but we're preparing for some Ivan flint real problems. The bottom line is. Mother Nature controls this thing." Flint has been releasing water from his dams in the Weber River system. "lltere's probably enough water (in the snow pack) to fill most of the reservoirs ma)be I l2or two times," Flint said. If it comes off nice, the way you want it to, youll have full rivers and wont even dip into your storage until July. But if it stays cool into May and then (the temperature) jumps to 80 or 90 degrees, these reservoirs wont hold the runoff - even if they were empty." said vpukevman Christopher mer. of a relief than a threat in southern Utah. But flooding Kra- Concerns are greatest along could occur if ihe snow melts too the Bear River and its tributaries, ouickl), said National Weather the Logan River and rivers and Service hfdrologist Brian streams flowing south out of the Uinta Mountains. (lint planned to meet with the flows in the Bear River are Weber County Commission to All Bear Lake for the expected to talk about ways to stem the flood first time since the g farmlands. "Were going to love that. We threat in want the lake back up." said Bear In the Uinta Basin. Dave Lake State Bark manager L d in is working with local Robinson. Based on project1 ms to prevent flooding along from Utah Bower, which com ols Ashley Creek. the lake level, he expects the water to rise 7 feet this spring. Right now it looks like we A snow pack with 140 percent could have flows comparable to of its usual water content is more I98J," Rasmussen said. Mel-neme- low-lyin- Ras-muss- en ofll-cia- As of now, the Utah Division of Comprehensive Lmergeney Management foresees a serious spring flood threat. We have a high potential of exceeding the 1983 and 1984 (runofl) levels," Aitoomd Press It makes sense that with Interstate 13 soon to be mired in reconstruction gridlock, Utah's motorists finally will leave their cars at home and hop a bus. Don't count on it. Turning to mass transit may be the logical thing to do, but the typical American's love affair with the auto- mobile has little to do with logic. "It is the John Wayne mentality: One horse, one cowboy," explained transportation consultant Bryan Porter of Sacramento-base- d Parsons Brinkerholf. Studies Full construction project begins under way this spring. Others may avoid but clog alternate routes. Even those who do decide to let Utah Transit Authority do their driving for them during the crunch likely will return to their motoring ways once the reconstruction project is finished. "There is more dependence on the auto in the Salt Lake City area than in many other areas nationwide," says Tad Widby, also a Parsons Brinkerhoff transportation consultant. It is tougher in an area such as yours to come up (alternative-transportatiooccur during reconstruction thing. incentives that work." Some 433.000 motorists now and become permanent once the drive daily around the Salt Lake $1.36 billion project ends in NoChicago has seen the reconvember 2001. struction of major segments of Valley between Bangertcr Hightwo expressways during the past way on the west and 1300 Last." For example, delivery busi10 years and where reconstrucsaid John Leonard, nesses likely will change their engition of a third begins in 1998. neering coordinator for the Utah schedules during reconstruction. Department of Transportation. During the late 1980s demoliWidby points to the 1984 Olymtion and rebuilding there of a Our goal during reconstruc- pics in Los Angeles when many three-mil- e section of the Dan tion is to get from 8 percent to 10 companies began moving products overnight, abandoning dayRyan Expressway, 7 percent of percent of those drivers - 34.800 motorists surveyed left their cars to 43,300 to change lifestyles, time deliveries altogether. and cither get together with othat home and used mass transit. When the Olympics were over ers in cars or get them out of cars two weeks later, shippers such as But when the freeway reopened two years later, 6 percent completely, he added. Northrop Aircraft, which delivof those motorists climbed back If only I percent continue ered aviation parts from Los Anwith alternative transportation geles to assembly plants in the into their cars, says Ed Christois rebuilt, that's 4,330 desert community of Palmdale, pher, spokesman for the Chicago when Area Transit Study. found night deliveries avoided people." Utah transportation officials The Parsons Brinkerhoff condaytime traffic jams on Los Ansultants also point to positive, geles overburdened freeway agree that Wasatch Front commuters will likely do the same but subtle, changes that might - road-buildi- -- waiting for approval of their plan to cut back on pollution over the next 20 years. Road construction was halted in 1994 after federal regulators decided the county wasn't addressing how to control PM10 pollution. PM 10 is the name given to traffic-generat- tiny, airborne particles Earlier this month, the state Air Quality Board approved amending the PM 10 control plan to allow 4 tons of additional pollution to be emitted from auto sources every day. The next step is for Gov. Mike Leavitt to write a letter approving the plan, which will be reviewed by both the Federal Highway Sjxiri c If mini imm uonth way. Don ! kt turn buy your (Kg' I trip ti ivuliMr' Call lodiy (nr a bk FK ti INITIAL CONSULTATION. rrra Utah County to go ahead with major road building projects - PROVO Officials are ex- pecting notification by April I that Utah County conforms with dean air laws and they can resume their projects. Kathleen McMullen, director -- of physical planning for the 'Mountainland Association of Governments, told the Utah County Clean Air Commission Tuesday that the ban on road construction in Utah County is nearing the end. The association has been Steam Ahead! of other areas of the with country where traffic flow has been constricted indicates some drivers will continue to squeeze onto even when a massive Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. McMullen said that process will March 14-15-- Golden Spika Events Center take 90 days. 10 microns in diameter. The government order put the brakes on significant building projects, such as the Salem Loop and the Interstate South interchange in Orem. 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