Show Storm Sewer Two recent newspaper articles arti arti- articles cles des outlining the plans of the city coun council i to use the Mill fill Creek channel and stream lor for a storm sewer sewer- should be of grave concern to the residents of Bountiful City West Bountiful Bountiful ful South Bountiful BO and portions portions por por- ti ns of North Salt Lake For over years the waters of this clean beautiful stream have bave been used to irrigate the gardens of this area and until recently was one of the major sources of culinary water for Bountiful City ON A NUMBER NUi of occasions in rn the past years of or heavy rains and deep snoWs in the mountains mountains moun moun- Mill Creek has become a torrent in the spring flooding gardens and md homes and causi causing caus caus- i ing mg ig considerable property damage dam dam- age The Bountiful city council now has under study a plan to bring Barton Creek across the bench east cast of the high school and dump this additional water into Mill Creek which can only result in further damage from flooding to all the properties bordering Mill 1 Creek and all its channels in the south end r of of the county Any plans for widening and deepening the channel or altering altering altering alter alter- ing the normal character of the stream in an any manner would not be a acceptable to those adjoining adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining property owners who are also owners of the stream 1 bed Bountiful City could be li liable liable li- li able for endless law suits and damage claims if this plan ma ma- TilE THE RECENT decision of the Bountiful city council to al allow allow al- al I aI-I low a local home builder to dump the runoff waste waters via storm sewers planned from his acre subdivision south of the UlO Mueller lueller Park road into the Mill Creek stream presents an even greater hazard to the residents of Bountiful and adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining communities to the south One may well weIl wonder what authority prompted the decision As endless miles of new and homes are constructed constructed constructed con con- on the bench the problems problems lems will multiply when storm sewers deliver additional runoff runoff run run- off water into Mill Creek The flooding trouble will be greatly increased west of oC Orchard Drive and the beauty value and usefulness of the stream lost forever if Mill Creek is allowed to become polluted with wastes from the upper bench AND BY TilE THE wa way isn't stream pollution prohibited by bylaw bylaw bylaw law in Utah A stream carrying carrying carry carry- ing oil gasoline salt tar garbage garbage garbage gar gar- bage and miscellaneous rubbish rubbish rubbish rub rub- bish from city streets is not a avery avery avery very pretty sight Citizens living living living liv liv- ing near and others using this contaminated water are certain to protest Again more damage damage damage dam dam- age claims and legal squabbles for the city fathers I Undoubted Undoubtedly I Bountiful City needs storm sewers and the problem will become more acute as the city expands east cast and up into the hills but the use of Mill Creek for a storm sewer just doesn't appear to be bethe bethe bethe the right answer and from here hereit it appears that the city council had better reverse itself again Ra Ray Kirkland |