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Show :. Inr " 4,isS n - I t 't ,? '1"'- ' t i 4 'l -'TtrL. Y iMr,- r ; 'v Thirty-three inch concrete storm pipe sections are lined up along Daly Avenue. The drain should be completed by the end of October. Daly drain work begins Although the City Council just last week okayed the underwriting of the Daly Avenue storm sewer bond, one hundred feet of the 33-inch diameter pipe has already been laid. On July 19 of this year, Park City voters approved a special $600,000 flood control bond by a 51-vote margin. Five hundred thousand dollars of those funds have been set aside for the Daly system and repair of Daly Avenue. The remaining $100,000 will be spent for flood control on lower Ontario Canyon, Prospector Square, Thaynes Canyon and Park Meadows. The flood bond was underwritten by Prudential-Bache, a national brokerage broker-age firm. The bonds, however, were sold in Utah with Park City residents getting first crack at the general obligation bonds which will average a 9V4 percent return. Interest on the bonds is tax exempt. According to Prudential-Bache, all $600,000 of the "citizen" bonds have already been sold within the state.$ According to Park City Public Works Director Jerry Gibbs, the Daly drain system should be complete by the end of October. Gibbs said that with any luck the road will also be repaved this fall. Completion of the drain, however, is more pressing, he said, because it should be in place in time for the spring run-off. With ground water at exceedingly high levels after the wet spring and summer, flooding is expected again next spring. Gibbs said that up to this point, construction on the drain has centered on moving gas and electric lines as well as the culinary water lines. He said that drain pipe will be 24 inches underground, which is not sufficient for the culinary water lines. In some cases the water lines have to be looped under the storm drain, he said. The 2,500 foot Daly Avenue drain pipe begins above Daly Avenue and will discharge into Poison Creek on the north side of Hillside. In a last-minute effort that might have delayed the project, a group of Daly Avenue residents presented a petition to the City Council on Aug. 11 asking that tne drain system not completely enclose Poison Creek. The petitioners maintained that enclosing the creek completely would alter the aesthetic value of Empire Canyon. Not all Daly Avenue residents, however, signed the petition. Gibbs said the storm sewer would not preclude part of Poison Creek from running down Daly Avenue. He said modification of the debris basin, where the drain begins above Daly Avenue, would allow for flow outside the system. The expense of rechanneling the creek bed would have to be borne by Daly Avenue residents, according to City Manager Arlene Loble, and not be financed by the bond. Heavy runoff and spring flooding forced Poison Creek out of its banks in the second week of June this year. City officials maintain that the extensive washout would require rechanneling and creek bed repair. |