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Show : $ crceiancsnennts ; cnet tink ait akties ped minenl WASATCH SLOC Wants to'Use Strawberry Reservoir Water For Artificial iice during the 2002 Winter take water from Strawberry Reservoir, oversee it and protect their investment. They might have to have an RV “It's one part of our contingency plan to be 100 percent sure we'll have or something out there for Cy she said. ae King also is waiting to see. whether snow, even if it’s one of Utah’s worst SLOC requests to use a snow additive winters,” that enhances the freezing of water droplets ejected from snowguns. Its use would require a higher level of environmental analysis because of Strawberry’s importance asa drinking said Lyle Nelson, SLOC’s 31 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. At 7,000 feet above sea level, the reservoir is 1,100 feet higher and usually a little colder than Soldier Hollow, where the relatively low elevation can SHAW - Midway’ s 250 West will get ue military treatment in June. Tolman obliged. The project was moved to the top of the list (avoiding the normal three-year wait), due to the urgency of the Games. ~ Now the 115th Engineering Group, based in Draper, is preparing to do the work as a “Community artificial snow, particularly in March when the Paralympics will be held. warm at Strawberry. SLOC ended up cent Enel cts ER SE IPR tC > a Support Project.” Midway City, meanwhile, has agreed to spend roughly $70,000 out of its. Class C fund to cover the endeavor, which is estimated to cost a total of S130, 000. . The city will carve up and haul: away the. old road. before the Guard arrives. In addition, Midway is trying make it work,” Nelson said. The first thing is to submit a proposal to the Forest Service, which has in a combat situation with their M-16s I guess,” said Bronson, who is hoping residents don’t get “too uptight ’ about the spectacle. | } The councilman pointed out ‘the jurisdiction : 7 Email: derek@wasatchcountycourier.com of Strawberry’ S SLOC is looking at making snow in the Chicken Creek West area along lems for a valley steeped in military history and oe to war-game “This isn’t like a war game, it’s a construction game,” he concluded. “And we're the beneficiaries of it.” over use shoreline. Guard presence should not pose probexercises. to make “We'll do what we need to do to “They'll be treatingit as if they’re. sending a dozen truckloads of natural snow to Soldier Hollow from the Chicken Creek parking lot. SLOC also would have to secure water from the reservoir for snowmaking. Richard Tullis, water distriet operations and maintenance manager of the Central Utah Water _Conservancy District, said he has not been contact- Strawberry’s north shore, just off U.S. 40. That area typically 1 is closed during . the winter. eee “We're waiting to see how they pro- would pose to manage the area so it’s not a approached. We do have some water ed yet about SLOC’s needs, but, “We certainly be willing to talk, if hazard, how they’re going to gate it so available in Strawberry. A little bit of ice fishermen water makes a1 lot of snow.” and others don’t go. senna water source. She did not permit use of an additive in-a pilot project last month, which was foiled by the wéather being too result in weather too warm KIRSTEN Heber “They'll have to have: someone to director of the Soldier Hollow venue BY Service’s Games, Olympics organizers hope to turn it into snow and truck it 35 miles to the Soldier Hollow course. PHOTO Forest es District ranger, said. trails on ee King, the try a tary training exercise—complete with full rifle gear and Kevlar helmets. not enough snow for the cross-coun- Nt, nt Sat _to use the community project as a mili- there to recreate and get tan- sa een i A 4 nan the maximum benefit, the Army intends oa -gled up with their equipment,” Julie ntl Boh winter is a tad too warm and there’s n OO pany ws SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ~ If next iynon before the road so it’s a better situa- , tion,” Bronson added. - Once the Guard arrives, Bronson cautioned, people will know it. To get at 2A that road,” Bronson said. The matter was solved quickly, however, after North ran into old _ friend Lt. Col. Dennis Tolman, who grew up in Midway and is now an intelligence officer at the Guard’s State Area Command in Draper. When North asked for the Guard’s help, to raise enough money to install a water line along 250 West before the work commences. _ “We’re going to try to put that in AS COURIER ent te, Meee RESCUE CONTINUED FROM A1 COUNTY rant an APRIL 11, 2001 | aE. * antec PREVIEWS EXCEPTIONAL PROPERTY $690,000 ‘essa a ts a BOON 494 W. Tees nen Oze Maine Townh ome Bee! Nano 9,900 PRICE REDUCED : dines oe ‘9,900 PRICE ad |