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Show i A r '4 A NEW WELLS ran jcti Water pressure up, conservation urged Roosevelt resident, faced with a sharp drop in water pressure and, in aome cases, water supplies, were asked last week to cut beck water osage by 60 percent. City Administrator Jerrol Syme explained that the Ute Tribe's springs, where mueh of the citys water is' obtained, do not' normally rejuvenate after the winter until the middle of June. With the arrival of warm water, heavy demand for watering lawns and gardens nearly drained the storage tanks last week and homeowners near the golf course found themselves without water. Others complained of very little water pressure. With cooperation from residents, the water storage tanks refilled to a level which once again provided water pressure early this week. However, Syme reminded residents to continue to conserve and to water outside only in the early morning hours. He asked that extra consumption be avoided during the peak water demand hours of late afternoon. The city recently completed drilling to 88 percent increase. Drilling the new wells will msks the dty more independent, he said, but he added that the cost of pumping water from the wells is mors expensive than purchasing the apring water from the Utes. He estimated that the city pays $30,000 a year for water from the tribe but it could cost much as S35JM0 year to pump the water from the wells to the storage tanks and into the dty system. Also at last week's meeting, dtiiena from Poeo Acres eubdiviaion appeared at a public hearing to request that the area be rezoned from R--4, which allows multiple-un- it dwellings, to R-which would allow only single-famildwellings. The area residents, represented by attorney Gayle McKeachnie, said they felt the construction of apartments in the subdivision would reduce their property values. However, the council voted to retain the R4 zoning for Poeo Acres. In other recent council action: They approved construction of a store at Fifth East and Second North, just west of Amys Floral, and approved a beer license for the convenience store. e They appointed Gerald Murray, a local accountant, as the new dty finance director,- - replacing Roger Hunter. Hunter waa notified a eoqde of moitha ago that his employment would be terminated July 1. e Council set its budget hearing far 25 . u y three new wells, which Syme said 7-- would increase water supplies by 800 to 1,000 gallons a minute, nearly matching the supplies currently purchased from the Tribe. At last week's city council meeting, the council awarded a )116JS0 contract to Allred Electric of Altamont to install the pumps, housings, electrical connections and pump houses for the new wells. A meeting on the contract is scheduled Friday. Syme explained that the city is currently using 2,000 gallons of water a minute and by August he expects a June underway for the addition the Duchesne County hospital. The new section of the building will provide central supply and expanded NEW ADDITION Construction is 19. i ' The council okayed payments to Horroeks Engineering of $7,099 for designing the new wells, and $3N for design of the curb and gutter at the new regional park. laboratory facilities and is being built by Williams and Peter-t-o son Construction of Provo for $137,980. The contract calls for an Oct. 1 completion of the 1 ,200 square foot addition. VOLUME 67 NUMBER 24-J-uns 14. 1979 OH3 UINTAHfBASIN FNc. WILDERNESS INVENTORY BLM to hold public N meeting, consider written comments offices and the Utah State Office in Salt Lake City- .; A public meeting to receive comments on the initial wilderness inventory will be Jupe 21 at the Salt Palace in Suite D at 2 p.m. and 7 pm, aid Howard. Persons wishing to comment at the meeting should contact the BLM state office by June The Bureau of Land Management, in .an. effort, to gather .additional . comments on its initial wilderness inventory, will hold a public meeting in Salt Lake City and has installed a toll free phone line for Utahns. The comment period ends July 2. The initial wilderness inventory is designed to identify thoee public lands which dearly and obviously do not meet the wilderness criteria outlined in the bureau's Wilderness Proposal Summary book, said Paul L. Howard, BLM director for Utah. The summary book ia available from BLM district 20. An added service for persona within Utah but outside the Salt Lake City area who want to