FRONT PAGE A1 TOOELE RANSCRIPT School T celebrates Dr. Seuss’ birthday SERVING TOOELE COUNTY See A10 BULLETIN SINCE 1894 THURSDAY March 3, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 122 No. 80 $1.00 Tooele seeks bond option to help pay settlement by Tim Gillie In 2014, Tooele City settled STAFF WRITER a 12-year-old legal battle with Overlake. In the settlement, Tooele City leaders want the Tooele City agreed to pay Tooele option to take out a bond to pay Associates and Perry Homes no off a court settlement. But they don’t plan to raise taxes to pay off the bond, accord- SEE BOND PAGE A6 ➤ ing to Tooele City Mayor Patrick Dunlavy. At the request of Tooele City officials, Rep. Doug Sagers, D- Tooele, introduced a bill last week at the Utah Legislature that would allow the state’s political subdivisions to bond for pay- ment of any claim, settlement or judgment in excess of $3 mil- lion. If Sagers’ bill, House Bill 428, is approved by the Legislature, Tooele City will look at the option of bonding to pay off its out-of- February storms dropped little water court settlement with the devel- opers of Overlake, according to by Jessica Henrie Dunlavy. Doug Sagers STAFF WRITER After three months of above- average precipitation, February storms left less water than usual for Tooele City. Ned Bevan, a cooperative weather observer for the National Weather Service, recorded 0.9 Army looks for inches of total precipitation in the city last month. Normally, Tooele receives 1.33 inches of precipitation in February. public comment The precipitation brings the city to a total 7.52 inches so far this water year. Normal for this point in the water year is 7.38 on TEAD cleanup inches, Bevan said. Water years begin Oct. 1 and end Sept. 30. by Steve Howe mid-1990s. In 1991, the Army was Less snow also fell last month. STAFF WRITER required to clean up 40 of those In Tooele City, Bevan recorded 8.5 sites; the remaining 17 were han- inches of snow. Normal snowfall The U.S. Army is taking pub- dled and investigated under the for February is 14.1 inches. lic comment through the end of Comprehensive Environmental The snowpack totals fell at each the month on its plans to clean Response, Compensation and snow telemetry site in the moun- up five former munition disposal Liability Act, better known as tains above Tooele and Rush val- FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTOS sites at Tooele Army Depot. Superfund. leys, said Randy Julander, Utah Despite a dry February, the Oquirrh The plans call for remedia- More than 600 acres will be Snow Survey supervisor. Mountains (top) still had above- aver- tion at five spots, located in and affected by the Army’s cleanup age snowpack. Warmer temperatures “February was warm and very around the depot’s boundar- effort on the five sites, which have begun to melt the snowpack dry. We did not get much snow ies, with significant contamina- include former munition burn in the Stansbury Mountains, feeding accumulation,” he said. tion from leftover munitions, pits, deactivation furnaces and a stream in South Willow Canyon However, above-average pre- the result of previous missions open burn sites. The locations (above). The U.S. Drought Monitor cipitation recorded in November, where hazardous materials were were used to dispose of every- (left) continues to rate the majority December and January provided released. thing from mortars, rockets and of Tooele County as a D2 or “severe” a base of above-average snow- All told, there were originally bombs to furnace ash, small drought area. Orange refers to D2 pack. drought, tan refers to D1 or “moder- 57 sites identified as being in arms and bullets. COURTESY OF THE U.S. “While these numbers are DROUGHT MONITOR ate” drought and yellow refers to D0 need of remediation by inves- or “abnormally dry.” tigations from the late 1970s to SEE ARMY PAGE A12 ➤ SEE STORMS PAGE A9 ➤ SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Friday 6:58 a.m. 6:24 p.m. Saturday 6:56 a.m. 6:25 p.m. Sunday 6:55 a.m. 6:26 p.m. Monday 6:53 a.m. 6:28 p.m. Tuesday 6:52 a.m. 6:29 p.m. Wednesday 6:50 a.m. 6:30 p.m. F Sa Su M Tu W Th Thursday 6:48 a.m. 6:31 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin City wastewater system is in ‘great shape’ Friday 3:40 a.m. 1:54 p.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Saturday 4:28 a.m. 2:56 p.