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Show 1 il i BsisSn S,tiamdlaiirdl dUnndtlsilld Thursday. January T3. 1983 Uintah Basin Standard 11 j home was only one of several threatened by the Strawberry River after an ice jam forced the water from its banks. The water was channeled across the field by Duchesne County Crews. The water is now gone, but the ice and channel cut by the river remain. This K 120 manag Colly DEcnan 1902 PRECIPITATION IS Howard C. Nielson, third district congressman, will hold a public meeting in Roosevelt, Wednesday, January 19 at 7 p.m. A public meeting will also be held in Duchesne at 9 a.m. Friday, January 21 at the courthouse. Nielson, who was appointed last week to the House Energy Committee, will hold the meeting to let the public ask him questions and share views with him. The meeting is scheduled to be held in the Moon Lake Building, according to Carol Gillespie, Duchesne County Republican party vice chairman. He will also sttend a breakfast hosted by the Lions Club at 7:80 a.m. Thursday, January 20. The newly elected congressman will fly over the Duchesne and Uintah County area Wednesday to get an overview of Utahs energy producing region. Nielson said he is "happy to receive my first choice for a committee He was the only assignment. freshmen congressman appointed to the energy committee. I can think of no greater by Duchesn Duchesne City has gleaned a new city manager out of 40 applicants for the position. Mayor Scott Maughan said Jim Allan started work Monday as the new manager. The mayor and the city council interviewed 20 applicants. At the city council meeting January 4, the council offered the $16,000 ajrear Job to William S. Callahan, but Callahan later turned down the offer. ' Maughan said he thinks Allan will do a good job for Duchesne. He has the experience needed to straighten out the problems incurred over the past few years," Maughan said. "We are happy to have him." Allan, who has been attending Brigham Young University Graduate school of Management, has a master's degree in public administration with an emphasis in urban management Allan said his first priority will be to make sure the city is on sound financial footing. Allan has done projects and conducted studies for several Utah entities, he said. He did a long term fiscal study for Salt Lake City on where the dty was going financially and has done projects for the city of Orem and the Utah Navajo Developement Council in Handing. He also worked four months in Roosevelt under former dty admini- -' strator Glen Vernon in 1981. Allan served for 10 years in the Army as a career officer. Five of the years were in Europe, and he served twice in Vietnam. Since leaving the Army he has served in the Army Reserve. He is a major and the director of enlisted men training. . adds member Western Fuels Association, Inc., Incorporated in 1974 with electric members, Western has added a 32nd member, Platte Fuels begins 1983 with a virtually River Power Authority with headnew panel of officers. Retirements quarters in Fort Collins, Colo., Ken and changes of assignments have Holum, Western Fuels general provided since last January a new manager, has announced. It is the r Association's third Colorado mempresident, vice president, and vice secrets ber. rer. The Platte River Authority conOf the original board of directors, sists of four Colorado municipalities, Fort Collins, Estes Park, Longmont, only one member is still serving -James T. Grahl, general manager of and Loveland. Robert Dekker, DirecBasin Electric Power Cooperative of tor of Light and Power at Estes ' Bismarck, N.D., one of the original Park, is chairman of the board of directors. Albert J. incorporators. Hamilton is general manager. Stanley K. Bazant of Albuquerque, N.M. is president. He is executive Platte River currently is construcvice president and general manager ting a of Plains Electric . Generation and known as station power generating Transmission Cooperative, Inc., Exthe Rawhide Energy Project about 200 miles north of Fort Collins. It is cept lot Bazant, the current set of officers was elected during the scheduled for completion late this Associations December board meeyear and is expected to go into commercial production in April next ting in Denver, the changes resulting from the retirement of C. R. Thiessen year, Holum said. of Lambert, Montana, and subseThe Authoritys present energy quent realignments. They are: supply consists of preference power Merrill J. Millett of Sandy, Utah, from Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) and from its general manager of Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative, ownership share of the vice president; northwestern in Yampa Project Ralph Tearney, director of electriColorado, a percentage which amounts to about 144 megaWatts of ' cal operations, Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kansas, capacity. and Western Fuels is a fuel supply John E. Randall of Newell ton, cooperative organisation, a Louisiana, president of Cajun Elec- - ' serving fuel supply snd fuel transconsumer-ownetrie Power Cooperative, Inc., headof needs its portation members -- rural electric quartered at Baton Rouge, La., vice secretary-treasuregeneration and transmission (G&T) Other Colorado members of Wescooperatives, municipal electric utiliGeneration ties, public power districts and state, ' tern Fuels are and Transmission Cooperative, Inc., and regional associations of such of Thornton, Colorado (one of the utilities. two-rur- secretary-treasure- eight-memb- er coal-fire- d . Wafer situation looks promising Rain and snow are two things Uintah Basin residents have seen plenty of this year, and because of the luge amounts received, water forecasts for the spring