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Show Barnard Creek runoff studied By GARY R. BLODGETT News Editor CENTERVILLE -- It's only February and already Centerville City Council is "up to their pockets" pock-ets" in problems dealing with the potential heavy spring runoff. THE COUNCIL spent more than 30 minites reviewing expansion plans for Barnard Creek before tabling the issue until the council's next work session March 4. This meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the council chambers of City Hall. Council members were shown a video of the area being served by Barnard Creek drainage south of 1200 North from the east bench to the Frontage Road. SID SMITH, Davis County Flood Control Director, and City Engineer Fred Campbell told the council that "it appears now that more water will have to be diverted down Barnard Street if the cunoff this spring is comparable to the Spring of 1983." -Previously, residents along Barnard Bar-nard Street were told that surplus oyer 100 cubic feet per second would be diverted down the concrete con-crete street. Now the proposal is to dump any surplus water over 50 cubic feet per second down the street noting that Barnard Creek channel probably could not hold 100 cfs without overflowing. . WHAT EVER water is released down Barnard Street will be gathered into an enlarged catch basin on the east side of Main Street and pass through an underground under-ground culvert to a large debris and holding basin behind (west of) J. P. Stewart Elementary School. This basin -- about two or three feet deep but covering more than three acres would hold the surplus sur-plus water. Any excess water would overflow in the southwest corner of the holding pond and flow down an open channel to the 400 West storm drain system. ALSO, EXCESS water from Barnard Bar-nard Street will be collected in a grassy swale north of the school before flow ing into the large collection collec-tion basin, it was explained. Continued on page two Barnard Creek runoff studied Continued from page one Water coming down Barnard Creek, which is a couple of blocks south of Barnard Street, will flow at an angle to Main Street and then north on the west side of Main a point just south of the school. The channel then extends west to 400 West. COUNCILMAN MIKE Kjar challenged the proposed storm drain expansion as "being inconclusive incon-clusive and not meeting the standards stan-dards of the city's master flood control plan." The project, if approved, is expected ex-pected to cost an estimated $260,000 with funding to come from the State Disaster Fund, State Highway Department, Davis County Flood Control , and Center-ville Center-ville City. |