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Show o ' A community paper serving the people of the west portion of Salt Lake City July 2001 Name Your Newspaper - Issue #2 page 1 Quarterly Publication ~The J ordan River- Heart of the West-Side Part = of Il by Edie Trimmer and Charlotte Fife-Jepperson ong before focused on participation in the state's annual Earth Day clean-up _— projects, which involved approximately 300 to any people = inhabited ‘the Salt Lake Valley, the Jordan River was flowing through the center of it. Years later, the river is 600 volunteers. still here - a witness to the changes that have occurred over time.. Other associations Fred has had with the It has played an integral part in the city's his- river include: tory and has left a lasting impression on many people's lives. The following are interviews with three people veying the Jordan River Narrows for a who have hypothetical dam site, as a partial fulfillment of the lived near the resident, Fred Fife, spent his adoles- cent years just a few blocks away from the Jordan River. He attended Jordan Junior High in the early 1950s, when the school was noted as one of the most beautiful junior high campuses west of the Mississippi! The most prominent feature of that campus was the presence of the Jordan’ River, meandering through the front yard of the school, complete with footbridge, pathways, and a beautiful rock wall. — This early Council. The Parkway Authority was established for the implementation of acquaintance with the river Basin area, Fred was intro- the Jordan River floodwayparkway master plan, which dealt with beautification, recreation, and flood control. He continued his involvement over the years, particularly with the "Friends of the Jordan duced to the Provo River". organization sparked in Fred a life-long respect for its value and beauty. In the early 1970s, shortly after moving permanently to the lower Jordan River Jordan which University of Utah, 2) involvement with Neighborhood Housing Services in the mid 1980's as (see JR Part Il page4) Community Alert - Trains Coming to 900 South River Parkway Authority through his affiliation with he helped’spearhead in 1991. the ion Pacific proposes the Friends of the Jordan River ../ to reactivate the 900 West Side Community For over ten years, City Asks Residents to Conserve Water By Stephanie Duer requirements for his civil engineering degree at the river and who recognize its inherent value. Poplar Grove 1) sur- South railroad tracks through the. Poplar Grove and Glendale communities. This would bring a minimum of 6 to 9 long haul freight trains a day through our residential neighborhoods. Freight trains proposed for the line would be coal trains and inter modal Where household is wasting as much _ iving in an arid climate, will we find new sources of as 125 to 150 gallons of water 4water is something we cannot take for granted. With water to take us into a future that is as prosperous as our water when the gutters, on rainy or by watering than neces- freight trains, with some trains up to a mile and a quarter in But mostly, we waste was the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), which is dren and ourselves? rains, it is even more impor- a day. We waste we let it run down when we water past has been? There are windy days, or answers to these questions that involve new technologies | our lawns more tant than ever that we make and below-average and snow below-average packs spring costly additions to our sary. water when we do not make conscious choices about how we use our water. Salt Lake City Public Utilities is asking everyone- wise choices about how we use this precious and limited resource. Salt Lake City is growing rapidly, both in its resident infrastructure. But there is one thing we can do right now, starting today, that will increase our supply of water. Starting today, we can stop population and as an industrial and commercial center. But residents, business, industry, wasting water. and the public sector-to save A water shortage is not inevitable. Based on water use - 20 percent of the water that this being used outside. We reports, Salt Lake City Public with that growth there will be an increased demand on existing infrastructures-such as reservoirs, canals, and dams- that deliver water. New sources for water will become increasingly difficult to obtain and expensive to deliver. How will we ensure that we have an adequate supply of high quality water for our chil- Utilities has estimated that the are asking that everyone save the water we are not using-to stop wasting our precious approximately 250 to 300 galresource. lons of water outside per day.™ Here are some simple University of Utah Extension specialists estimate that we. things we can do to stop waste as much as 50 percent wasting water. If we all fol- average household uses of all the water we use ouf-. side. That means that each West Side Stories In Your Opinion Louise Gardens Dog gone it! Page 2 Page 3 (see Water page 4) length. The catalyst for the proposed reactivation of the line the organizing committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics to be held in Salt Lake City in February 2002. The SLOC reportedly wants to remove as many trains from the downtown area as possible and is pushing to get this project completed before the Olympics. However, once Union Pacific has made the investments to reactivate the 900 South rail line, they would continue to route freight along 900 South even after the (see Trains page 4) In The Grove Happenings ~PGCC Section Page 6 ‘Community Events and Resources Page 7 |
