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Show JPG doesn't need CUP water J i; City Engineer Lee Wimmer told tie Pleasant Grove City Council last Wednesday night that in his professional opinion the city would sever need to use treated CUP water lomeet the needs of the city. , Mayor David Holdaway asked the engineer to state his opinion as the 1 matter ofttimes comes up at meetings of the Timpanogos Water 1 Management Agency. ; Wimmer stated that the studies hich he has done as recently as one year ago show that the city will n ot j d to use the CUP water. He said it J is much cheaper to convert irrigation (tares to culinary water. ' The city requires all developers to ton over a sufficient number of -. water shares on each development or o equivalent amount of money to cover water needs. 'The council determined that a flood control permit form has been tdopted by the city. Fees will be set a council member, community ( development director and city igineer on an individual basis. J j The city has agreed to a $30 per Jonth allowance for uniforms and V of the uniforms for city water tod streets department employees. The city previously allotted $20 per man per month but the departments were not satisfied with the service and prefer to buy their own uniforms and care for them themselves. Lynn Zufelt, city mechanic, met with the council to discuss his responsibilities in keeping with the council's policy of taking with a different department head each month. He said his largest responsibility is to keep costs down and keep things running. The mayor commented on the fact that the city has some "antiques" to work with to which Mr. Zufelt readily agreed. He noted that the city shop's roof is in such bad shape it hardly serves any purpose at all. He pointed out that there is no sense in putting money into fixing the inside of the shop until the roof is fixed. Zufelt explained that if the shop was fixed up so that they could do all the work on citv vehicles there it would soon pay for itself. He told the council that when it rains the floor in the shop is wet and the washroom facilities are inadequate. (Continued on page 2) o'GUP (Continued from page 1) 30,000 "and the Master Plan for the city indicates that's as big as we can grow, anyway," said the mayor. They approached CUP in the spring asking for a study. Mayor Tassainger said the CUP board indicated at that time that if things were right they would put a treatment plant in that area. Tassainger says the study has still not been done by the CUP and they indicated to him, if they did put the plant in, it would be seven years at best before they could expect it to be completed time the mayor does not feel they have in finding a better way of treating their water. The Payson mayor also indicated that buying CUP water would cost them at least four times as much as they are now paying "at the best estimate and it's snowballing. We don't know, they don't even know what it will be in the future," he said. Tassainger said he feels the CUWCD board members are representing their own desires and haven't really touched base with the cities at all. "We want to join forces with the north Utah County mayors and represent what the people want and need," said Tassainger. "A monster has been created that could run over everyone," he said. Mayor McMillan told the group that Lindon had been negotiating with the CUWCD recently for treatment of their water and that entity had asked for a fourfold increase in cost over what the city now pays. "And that's only the beginning," said Ferguson. The mayors and commissioners sharpened their weapons and together set up a plan to recruit fresh troops in the struggle for water control. The group will be extending an invitation to all government heads in Utah County to attend a presentation Nov. 20 on what is now happening and what future plans are for water use in Utah County. TPWMA members also made a decision to engage a full-time attorney at-torney to represent them in legal action against the CUWCD. Orem city is in a rather precarious position and joining the TPWMA would probably not be to their advantage ad-vantage at this time. Mayor DeLance Squire said their unique position stems from the fact that they are the only community in the area that has signed an agreement to take water from CUP. "The contract k ML negotiationgoncSa, eryn31 t veexrnsivef0r,,nec However, Mayor 6 "We would be veX iJ,, in many of thelS Mfyor Fergus ! send out notice to governments witl?n , J "It's time we W , District know h N watching them.Xv there .s a growing see what they're SI? aJ accountable for it ndho COG members V S commg CUP board mSd Richan added rtKfV for county-wide invXm said, "It will cos1; SS "There are two milkS1 your cities each year f ! the commissioner "mlh is going to pay for Dr7 yr its going to Sn 7kl from 40-50 million dollars Richan explains thatlS present assessing al 1 Utah County whoVv r, mills (which JJJ million dollars per I '?4' County) to pay for the S1" The contention is whethwiL of Utah County reap th that investment P ""H |