Show roiniDMDim Thursday April 22004 A4 The Herald Journal staler- Your view (grrwe Cincinnati to wasted water cul-de-s- 1 1 problem is they never put the master meter in And when the leak was brought to their attention they were not willinglo help solve the problem The city has all the resources and equipment to detect a leak I’m sure they have the manpower to have helped us As three men came to shut the Water off during one of the times We tried to fix one of the leaks Someone has to pay for that wasted water My guess is it's passed on taxpayers I’d like to know who is responsible for the underground utilities It was ' our understanding that we were responsible for the line running from our homes to the individual ' meters And the city was responsible for the utilities ob the other side of the individual meters I think the amount of water that has been wasted is more of a cost tolhc taxpayers than if the city had helped fix this leak Who is jooking pul for the water ctHiser- to-th- around here? Apparently' it is not a priority to our city I have contacted people at the state and vaition ' guilty of abuse To the editor: Now that CAPSA hits announced the grand opening of their new shelter 1 decided that I had kept quiet long enough This project was rammed down our throats by the city The powers that he wanted ii so badly that although we prevailed with our lawsuit much weeping and wailing by CAPS A got the city to rewrite the rules so they could build their new shelter This shelter was heeded so badly that they First built themselves a big fancy office building and furnished it hand- somely It was years later and after serious fund-raisibecause of what had already been spent that they finally got around to building what to all appearances is a jail Special glass for bullet cul-de-s- ' oq CAPSA itself Logan blind To ihc editor:' I would like to bring to the attention of Logan city residents and taxpayers of a recent problem concerning Utah's drought Our has had a water leak for about two years The city has not been really concerned about this We couldn't get them to look for the leak or even mark the water line So all we could do was to wait for a sink hole to show' up Once one did my husband and a couple of neighbors started to dig down to the water line They rented a pump that pumped 5(H) gallons of water a minute It ran for about six hours straight We estimate the water waste to he about 50(XX) gallons of water a day: For two years you do the math "it's a lot of wasted water a very precious commodity these days We live in a private about 12 years ago we received a letter from the city of Uigan stating they were putting in a master meter They also stated they would he able to detect a leak with this master meter If one was found the cost of the excess water would be divided among the ffesr - city both the news media whomever I thought might listen All I can seem to get is a lot of lip :service And plenty of tips on how to save water if niy toilet is nin- ning or washing my car on niy lawn I agree iilj those things will help but gi ve me a break! 1 resistance multiple cameras and keyed gates It was never mentioned nor do I ever remember approval for a double (and I assume chain) link fence to pro- lecl the structure Maybe they’ll finish it off with some concertina wire complete with razor points This project has been a boondoggle from the very first From the retention pond with a drain to the ditch to the new revised shelter it is anything but beneficial to those of us Who must live next to it Lack of onsite ' parking and a steady stream of cars in and out finish it off I have lived here for almost 25 years and it has always been a’ nice quiet neighborhood Now that this new addition which the city insisted would enhance our area has been built I find that I am in need of security cameras and hullet-pnxglass We were assured that there would not even ' he the necessity of ever needing to ciill the police I wonder if I need to hire a security guard Perhaps some iron bars on my win-dows and doors will ease my ' mind None of the problems that we pointed out were even seriously considered 1 believe that the only di (Terence between this building and the new jail is location and num- her of guards The neighborhood has instead of being enhanced by this project been degraded to the' point where we must not even be safe in our own homes They Wanted ii nice quiet neighborhood so' everyone would get that warm fuzzy feeling and feel that they were a pail of something They ' could have built-iSiberia and V been just as much a part of whal’s around them They claim to be ' against abuse but they've sure abused my family and put us through hell bigger-than-ev- er if : Georgia Price Val bgan Logan Cowley 200S 6EOR6E BUSH'S IRAQ BY Give me cows over condos By Jim I homes is vanishing in a sea of condo developments hnd second homes There's a vital question for all of us' when we talk about the highest and best use of a piece of land: What does that mean when it comes to water and farmland? and I were Last summer discussing the fires sweeping the West The conversation turned to water and my friend the owner of a recreation- based company' complained bitterly about the amount of water devoted to agriculture in Colorado “Did you know” he asked“that 80 percent of the water in Colorado is used for agriculture? Yet farming and ranching only constitute only 14 per- cent of the economy?” I surprised him by saying “So what?” ' He growled in disbelief “Well what would you prefer? I answered ‘Take the agricultural lands in many of the valleys in Colorado Would you rather see them save the water for