Overlake Lawsuit Moving Ahead, but Final Resolution May Still Be Distant
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELETRANSCRIPT THS softball wins seven of eight games at tourney in St. George ULLETIN See A10 B March 11, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 85 50¢ Overlake lawsuit moving ahead, but final resolution may still be distant by Tim Gillie that some progress on the acres of property owned by residential development. STAFF WRITER impasse may be forthcom- Tooele Associates and com- It became oriented to stop ing. bined it with another parcel growth.” Overlake developer Drew The saga of Overlake nearing 1,000 acres that was In 2002, Hall filed sev- Hall’s 13-year dream of a began in 1995, when Hall already in the city limits. eral lawsuits in 3rd District walkable, mixed-use com- approached city officials This became the subdivision Court against Tooele City munity has been stalled for with an idea for a master known as Overlake. claiming it had violated the almost six years now, await- planned community to the “Everything went great development agreement. ing the outcome of a law- northwest of the city prop- until Charlie Roberts was One suit asked for $200 mil- suit Hall’s company, Tooele er. Tooele City negotiated a elected mayor,” said Hall. lion in damages. The main photography / Troy Boman Associates, filed against development agreement that “After that, the attitude of allegations in the suits were: This center median on 400 West near 1500 North in Overlake is badly damaged Tooele City in 2002. was signed in 1997, and the the city changed. It became and not landscaped. The median is illustrative of public improvements the devel- There are signs, however, city annexed roughly 2,000 a hostile environment for SEE LAWSUIT PAGE A5 ➤ oper did not properly complete, according a lawsuit filed by Tooele City. Commuters tighten Stockton belts again as gas smelter prices climb higher site set for by Doug Radunich often my family and I will get final EPA STAFF WRITER out on trips or how far we’ll travel.” After a slow cost decrease Kory Meyer, of Lake Point, cleanup over the winter, Utah gaso- said she now goes through a line prices are spiking upward tank of gasoline a week with by Sarah Miley again — with predictions for her Ford diesel truck — which STAFF WRITER even higher prices this sum- costs her about $80 to $90 a mer. week. She said she now drives Final cleanup of the con- According to utahgaspric- her truck less often while her taminated Jacobs Smelter es.com, the average price for husband takes a carpool van Superfund site in Stockton a gallon of regular gasoline in to work. is set to begin next year and Utah today was $3.11, up 15 “Driving our truck to Draper could be completed as soon cents from an average price would cost him around $100 as 2011, according to offi- of $2.96 recorded only one a week,” she said. “It seems cials from the Environmental month ago. like the cost of gas goes up Protection Agency. Utah AAA Spokesperson 4 cents every week, which Operable Unit 2, the last Rolayne Fairclough said driv- makes a big difference. Even of three areas to be cleaned ers still seem to be tolerating just getting to the grocery of lead and arsenic soil con- the higher prices. store in Tooele now takes up tamination, consists mostly “In Utah right now, the a lot of gas.” of non-residential ground on average price is $3.11 a gal- Travis Farewell, who lives the northeast, south and west lon, and one year ago today in Pine Canyon, has also outskirts of the town, said Lisa the average price in the state been cutting down on driving Lloyd, project manager for the was $2.30 a gallon, which because of gas prices. EPA’s Region 8. people complained about at “Right now I’m mostly just These areas are where sev- the time, saying it was way driving back and forth to eral smelters — including the too high,” Fairclough said. school because of the high Waterman Smelting Works, But local residents say pain prices,” he said. “I’m prob- Chicago Smelter and Carson at the pump is forcing them ably spending about $30 a Buzzo Smelter — operated, to change their driving hab- week on gas.” said Tom Daniels, project man- its. In Tooele, the lowest price ager for the Utah Department Bruce Riches, of Tooele, for a gallon of unleaded gaso- of Environmental Quality. said rising gas prices have line on Monday was $2.97 at Some land in the north- forced him to use his family’s Wal-Mart, while the Maverik east area of Stockton within car more and his truck less. County Store and Holiday gas Operable Unit 2 is owned by “It’s hard to afford diesel station, both of which are on Kennecott and the Bureau of gasoline, so