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<br />Utah,
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<br />VOLUME 2. NUMBER 10
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<br />PUBLISHED EVERY TW-O WEEKS
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<br />Bulk Rate
<br />U.s.Postap
<br />PAID
<br />Salt Lake City. UT
<br />Permit No; 4563
<br />
<br />WEDNESDAY, MAY 11,1983
<br />
<br />
<br />No-permit dam
<br />
<br />Officiau. are UXYrking avertime
<br />to harul/.e the problems created by
<br />the Spanish Fork Canycm mud-
<br />slide slwrt.arcuiting the bureau-
<br />cratic process.
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<br />Inside
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<br />Emigration development
<br />dependent on water
<br />Dereloper seeking cemetery
<br />water rights
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<br />Making septic tanks f100d-
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<br />Making septic tanks
<br />flood-ready
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<br />Page 3
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<br />Watermarket
<br />Classified
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<br />Page 3
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<br />Area Decisions
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<br />Pages 6-11
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<br />Waterhold
<br />Ra ndom notes
<br />Farmer's Almanac
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<br />Page 13
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<br />Waterclock
<br />Calendar of events
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<br />Page 15
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<br />Utah Water Hotline
<br />For information about the
<br />buying or selling pmes of Utah
<br />water call us at 974-8802. Ask
<br />for the Ufah Water Hotline.
<br />
<br />Officials bare new all-Utah Aquatrain.
<br />
<br />Alignment to form center .link in $2 billion system
<br />
<br />At the same time that "Thistle
<br />Lake" is blocking the westbound
<br />coal trains leaving Price, officials of
<br />the federal government and a
<br />private ag-chem company are pre-
<br />senting plans Cor a new type oC"coal
<br />train" to traverse the Wasatch
<br />Mountains Crom a point near Green
<br />River to the Intermountain Power
<br />Project (IPP) near Lynndyl.
<br />Ira McKeever Jr., president of
<br />western mining operations for W.R.
<br />Grace & Co.. and Michael Clinton,
<br />project manager for the Saline
<br />Water Transport and Use Office of
<br />the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
<br />last week announced plans to pur-
<br />sue an all. Utah project which -will
<br />- use a portion oC the corridor now
<br />being studied for the $2 bilUon
<br />Aquatrain coal and saline water
<br />transportation project.
<br />"We are planning to bring saline
<br />water Crom the Price and San
<br />Rafael rivers to the IPP," said
<br />Clinton, "We have been working
<br />with (IPP sponsor) Los Angeles
<br />Power to bring our water and coal to
<br />the plant. They could then exchange
<br />their Sevier basin water rights
<br />north through the Central Utah
<br />Project system, perhaps using
<br />Mona-Nephi Canal. We feel an all.
<br />Utah Aquatrain system on this
<br />alignment could form the center
<br />link in a larger system. ~
<br />
<br />Clinton was referring to earlier
<br />Aquatrain planning that displayed
<br />a continuous pipeline system ex-
<br />tending Crom ~he Big Sandy River
<br />north oC Rock Springs, Wyoming,
<br />through Colorado. Utah, Nevada
<br />and CaliCornia to one or more
<br />Pacific ports in southern California
<br />or Mexico. "We are not making any
<br />radical changes. in the proposed
<br />route, we are just considering build-
<br />
<br />"We are planning
<br />to. bring saline water
<br />from the Price 'and
<br />San Rafael Rivers
<br />~ to the IPP.w
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<br />ing the Utah portion first!'
<br />"We - have a two-step process."
<br />here," added McKeever." "We are
<br />looking_ at a smaller portion that -i&
<br />entirely in Utah. On a broader basis
<br />there is a need to have a portion of
<br />the project commercial and no
<br />longer at risk"
<br />. "Right now we are at the point ot
<br />bringing the local plumbing issues
<br />to bear," continued Clinton.-"At this
<br />point we have not asked anyone at
<br />any level to buy into the project. We
<br />are bringing it out in the publie to
<br />get the public to Cocus on it and get it
<br />
<br />GSL forecast keeps rising too
<br />Weber and Bear at 100 year Ttiphs. lake at 4208.7
<br />
<br />For the fourth time sinc"e Novem-
<br />ber. the National Weather Service
<br />has raised its prediction on how
<br />high the Great Salt Lake will rise
<br />before peaking in June. Dr. Gerald
<br />Williams, hydrologist in charge of
<br />the Weather Service's Colorado
<br />Basin River Forecast Center, said
<br />an increase in the base flow into the
<br />lake during the first two weeks in
<br />April prompted the most recent
<br />revision to 4204.0 feet.
<br />Earlier predictions were 4203.0
<br />in November, 4203.1 at the end of
<br />February, and 4203.45 alter preci.
<br />pitation in March reached three
<br />times the normal in the Salt Lake
<br />and Farminlrton areas, according to
<br />Williams. As of April 29, the lake
<br />level was 4203.7 feet at the boat
<br />harbor. said a U.S. Geologic Survey
<br />spokesperson.
<br />The lake's level generally peaks
<br />about June 1 but because of ground
<br />saturation and snow levels, may not
<br />peak this year until June 80r 9, said
<br />Williams. He did say, however, that
<br />evaporation from the lake may help
<br />maintain the June 1 peak.
<br />Paul Sturm, Great Salt Lake
<br />
<br />geologist tor the Utah Geological
<br />and Mineral Survey. said the 1980
<br />peak was June 20. "We could see
<br />another late peak if the rivers con-
<br />tinue to run as Cull as they are now,"
<br />said Sturm. He says the Jordan,
<br />Weber and Bear rivers are all run-
<br />ning close to lOo-year highs.
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<br />Utah cops 3-A
<br />bond rating
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<br />The state of Utah has received a
<br />Triple A bond rating Crom Stand.
<br />ard and Poor's Corporation. accord-
<br />ing to Kimball Young, bond advisor
<br />to the State Bonding Commission_
<br />The Triple A rating is the highest
<br />given, and only 10 states have
<br />received such a rating this year.
<br />Bond issues will be used for build-
<br />ing construction. new roads and
<br />water and wastewater construction
<br />projects.
<br />Utah officials are awaiting a
<br />second bond rating Crom Moody's. a
<br />New York firm. A Triple A rating
<br />-Crom Moody's could result in a seven
<br />to 7.5 percent borrowing rate and
<br />save the state millions of dollars of
<br />interest.
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