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Show Commissioners Approve Davis Plan For Floods ments. Once it has passed the COG, it will be forwarded to the county commission for final fin-al approval. THOUGH THE Flood Control Con-trol Committee approved the policy "in principal" Mr. Williams Wil-liams said the policy would probably go through some "polishing" before being presented pre-sented to the COG and County Commission. Two flood control projects were discussed in the committee commit-tee meeting. Both projects are slated to begin within the next four weeks. THE FIRST is a 2.300 foot draining line that w ill be built to serve Clinton and West Point. The project will cost approximately $65,000 to be split between the counties and cities. Another project calls for a culvert to be built in Woods Cross. The $30,000 project is a precautionary step to prevent flooding near a private airport. OTHER projects include turning a four-acre county owned lot into a holding pond and city park in North Salt Lake. "IN RAINSTORMS like we had last month we want to use a little common sense in emergencies," said a Flood control committee member. While some county residents resi-dents have complained about the controls limiting modifications modifica-tions of natural water ways, an Emergency Services official pointed out that the water ways adequately handled last month's record rains without any problem. The rains were even worse than the weather that decimated Davis County in the 1930's with massive flooding. ONE OF the problems the committee had with the plan was defining what constituted a major water way, said Rolf Williams, a committee member. mem-ber. Major water ways were designated with the help of a study desiminated by the county Water Quality Planning Plan-ning Council. Mr. Williams emphasized the program was just policy and not an ordinance. Being designated a policy gives the committee more leniency in dealing with the plan, he explained. ex-plained. "TO, IF it was an ordinance we would not be able to amend it," Mr. Williams pointed out. The policy is currently under review by the county attorney, Mr. Williams said. Once it is approved by the attorney, it will be presented to the Council of Governments in their next meeting. The COG consists of representatives of the individual city govern- By CLINT WARDLOW FARMINGTON -- The massive flooding that struck Utah last month leaving many residents homeless emphasized empha-sized the need for an effective flood control plan around the state. DAVIS County officials have approved in principal what they hope will become an effective flood control plan policy for the county. The flood control master plan policy deals mainly with main water ways that flood waters wa-ters would pass through. The flood policy prohibits "unauthorized "unau-thorized channel modifications" modifica-tions" such as home built diversions, di-versions, or other diversions of water run off from main water wa-ter ways unless approved by the city and county. THE REASON for limiting such modifications an official for disaster preparedness said is to prevent flooding that such diversions could cause. While the home-built diversion might solve one property owners, flooding problem, it could serve to escalate another owner's own-er's problems with flood waters. wa-ters. The flood control master plan policy which was begun six months ago, would split the money needed to build flood control impliments with the various cities in th county. The city would have to show they have 50 percent of the total estimated cost of a control pro-ject pro-ject "budgeted and in reserve,,' re-serve,,' before the county would match funds with the city. THE PLAN was unanimously unanimous-ly approved by the Flood Control Con-trol Committee during a regular regu-lar meeting last week, but the committee will not be totally . controlled by the plan. The Flood Control Committee Commit-tee has the right to vary from the plan when "unusual circumstances cir-cumstances dictate." |