OCR Text |
Show From 14 To 75? Bik&ug: GiveBAMJB Life? By GARY R. BLODGETT Clipper News Editor BOUNTIFUL - Plans for diking and future development of South Davis County's sewer and garbage treatment plants were discussed by the Bountiful City Council last Wednesday night. ELMER V. Barlow, manager of the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD), and member of the board of directors of the South Davis Sewer District treatment plant told the council that "things are looking better" for expansion of these facilities. faci-lities. He said Montgomery Engineering Engineer-ing Company has been hired to make a survey of the facilities and the dangers the plants face because of the rising level of the Great Salt Lake. HE SAID the second phase of a major diking proposal on the east shore of the lake has been approved by the State Legislature at a cost of about $2 million. This phase of the project will include diking of the shoreline from the Rose Park area to Farmington. "Diking of the lake would open up additional property for expansion expan-sion of BARD which would include 1 10 acres of BARD-owned property proper-ty to the north or 80 acres of Bountiful-owned property to the south of the present BARD site," said Mr. Barlow. HE EMPHASIZED that expansion expan-sion of BARD could increase the lifespan of the disposal facility by 50 to 75 years. "The land is available and expansion ex-pansion of the landfill would take care of Bountiful's garbage disposal dispos-al needs for many years," said Mr. Barlow. "There's no reason why state and national environmental standards can't be met just as easily easi-ly as garbage disposed through a burn plant." BOUNTIFUL IS one of three cities in Davis County who declined de-clined to join with the countywide proposal for a garbage burn plant to be built in the Clearfield-Layton area near Hill Air Force Base. Bountiful officials said they chose not to be a part of the burn plant proposal and to dispose of their garbage at least for the time being through landfill as it has done for the pset several years. MR. BARLOW said proponents of the proposed burn plant are using us-ing distorted figures regarding the amount of burnable material available avail-able to the plant. He said proponents propo-nents of the plant estimated 80 percent per-cent of the garbage collected is burnable. "I have found this figure to be much closer to 55 percent and if my figures are accurate, there is no way they can operate a burn plant." Referring to sewage treatment, Mr. Barlow told the council that both Davis County plants need to be expanded at an estimated cost of $2.5 million, or$1.25 million per plant. HE SAID this could be paid for over a four-year period by adding $4 per month per family. After the four years, this increase could be dropped to $2 per month per family for maintenance costs, Mr. Barlow explained. |