human consumption and encourage 50000 people to move into the area?” “No” he replied “I don’t want that Stiles ’ve always had a love-ha- te Writers rela- tionship with cows I’ve cursed them loudly when they turned my favorite mountain meadow into a cow-pi- e strewn wasteland But then they taste on the Range so good I’ve inched my way through a herd -- of these stupid beasts on some highway as their cowboy masters moved them to summer range or to the feedlot and the hammer and hook and I've wondered if I cOuldever century culture of ours that makes us want to tear our myths and heroes apart? Beyond my irrational defense of the cowboy and his cow there’s the reality of a commodity-drive- n society Back in the “good old days” of20years ago Western land issues seemed much eas- ier to define We didn’t give much ' thought to the ranchers or to the communities that were built upon ranching or what would happen to the ranches themselves — the century-ol- d homes and bams tucked under ancient cottonwood trees the alfalfa fields' in ' the valleys that are as much a part of the Western landscape as the mountains that rise above them Environmentalists didn’t consider then and many don’t care now about what might become of the rural West if public-land- s ranching ends Environ-- : mentalists have embraced tourism and ' recreation as a clean alternative to the either" kinds of traditional extractive indus-trie- s shook my head “Well it’s going to including ranching that have' not ' be or the other As B Traven once pne been good to the pf course ‘This is the real world mucha-ch- o said tourism has always been a key compo-neand we are all in it’ Do you think ii in many economies they’ll just let the water flow slowly to -rr as it should be the sea? Somebody’s going to make It’s the runaway money 'off that water” tourismgrowthexpansion of towns I understand the points made by like Moab that should worry us: ” advocates But at a time Exploding tourist numbers transform a where the is ' '“amenities economy” community shifting the emphasis of ah new threat the to entirely the town away from the people who ' ' American West a West free of ranchlive there and toward the tourists who ing makes no sense at all don’t Meanwhile there's more dam- -' age to public lands than ever before ' from both motorized and Jim Stiles i$ a contributor to Writers on ' ' grow accustomed to their reeking flanks But then have you ever seen er eyelashes than those adorning a Hereford cow? If any of my had been able (or willing) to bat eyelashes like that at me who knows where those relationships might' have gone? When 1 see a herd of those heavy-sungulates trampling yet another mead- ow I am appalled at the damage Yet when I see yet another field turned into a condo development I ask myself: Is meadow as bad as this? a burned-oI have lost patience with ranchers " who abuse the land they make a living from but I’m careful hot to paint all ranchers with the same broad stroke If someone tried to tell me that rancher Heidi Redd didn’t understand the hedit of the American West I’d punch them in the nose She has Jived most of a life at Dugout Ranch in San Juan County Utah and I'm glad she’s thereI've been reminded that the Cowboy izeduse ' Most of Utah's Spanish Valley once My th is just that but then I wonder a bucolic h isn’t that what we need more of these of alfalfa fields and funky cow is it cars 21st this with What pastures junk days? cynical et 1 land-An- nt small-tow- : ut - : : non-moto- “cow-free- cre-atii-ig : : r- the Range & sendee of High Country News (hcnorg) He is the publisher of the Canyon Country Zephyr a bimonthly paper in Moab mish-mas- National view Spain has sent the wrong message to terrorists world It's true that' Mr Zapatero made bis withdrawal pledge well before lbe March 1 terrorist bombings of a! commuter train in Madrid Thus he could legitimately claim that the ter--' rorists did not influence his policy But that wasthenNow in his hurry togetthe troops home Mr Zapatero is sending a very different arid dis- -' ‘ quieting message 1 Ulhoiigh his! decision to withdraw iriNips Iroin Iraq conies as no ' surprise Spanish Prime Minister J()sc Luis Kiulriguez Zapatero 'nonetheless acted with unexpected '' swiltriesyin rirdering the trtxips Non Sequitur '" The " Herald Journal mnpg nvicjh The Opmwn page is intended to acquaint readers with a variety of viewpoints on inatfei ofpuMc importance and provide members of the community with a fonim for their views1 Personal columns cartoons and letters horn readers reflect the opinions of their writers and creators Editorials under the heading "Our View' represent the views of the Herald Journal edrtoriai board: Members of the edtoriaj board: 'jLXryiT wfcunp IN W5& abpvtt upwtugv GP0D OLO DARREli EHRLICKcity edtor : ClNOY YURTHfeaiures WNW UCMIICS OJA “Right conclusions artmoit iffItj to be gathered out of a multitude of longues than CHARLES MoCOLLUMrnanaging through any (jnd of authoritative selection Letters should ' be- -' Typewritten and double-spac- ed No more than 450 words in length Addressed and include daytime phone number tor purpoees of verification ' Signed by author Indwiidude are limited to aiiipitosthiia editor ’ — Juigt LemeiTknd v !?3PwPriXddwseE-nMlaUerslo editor BHUCESMITHpubfeher cot1- - The Herald Journal welcomes Mem to the edtor Potentially Nbdous or offensive letters win be published hoWevw and Iheedtor reserves the right to edit all letters to conform ' to the length and style requiremenls of the ' - j CdPOD OLD DW6 : svs Stmenan fh jaift a hjtettefOrijnewscom Guest com- tott also welcome and aw tun af a (1S72-136- 1) s f V ::- f |