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Show L'1N'TAH to show the impact on nearby water sources will be minimal rests on the PROTESTS Continued from page 1 aid City Administrator Brad Hancock. When you take into consideration the ground water and the surface water in tho Uinta River drainage, the city, he said. Morgan said public hearing on water issue are held twice a year in each county in the state. The neat scheduled public hearing i in October, unless the city ask to have the matter expedited. The city funded the purchase ofthe amount we would pull out for culinary water deal with Sprouse with purposes would not even amount to a $300,000 loan'grant mix from the Board of Safe Drinking Water, and a drop in a bucket, he stated. the city did apply for water (him loan for $700,000 from the Community Impact Board. Its Starvation when it was being appropriated year ago, said Hancock, but estimated that it will coat another $1 million to drill a new culinary well to were told there was no water available. Sandwash is also totally out of replace the irrigation well, and then the question asa water source, he said. pipe the water to where it would conBoth sources would require over SO nect with the Hayden wells. That fundmiles of large diameter pipe, include ing is also being arranged through the uphill pumping and be extremely C1B. expensive. Claims mads by nearby fanners and ranchers that the operation ofthe Hayden wells --which went on line in Continued from page 1 the mid 1980s caused springs and wells to dry up is a fallacy, according to the lands. Whereasthe people Hancock, who notes those claims came preserve own the land, oil and gas and mineral duringasix-yea- r drought when wells rights are obtained through leasing ran dry from Jensen to Heber. from the BLM. During the drought years, the permits Accordingto Lekas, pressure from Hayden wells, which are also served special interest wilderness groups and through an underground aquifer which wilderness advocate Department of flows from the Uinta Mountains, met Babbitt has the demands of2,000 households from Interior Secretary Bruce to honor failure BLM's resulted in the Tho five Neola. to Roosevelt city oil and Subsequently, existing rights. Hayden wells continue to meet tho gas companies are complaining they to are dose water demands.but citya are re fused rights of way permits and being utilised to capacity, said are unable to pursue development on Hancock. State officials from the Whiterocka Fish Hatchery art also opposing the request to change tho city's water rights filing, alk. gingUM move would have an advene effect on tho spring flow that supply the hatchery. In their letter of protect, attorneys repreaentingtheUts Tribe requested the city prove the diversion of tho water on the Sprouse property would not impair the tribes vested water rights. Accordingto State Water Engineer Robert 1-- Morgan, it's not unusual for his office to receive a great deni of protest letters in any water project. Were merely iookingfor the facta associated with the project. People get very emotional about we ter in Utah, be stated. "We are interested in preserving water and making aura it'sjput to beneficial use." The burden of providing evidence WILDERNESS - KOOSliVII 0 mm OttBQCGD One Show Sunday 7:30 iiu vniRtt, (lnm in Hum u: OOiiJEJ!! Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me PO-1- 3' 7:30 and 9:20 p.m. uGEggiag The Other Sister TG-13- " 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. lUNjlffll hlillViitil Pushing Tin m "R" John Cusack OneSktv Onfy 7:39 The Mummy TG-13- " AND Never Been Kissed TG-1- 3 OPEN AT 8: 13 p.m. Show Starts at Dusk MOVIE Information Call 722-209- 5 lands they are legally entitled to. Public lands must meet specific criteria to be designated as wilderness study areas. These criteria are that there be no substantial sign of man's work, that parcels not to be less than 5,000 acres of roadless contiguous land, and that the land must provide an outstanding opportunity for solitude or a primitive type of recreation. Originally, the BLM inventory only found 1.9 million Utah acres that qualified as wilderness. However the citizens proposed wilderness" demanded that the government reinventory for more land because they did not believe the BLM really knew and understood what they saw. The key elements that so obviously negate the criteria for wilderness designation are competing resources and roads, said Lekas. We all drove here on a road that is mechanically constructed and maintained. Not only are these obviously roads in uae, they appear on county maps, yet the inventory blatantly ignore this. Lekas pointed out a nearby oil well stake that has been there for over a year. Yet the oil company trim purchased that lease is unable to secure the necessary permits to begin development. The White River unit is one of 158 inventory units targeted in Utah and is located on state school and institutional lands comprising 15,800 acres. The only known gilsonite deposit in tho world is located in this unit as well as the richest oil deposits in the state BASIS STANDARD. Jane 8. Itf- - 1 mi -- fir.; WHAT A WASTE-Short- ly after this site in Ballard at cleaned up. new refuse w as dumped Although the illegal dumping is continuing, law enforcement officials say area residents tuve helped cracked down on the enme by reporting suspicious pickup tracks loaded with litter. of Utah. Bob Christensen, a principal officer for Petro glyph Energy Company says that he has real concerns shout the inability of Congreaa to control bumucraciea, in particular the BLM, who has the responsibility to honor existing rights. In this area, mineral resource are owned by the Ute Tribe and the people ofthe United States. Oil and gas companies lease these minerals for devel opment and the BLM has regulatory jurisdiction which they are abusing." Christensen stated. " Should the outcome ofthe wilderness controversy be leveraged by a single interest at the expense of the 90 percent who live here and have intimate acres to the land?" Herb McHardle, attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance for the Moab District declined to comment other than to say that Uintah County had maintained the road the caravan travrledon for the tour, "just this week." Comments are due to the BLM no later than June 21. The public is invited to attend a letter writing seminar sponsored by the People for the LSAall afternoon at the Western Park, Monday June 7. |