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Show Daly residents voice concern about loss of Poison Creek Now that the roar of flood waters has receded, Daly Avenue residents aren't so . sure that Poison Creek V should be completely har-j har-j nessed and forced under-' under-' ground, j In a surprise presentation at the Aug. 11 City Council meeting, Daly Avenue resident resi-dent De Fisher presented a petition from a number of other residents along the , street asking that the stream be allowed to run through their property and down Daly Avenue. J The petition reads in part: ' "We, the undersigned... , hereby petition the Park City Council to reconsider its decision to completely en-v en-v close Poison Creek in a VV storm sewer, thus destroying destroy-ing what we consider to be one of the most charming amenities of the canyon." City Manager Arlene Loble said that construction should proceed on the storm drain system because flooding flood-ing is expected to recur next spring. "Redesign at this juncture would be time-consuming time-consuming and would hold up construction of the storm drain," she said. On July 19, Park City voters approved by a 51-vote margin a $600,000 flood control bond. Of those funds, $500,000 is expected to go toward the Daly Avenue drainage system. Public hearings were held to discuss the project with Daly Avenue residents prior to the election, according to councilwoman Helen Alvarez. Alvar-ez. "The people at those meetings didn't want a stream," she said. "It seems that all we were hearing was the sound of roaring water," Mayor Jack Green said of the hearings. "The people at those meetings meet-ings said they wanted the water out of their yards... And we acted on it. Maybe we shouldn't have done anything, "he said. Fisher disagreed with the council's assessment of the public hearings. "The people at those meetings didn't understand their options," she said. Daly Avenue residents resi-dents didn't realize at the time of the flooding that they could have both a storm drain and a stream, she said. Another Daly Avenue resident, resi-dent, Jim Layman, asked ... the council to leave open the option of a diversionary stream which could be controlled from the collection collec-tion basin of the drainage system above Daly Avenue. A diversionary stream is still an available option, according to Public Works Director Jerry Gibbs. He said the problem of who would control the flow of the stream arises. The stream option is complicated further, fur-ther, Gibbs said, by property owners who do not want an open channel running through their property. . Daly Avenue residents have to be unanimously in favor of the stream, according accord-ing to Alvarez, because it would have to run across each piece of property. Loble said that the stream will remain an option to Daly Avenue residents on the condition that there is unanimous unan-imous local consent, and the residents bear the financial burden of channeling the stream from the catch basin down Daly Avenue. |