are very positive. According to the January 1, 1983 report filed by the Soil Conservation Service, the 1983 water supply outlook is near average. The report states that snow coverage ranges from 98 percent of average in Daggett County to better than twice the average on the Whiterocks Watershed. Ashley Creek is 147 percent of average, Strawberry River 149 percent, and Lakefork-- ellowstone Rivers are 165 percent of January 1 average for teh 15 year period from 1963-7Precipitation at mountain stations ranged from 123 to 184 percent for the Y October-Decemb- er period. Soil moi- sture is also above average due to good August and September rains on .the watershed. secretary-t- reasurer, it d r. -' Tri-Sta- te opportunity to serve the people in my district. Utah and the West really need representation on this committee because the issues it deals with are so vital, Nielson said. The representative said he hopes to be assigned to the Energy Committee's subcommittees on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels and Health and the Environment Subcommittee assignments have not been made yet Nielson said the third district ranks as a top energy producing district This includes billions of barrels in oil reserves in oil shale, tar sands and recoverable oil reserves. It billions of tons of high grade: coal reserves and some of Americas richest reserves of uranium. also-include- "It is my intention to see that these valuable resources are developed for the good of Utah and the nation,-Nielsosaid. Nielson will also address Uintah Basin Association of Governments meeting in Manila on Thursday; January 20 at nobn. LICENSE FEES RAISED Western Fuels non-prof- Neilson to visit Uintah Basin area UTAH founding members) and the Department of Public Utilities of Colorado Springs. Also a portion of northwestern Colorado is served by a rural electric cooperative,. Moon Lake Electric Association, which is a Western member of a Fuels member, Deseret G & T of Sandy. Utah-base- d Streamflow forecasts range from 80 percent of average on Henrys Fork to 133 percent on Strawberry River for the April-Jul- y period. Other streams are forecast as follows. Duchesne at Tabiona is expected to be 126 percent; 122 percent at Duchesne; 131 percent at Myton; and 124 percent at RandletL The West Fork of the Duchesne is expected to be 129 percent for the April-Jul- y average. Currant Creek is forecast at 129 percent of average, while Rock Creek is expected to be about 118 percent of the average. Lakefork should run at 108 percent of average with the Yellowstone at 112 and the Uintah at 106 percent. Whiterocks and Ashley should run at 112 and 130 percent, respectively! Reservoir storages within the Basin are presently above average for this time of year. Moon Lake is presently at 192 percent of the average capacity for this time of year. Steinaker Reservoir is at 161 percent and Strawberry was listed at 166 percent of the average. Figures for other lakes and reservoirs in the area were not available. Seasonal streamflow for October through December was above normal. Flow for this period on the Green River at Green River was 224 percent of normal December flow at Green River 178 percent of was 187,000 acre-fee- t, normaL . Animals costing Roosevelt City Dogs are everywhere, and they're costing Roosevelt residents a huge amount of tax dollars each year. According to Roosevelt Police Chief Cecil Gurr, the Roosevelt Animal Control Officer is averaging over 100 calls, per month regarding stray animals. He emphasized that this does not include those animals which the officer picks up on his own. For this reason, the funding for Animal Control will see a shortfall during the budget year. The objective of the program has been to maintain the present level of animal control services and cover the costs of the services. Because of the problem, however, this has become difficult. During Mondays City Council Males will increase from $10 to (20. Spayed or neutered will increase from. $5 to $10. The late fee will also increase that amount. The first confinement ot a dog will increase to $30 plus $5 per day. The second confinement will cost the owner $40 plus the $5 per day. For cats the license fees will be $15 for a female and $10 for a male. For spayedneutered the license fee will be! $5. The late fee will also be $5. For the first confinement the charge will be $15 plus $2.50 per day with the second confinement increasing to $20 plus the $2.50 daily charge. The decision was made because it was felt those causing the problem should be responsible for the solution. meeting several alternatives were discussed. The first would be to cut the services to fit the budget. The second alternative was to maintain services and pay the increased costs from an increase in fees andor increased enforcement of licenses, andor an increase in all animal control fees. The present budget allotment from the City is $11,200 with $3,500 coming from licenses and $600 from fines. There were a total of 225 licenses sold in Fiscal year 1982. Licenses sold to this date in Fiscal year 1983 are 131. The projected increase is 17 percent. It was decided at the Council meeting that present levels of animal control should be maintained. For this reason, it was decided to raise the foes for licenses and impound. The cost for dog licenses will increase from $20 to $30 for females. v VA benefits explained in Roosevelt American Legion Department Service Officer, Dave Parkinson, will be traveling for the .Veterans Outreach Program to assist veterans and their dependents with Veterans Administration Benefits. Mr. Parkinson will be at the Roosevelt Job Service, located at 195 North Union Street, on. January 20, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. s |