Program Readies to Close 200 Abandoned Mines at Gold Hill
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FRONT PAGE A1FRONT PAGE A1 Passion for woodworking See A8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 TUESDAY January 17, 2017 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 66 $1.00 Program readies to close 200 Wendover TOOELE COUNTY Grantsville Tooele abandoned mines at Gold Hill Stockton MARK WATSON remote southwest corner of Land Management, and Utah rebar grates,” Rohrer said. STAFF WRITER Tooele County this spring. School and Institutional Trust “Over the years there have Area of mine closures Exploring abandoned mines The land is known as the Lands Administration, and been several accidents nation- sounds adventurous, but it can Clifton Hills area and covers private holdings, according to wide involving open mines Gold Hill Dugway also be deadly. 29,485 acres or 46 square AMR project manager Chris since our program started in For that reason, the Utah miles. Most of the mine shafts Rohrer. 1982,” he added. “Nationwide, Vernon Division of Oil, Gas and Mining are shallow at 20- to 60-feet “We are coordinating with there have been 11 fatalities Ibapah Abandoned Mine Reclamation deep. landowners to select accept- since 1982 and several injuries. DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS (AMR) program plans to close The mines are located on able methods including back- Callao 200 mine openings in the lands owned by the Bureau of filling, masonry walls and SEE MINES PAGE A10 ➤ Facility ready for new role in helping the homeless TIM GILLIE that was providing the money STAFF WRITER to operate the facility ended,” It’s been empty for 18 he said. “And we could not months, but Tooele County’s access other HUD funding former transitional housing because the original grant to facility is ready for tenants buy the housing restricted the again, a county official says. kind of people that could stay The last occupants moved in the facility.” out of the housing facility on The transitional housing East Vine Street in Tooele City facility opened in November in June 2015. 2011 after Tooele County That’s when federal regu- bought the home from for- lations tied up funding for mer Tooele City Councilman operating the housing facil- John Hansen in April 2011 ity, according to Tooele with $458,570 in HUD grant County Commissioner Myron money. Bateman. The 6,796-square-foot “The original HUD [U.S. home, once the company hos- Department of Housing and Urban Development] program SEE HOMELESS PAGE A7 ➤ FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Grantsville City Police Chief Kevin Turner will retire in early February and become the new chief of police for Ferndale, Washington. He became Grantsville’s police chief in June 2012. Chief Turner to retire and looks to new job in Washington state STEVE HOWE start date of Feb. 6. “It was a little bit tough at first STAFF WRITER During his time at the head of the because I didn’t realize how behind the After nearly five years with the department, Turner oversaw a number times Grantsville was when I started,” Grantsville City Police Department, of significant changes, including an Turner said. “They were still using Chief Kevin Turner will retire at the update to 21st-century technology. typewriters.” beginning of February. When he became chief in June 2012, The department had purchased Turner will next serve as the chief of the department was still using filing computers and a record management FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO police in Ferndale, Washington, follow- cabinets and index cards in its record- After an 18-month delay, the county’s transitional housing facility on Vine ing his retirement, with an expected keeping system. SEE TURNER PAGE A10 ➤ Street in Tooele City will reopen. SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 7:49 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Thursday 7:49 a.m. 5:32 p.m. Friday 7:48 a.m. 5:33 p.m. Saturday 7:47 a.m. 5:34 p.m. Sunday 7:47 a.m. 5:35 p.m. Monday 7:46 a.m. 5:36 p.m. Midvalley Hwy., SR-201 make priority list W Th F Sa Su M Tu Tuesday 7:45 a.m. 5:38 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday none 11:29 a.m. TIM GILLIE tion this year,”protection. he0-2 Low;said 3-5 during Moderate; 6-7a High; 8-10projects. “This is what we are looking Thursday 12:21 a.m. 11:59 a.m. STAFF WRITER town hallVery meeting High; 11+ Extreme last Thursday Contrary to Gov. Gary at,” Sagers said. “The state will Friday 1:18 