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Show State issues dump permit for Three Mile Canyon A number of state and fede'ral agencies are on record as opposing a Three Mile Canyon dump because of its proximity to Rockport Reservoir. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Utah Division of Water Resources arc among those agencies. Summit County received a permit to establish a dump in Brown's Canyon Ca-nyon more than one year ago. However, county officials began considering other sites when a group of Brown's Canyon landowners filed -uit against the county for selecting the site. Y ; . ! .v.; t-J 1 s ' v .. NS. IV --'-5 ,- V 4 f'' ,,. ffs Nk- .' Neal Pilumbo PiSCVbclCk fide Dr Bob Evers takes a cross-country skiing trip with 2-OO 2-OO year-old daughter Erin Saturday morning in Park City. I CHRISTOPHER SMART Record staff writer Despite protests from some state and federal agencies, the Summit County Commission will receive a permit to create a landfill in the canyon ca-nyon just east of Rockport Reservoir. Reser-voir. The State Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste made the decision to issue the permit for Three Mile Canyon Tuesday; according to the bureau's assistant director, Dennis Downs. The permit requires the county to place a clay liner beneath the dump and monitor groundwater in the Three Mile Canyon area on an ongoing ongo-ing basis, Downs said. The landfill permit was issued based on soil data from the canyon that indicates "there would be minimal potential for groundwater contamination." According to the conditions of the permit, if the county detects ground-water ground-water pollution from waste deposited at the landfill, it must "develop corrective action," Downs said. That could include closing the dump. . |