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme by Jessica Henrie the report, parts of the wastewa- system since the upgrade we soil treatment purposes. Sunday 5:13 a.m. 4:03 p.m. Monday 5:56 a.m. 5:13 p.m. ALMANAC STAFF WRITER ter system date back to 1920, it is completed several years ago. The Water Environment Tuesday 6:36 a.m. 6:24 p.m. Mostly cloudy, Mostly cloudy, Statistics for the week ending March 2. in good repair and has plenty of We’ve just done maintenance. At Association of Utah named it Wednesday 7:14 a.m. 7:37 p.m. Sun and some clouds Mostly cloudy showers around; a shower in the Mostly cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Temperatures Thursday 7:53 a.m. 8:50 p.m. Tooele City is prepared for capacity, said Jim Bolser, director this time, we still have ample Outstanding Reclamation Facility cooler afternoon High/Low past week 65/28future development with plenty of community development and capacity for anticipated growth.” of the Year in 2013, according to New First Full Last Normal high/low past week 49/30 57 39 60 47 50 33 49 33 46 34 48 35 54 40 Average temp past week 45.6of capacity in its wastewater sys- public works. In 2013, the city upgraded its the city’s website. Normal average temp past week 38.9tem, a city official said. “Simply put, this is a yearly wastewater treatment plant at Bolser’s report stated the city TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Mar 8 Mar 15 Mar 23 Mar 31 The city recently submitted report required by the state,” he 3300 N. 1200 West. The plant, spent approximately $50,000 last Shown is Friday’s weather. an annual self-assessment of its told the Tooele City Council on originally built in 2000, increased year maintaining the wastewa- Forecasts and graphics provided by Temperatures are Friday’s highs and Friday night’s municipal wastewater system Wednesday. “Last year provided the system’s capacity for waste. ter system. The system had no AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 lows. TBP FILE PHOTO to the state Division of Water us with the status quo — we The reclaimed water from the Tooele City last upgraded its wastewater system in 2013. The system is still in Quality. Although according to haven’t needed to upgrade the plant is used for irrigation and SEE CITY PAGE A7 ➤ UTAH WEATHER “great shape” and meets the city’s needs, a city official said. Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Logan BULLETIN BOARD B6 Grouse 53/27 Wendover PrecipitationAIR QUALITY (in inches) INSIDE Creek 62/38 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point Thursday CLASSIFIEDS C5 54/35 59/39 60/39 56/40 HOMETOWN A10 Ogden Stansbury Park Good Group promotes Stallion tennis 60/37 Erda 57/41 ham radio as coach to take over OBITUARIES A8 Vernal Grantsville 57/40 Pine Canyon Friday Salt Lake City 57/31 59/41 49/33 KID SCOOP B7 Tooele 60/40 Bauer Good reliable emergency coaching of boys 57/39 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal SPORTS B1 58/39 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D Provo Roosevelt 57/39 communication soccer team 58/30 56/32 See Stockton SnowfallSaturday (in inches) Price complete 58/39 See A2 See B1 61/35 Good Nephi forecast Rush Valley 60/33 58/36 Ophir on A9 53/34 Source: www.airquality.utah.gov Delta Manti 59/38 59/33 Green River Last Month Season 70/39 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 59/37 62/33 Moab 55/38 SNOWPACK Hanksville 71/35 Beaver 68/37 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 61/32 Ibapah 58/34 57/33 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Wednesday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Snowcover 17.7 14.9 9.9 St. George 65/31 66/39 Average 16.8 14.9 8.3 77/45 Kanab 68/33 Eureka Percent of average 105% 100% 119% 52/32 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN THURSDAY March 3, 2016 When signals go down, ham radio operators lend a hand by Steve Howe partway to the peak was already STAFF WRITER 10 degrees; it was likely below zero on the peak. Most Americans are accus- While Williams had some cold tomed to reaching into their weather gear, Kinghorn had only pocket for their cell phone when worn a light jacket and loafers, faced with an emergency. since he doesn’t leave the heli- There are times, however, copter on maintenance runs. when there isn’t an available To conserve battery power, signal to make a call or send a Williams and Kinghorn would text.