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Tooele County commuters may at Tooele Applied Technology Herbert’s recommendation to not bond for $250 million this year Saturday 2:14 a.m. 1:03 p.m. ALMANAC Sunday 3:10 a.m. 1:38 p.m. want to keep an eye on the state College. “BothStatistics for projects the week ending have Jan. risen16. incur additional debt at this time, and another $250 million next Cloudy with snow A little snow in the Cloudy most of the Intervals of clouds and Monday 4:04 a.m. 2:18 p.m. Mostly cloudy Periods of snow Legislature this year. A little snow atto times the topTemperatures of UDOT’s pending Sagers said the Legislature is year. We don’t want to identify Tuesday 4:57 a.m. 3:02 p.m. tapering off, 4-8” afternoon time sunshine 2017 may the year that two project list.”High/Low past week 48/16prepared to authorize bonds for the projects. We want UDOT to Last New First Full major transportation projects Rep. DougNormal Sagers, high/low past R-Tooele, week 39/22essential transportation projects. identify the projects. If UDOT 35 26 36 27 35 27 33 16 35 26 35 18 33 17 Average temp past week 30.0 for Tooele County finally move who alsoNormal spoke average at the temp town past week hall 30.6 If the Legislature approves selects the projects then politics TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERforward, according to Sen. Daniel meeting, Dailysaid Temperatures that the Midvalley High Lowbonding for transportation proj- are avoided, with Midvalley #1 Jan 19 Jan 27 Feb 3 Feb 10 Shown is Wednesday’s Thatcher, R-West Valley City. Highway was the number ects, the Midvalley Highway will on the priority list it will be fund- Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and “The Midvalley Highway and one project on UDOT’s pend- be funded, as long as UDOT is ed this year.” SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 the SR-201 extension into Tooele ing project list, following the allowed to follow its priority list, Wednesday night’s lows. Sen. Daniel Thatcher shows the SafeUT app during his town ➤ County are gaining some trac- department’s objective analysis of according to Sagers. SEE MIDVALLEY PAGE A7 hall meeting Thursday night. UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B4 Grouse 28/14 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 27/24 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 28/22 30/23 31/23 35/26 Ogden Stansbury Park Stallion wrestlers Tooele girls beat HOMETOWN A8 33/21 Erda 35/26 OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 34/26 Pine Canyon prevail Park City Salt Lake City 23/7 35/27 33/23 0.28 0.30 1.44 0.73 1.44 0.73 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 36/24 Bauer See B1 See B1 35/26 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 35/26 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 35/26 23/8 34/22 See Stockton Snowfall (in inches) Price complete 35/26 32/15 Nephi forecast Rush Valley 35/22 33/25 Ophir on A7 34/24 Delta Manti 36/25 38/22 1.5 12.5 38.5 Green River Last Month Season 40/18 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 34/25 42/24 Moab 30/24 SNOWPACK Hanksville 41/23 Beaver 40/21 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 41/22 Ibapah 33/23 35/27 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Monday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Snowcover 14.0 13.1 9.2 St. George 43/27 42/24 Average 9.8 7.3 4.9 51/38 Kanab 47/28 Eureka Percent of average 143% 179% 188% 33/23 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY January 17, 2017 Area hospital is seeing more emergency room patients MARK WATSON “We see the exact same Lean Six Sigma program, a STAFF WRITER thing with a greater number methodology that relies on Emergency visits at of patients,” said Joe Carnell, a collaborative team effort Mountain West Medical ambulance service direc- to improve performance by Center jumped by more than tor for MWMC. “But we’ve systematically removing waste 1,500 visits in 2016 compared also noticed more and more in the emergency medical to 2015, according to hospital patients going directly to the process. administrators. ER department.” Prime time for emergencies “Over the past year, our The emergency staff con- is from noon to 8 p.m. daily. emergency numbers have sists of several departments at grown from 40 to 45 a day in the hospital such as registra- “Sometime we get started one year,” said Scott Rounds, tion, cardio pulmonary, lab a little earlier than that at 10 emergency department direc- services, radiology, pharmacy a.m.,” Rounds said.