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Show 5 mms mmm Projectls OCT By ROSELYN KIRK FARMINGTON - Five storm control projects, totaling to-taling about $500,000, have been approved by the Davis County storm control committee com-mittee or are reaching final approval stages, according to County Surveyor Glenn Austin, Aus-tin, a member of the committee. com-mittee. MR. AUSTIN said that additional ad-ditional projects being considered con-sidered for funding would total to-tal about $600,000. Nearly $1 million in funding will be available to the county By the end of the year through a two mill property tax levy assessed as-sessed by the county in 1977. The money has not been spent until this year when the county and cities developed priorities and set up the committee com-mittee to evaluate storm control con-trol needs. ACCORDING to Mr. Austin, ' the mill levy assessment will be a continual tax. As the county continues to expand, storm drainage problems will continue to grow, he said. County Attorney Milton J. Hess explained that even when completed, the cost of maintaining the storm control system will be extensive. TWO STORM control projects are currently under construction at 500 South in West Bountiful and 2600 South in Bountiful. The West Bountiful project will cost $13,000 for installation installa-tion of pipe supplied by Phillips Petroleum. The 2600 South project is being built by Whitaker Construction Company Com-pany at a cost of $1 15,000. THE COUNTY has estimated estimat-ed the cost of the project at 400 North and 200 West in Bountiful at $112,000, Mr. Austin said. That project has not been bid since the Utah Department Depart-ment of Transportation is picking up the cost on naif of the project. The county had approved the project and has the plans and specifications ready to go to bid, Mr. Austin said. Bids have been awarded on another storm water project in Clearfield where 1710 feet of concrete pipe will be installed in-stalled on the south side of Antelope Drive and connect to the Layton storm drain system. sys-tem. Claude Nix Construction Company was awarded that bid two weeks ago for $28,670. THE FIFTH project planned is a piping and reservoir project in Clinton, which will cost about $187,000, Mr. Austin said. The county has approved the project in concept, but final plans have not been approved or the bid let. Other projects under consideration, con-sideration, but not approved are a storm water control on Lindsay Drive which would be tied into a detention pond near Fairfield Drive in Lay-ton. Lay-ton. RIGHT OF way problems have not been resolved. Mr. Austin said the county is also negotiating for the construction construc-tion of a retention pond which would contain the south fork of Holmes Creek. An additional project, es timated to cost about $130,000 has been proposed by Kays-ville Kays-ville and Fruit Heights to control flooding on Bair Creek. THE FLOOD control committee-made up of the three Davis County Commissioners, Mr. Austin and engineers Gene Nielsen and Rolf Nelson, Nel-son, have asked Kaysville and Fruit Heights officials to present formal plans for that project. The committee meets monthly to make decisions on storm water priorities, which must be let for bids by the county commission. |