I now only use Main Street, had the second Land Management. The EPA my truck for absolute neces- lowest price at $3.01. The 7- will pay for the majority of the sities, like in case I have to Eleven on Main Street had cleanup. haul something somewhere,” the third lowest at $3.03. The entire Jacobs Smelter he said. “I’ve also been using The Chevron station on Superfund site is approxi- the family car more often, and Main Street had the most mately eight square miles. not been making as many lei- expensive gas in Tooele at From the 1860s to the 1970s, surely trips to the store as $3.15. Stockton was a hub for silver I had been. When summer Fairclough said that this photography / Troy Boman and base-metal mining, mill- rolls around, I’m sure the Dennis Taylor fills up his small pickup truck in Stansbury Park Monday. Taylor, a site supervisor for a construc- ing and smelting. Smelting high prices will dictate how SEE GAS PAGE A3 ➤ tion company, no longer uses his full-size truck because of high gas prices. He currently spends $100 a week for wastes from those operations fuel. are the sources of the con- taminants. Jacobs Smelter was located on the northeast end of Stockton. Steel shortage, winter storms An updated proposed plan that will outline actions for cleaning up lead- and arsenic- slow elementary construction contaminated soil in the area by Tim Gillie steel arrived a harsh series of West said. “When the winds is set to be finished this spring STAFF WRITER winter storms stopped crews are too strong, they can’t or summer, which will be fol- from erecting the trusses, hang the trusses.” lowed by a public comment Despite setbacks caused by according to Steve West, West asked the contrac- period of 30 days, Lloyd said. a steel shortage and winter construction coordinator for tor for the school, Hughes A decision document outlin- storms, Settlement Canyon the Tooele County School General Contractors, for ing steps to be taken based on Elementary will open on District. an updated work schedule that plan will be released in time this summer, accord- The building should be showing how the company September. ing to Tooele County School ready to be occupied by July planned to complete the If cleanup efforts begin in District officials. 15, though any future delays building on time. The new 2009, Lloyd said completion The delays began when may push that back to Aug. schedule shows the school would be set for 2011. However, steel trusses for the build- 1, West said. divided into five area with that depends on weather, how photography / Troy Boman ing were three weeks late in “It wasn’t so much the prioritized work in each cleanup efforts progress and Welders Terry Duffy and Danny Woodland (l-r) construct a ceiling grid at arriving due to a nationwide amount of snow as it was Settlement Canyon Elementary Monday. Even with construction delays, steel shortage. Then, once the the frequency of high winds,” SEE SLOW PAGE A3 ➤ SEE SITE PAGE A3 ➤ the school is still scheduled to open this summer. INSIDE WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 A chance of showers through OBITUARIES A6 BULLETIN BOARD A8 Coping with food allergies Thursday with highs in the overwhelms local families upper 40s. TV LISTINGS B2 CLASSIFIEDS B4 See B1 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 PAID ITEMS B3 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY March 11, 2008 Illegal Tooele dump becoming eyesore for neighborhood by Tim Gillie out there with somebody liv- STAFF WRITER ing in it,” she said. “It was ugly, its windows were busted out. It looks like a pile of junk About 8 months ago the trailer from the county landfill, but it disappeared and that’s when I rests in the middle of a vacant first noticed the junk pile.” lot in the center of Tooele City. Tooele City officials did not The pile of old couches, com- notice the trash pile or receive puters, a washing machine, any complaints about it, accord- beer bottles, and a dead coy- ing Cary Campbell, director of ote located in a field just north Community Development and “It’s disturbing and disgusting.” Sunshine Herbert Tooele resident of 1000 North at about 150 Public Works for the city. East has at least one neighbor “We will send the police upset. department to investigate and “It’s disturbing and disgust- see if they can determine who ing,” said Sunshine Herbert, did the dumping,” Campbell who lives in a subdivision adja- said. “In the meantime, we photography / Troy Boman cent to the vacant lot where the will notify the property owner An impromptu dump that includes a dead coyote is growing bigger by the week in a vacant lot near 1000 North and approximately 100 East.