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Show The OGDEN June 15, 2002 VALLEY NEWS PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Improvements to the North Ogden Divide Begin Inside This Issue: Valley Resident Publishes Cookbook Page 4 By Shanna Francis Pet Show Winner at Your Library Page 5 Ogden Valley News Isn’t Montessori the New Italian Restaurant in Town? Page 6 Farmers Protect Water Supplies and Wildlife Through Conservation Page 7 Annual High Valley Shootout Page 8 Summer Stuff to Do at Your Library Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Announcements Page 10 Valley Youth Named Weber Valedictorian Page 11 Changing Faces at Valley Schools Page 11 Public Notice Resolution of Intent for Annexation Page 12 Mr. Dave Jenkins, the science guy at Snowcrest Junior High. Mr. Jenkins has been hired by the district to run the Environmental Center in North Fork Park. See page 11 for the article. Proposed Schedule Announced for Spillway and Embankment Modification of Pineview Dam Compiled by Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Ogden Valley Freedom Run Page 12 Hooked on Books Page 13 Ogden Valley - Weber High School Honor Roll Students Page 13 Early Settlers in Huntsville Page 14 Classifieds Page 15 The Bureau of Reclamation has established proposed dates for Safety of Dams program work to begin at Pineview Dam near Ogden, Utah. The work will focus on spillway and embankment modification. Scheduled dates are as follows: July 1, 2002 - The latest date spillway construction will begin January 15, 2003 - Date of most substantial spillway completion Spring 2003 - Anticipated time period embankment construction will begin It is anticipated that State Highway 162, which runs across the top of Pineview Dam, will be closed to traffic from mid-July 2002 through mid-October 2002 during the construction phase. Pineview Dam is located in the Ogden River Canyon about seven miles east of Ogden, Utah. The dam is a zoned earthfill structure. It was originally constructed to a structural height of 103 feet, forming a reservoir of 44,170 acre-feet capacity. The capacity of the reservoir was later enlarged to 110,150 acre-feet by increasing the structural height of the dam to 137 feet as part of the Weber Basin Project. Water from the reservoir provides supplemental irrigation supply to almost 25,000 acres of land and municipal and industrial water for the city of Ogden. Project features include Pineview Dam and Reservoir, Ogden Canyon Conduit, Ogden-Brigham Canal, South Ogden Highline Canal, and the gravity-pressure distribution system constructed for the South Ogden Conservation District. The Safety of Dams Act, passed in 1978 and amended in 1984, is intended to ensure that Reclamation structures do not present unacceptable risks to public safety, property or welfare. This requires the identification of structures that pose unacceptable risks, and taking corrective actions to reduce or eliminate those risks in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The proposed work at Pineview Dam PINEVIEW cont. on page 3 Work on the North Ogden Divide will begin this summer, and will take about a year to complete. The road will periodically be closed during this time. According to Weber County Engineer Curtis Christensen, the road closures are expected in July and August, but he hopes that the Divide will remain open when construction on Pineview Dam closes Highway 162 across the spillway. According to studies on the Divide, an average of 1,200 cars traverse the narrow, winding road each day. Many of those cars are filled with high school students from the Valley who take the route to Weber High each day in all kinds of weather conditions. Improvements to the roadway will include the replacement and installation of about 3,670 feet of guardrail, and approximately 1,435 feet of concrete barriers. Several drainage culverts will be installed or replaced to control erosion and to maintain roadside drainages. Regulatory and advisory signs will be placed to conform to current safety standards, and there will also be some shoulder widening, slope cutting to improve sight distance, and structural repairs to improve the overall safety of the road. Towards the bottom, Chicken Creek Culvert will be replaced when the hairpin curve is straightened by shifting the centerline of the roadway approximately 70 feet to the east. Improvements to the road are budgeted at $2.5 million. A grant from the federal government will cover $2 million of the costs, with the county funding the remaining amount. Justices to Weigh Weber County Land Deal By Elizabeth Neff, The Salt Lake Tribune Ogden Valley residents angered by the sale of a 160-acre mountain park to an exfootball star without public notice asked Utah’s highest court Tuesday [June 4] to nullify the purchase. Filed by five men who had enjoyed hiking and horseback riding on the land for years, the appeal places a question with wide implications before the justices: Just how and when must counties give their residents notice before selling public land? Weber County commissioners sold the property, located just outside Ogden near Powder Mountain Ski Resort, to former Denver Broncos defensive lineman Rulon Jones in 1997 without pubic notice or an appraisal. Jones bought the land for $200 per acre. The plaintiffs argue the land was worth 10 times as much. “It’s a tragic loss to the public. This LAND DEAL cont. on page 3 |