comment but dent . Continued on page 3 Vernal man killed in oil field accident An oil field . worker from Vernal was killed last Thursday when ho was crushed against a well head' southwest of Duchesne. Danny J. Hardy, an employee of Colorado Well Service, was killed instantly when a work-ove-r rig which had boon accidentally left in gear jumped backward and smashed him against the well head and blow-ou- t preventer at the Gulf OQ site. The call for the ambulance was received at 8:56 a.m. Thursday, and Sheriff George Marett began his investigation as the Duchesne ambul Ten Uintah Basin girls will compete for the title of Mbs UBIC in the Min UBIC Scholarship Pageant this Friday evening, Juno 15, at 8 p.m. in the Union high school auditorium. This years contestants are: Katherine Lou Snyder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bonny Parker, Vernal. She la sponsored by Morrison Creativity and will perform a piano solo aa her talent presentation. She is 19 yean Mr. and Mrs. Reed Stanley, Randlett, is sponsored by the Uintah Basin Riders. She will ring in the talent program. Lori LeBeau, 17, daughter of Mr. Continued on page 3 old. Patricia Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Marshall, Vernal, is sponsored by Uintah Engineering and will perform a piano solo. She is 28 . , u . . f Miss UBIG; to be selected Friday ance picked up Hardys body. yean old. The young man wu helping set the Tana Taylor, 18, daughter of Mr. work-ove- r rig and wu standing clou and Mrs. Lewis Taylor, Roosevelt, will to the well head the rig was backed perform a jazz dance. She is sponsored hole." The driver, by the Roosevelt Chamber of Comup to the apparently revved up the motor to merce. start the power takeoff, possibly to Kandi Taylor, 16, daughter of Mrs. raise the derrick, and discovered too Mary Dale Harris, Roosevelt, will late that the truck had been left in sing. She Is sponsored by the reverse gear. Socialette Club. With the engine acceleration, the Sherlyn Hicks, daughter of Mr. and truck jumped backward in the small Mrs. Junior Hicks, Roosevelt, will play space between the rig and the wall a flute aoloi She is 18 yean old, ami is head, crushing Hardys head ' and sponsored by the Culture Clubb cheat Karl Sue Stanley, 18, daughter of id . SERVING ALL OF DUCHESNE COUNTY. PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY . ;y s' Kari Sue Stanley Sherlyn Hicks Tina Lankford Kandi Taylor Patricia Marshall Lori LeBeau ; Katherine Snyder Jennifer White Ballard asks to hook on to Roosevelts new sewer around the corrals. Firemen from Roosevelt quickly extinguished the blaze in the last Jenkins place Wednesday evening, the' haystack, the posts and the hay spread strong winds spread the flames quickly around the edges of the feedlot. WIND AND SMOKE When the remains of an old haystack caught fire at the Junior , The town of Ballard would like to hook into Roosevelt's new sewer System, Roosevelt wants cash in advance and Ballard wants auuranoe that they can get all the hook-up- s they need. These views were aired at a meeting held last Thursday between Ballard and Roosevelt officials and representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Utah State Board of Health. Ballard had contacted the EPA about a possible grant to build their own sewer system but Ballard Mayor Karl Shisler said they were deeply reluctant to fund a separata system because the new Roosevelt system was designed to Include the Ballard area under the 206 Water Quality Flan. Even if they did fund it, current priorities would put a grant six or even yean down the road, Shisler aid. Roosevelt City Councilman Jay Gates told the STANDARD there was some public sentiment that then had been an agreement between Roosevelt and Ballard to provide the smaller in exchange town with sewer hook-up- s for right-of-wa-y for sower lines. He stated emphatically that there had been no agreement, that Ballard . to give the dty and that Roosevelt had been required to go through condemnation proceedings and a court case to get this sewer lines installed. Gates said Roosevelt had to bond the dty for $700,000 in front money" plus the purchase of the property where the sewer lagoons are, to install the system. He said about three years ago Roosevelt offered to sell one wnrnnth of the system to Ballard for $120,000, but that offer was rejected and at thin print "we dont fool it's legal for no to Continued on page 3 had rights-of-wa- refused y |