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FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE Honored guests TRANSCRIPT gather at Old Folks Sociable See B1 BULLETIN March 20, 2007 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 113 NO. 86 50¢ Massive search ongoing for missing Erda man Experienced trapper may have left home with only pistol, binoculars by Suzanne Ashe About 250 to 300 county Search STAFF WRITER and Rescue workers have traversed Tooele County Search and Rescue the rocky landscape on foot, horse- volunteers are still looking for a back, donkeys and ATVs. The search 34-year-old man who disappeared has also been aided by air support from his Erda home last week. The — fixed-wing planes, a state public county has spent thousands of man safety helicopter and a private heli- hours searching for Ryan Jensen in copter paid for by the family. the Oquirrh Mountains, according to According to Park, Jensen was Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park. having personal and financial prob- Jensen has been missing for a lems. He was about to be served week. His mother, Sharon Nichols divorce papers from his estranged of Magna, reported him missing wife last Tuesday. last Wednesday. The search began When investigators searched on Thursday and was continuing Jensen’s home, they found the only through today. things missing were a pair of bin- Jensen, an experienced trapper, oculars and a .22 caliber handgun. spent many hours hiking in the The backdoor was ajar and Jensen’s Oquirrh Mountains and was very keys were in the door. His vehicles, familiar with the area, according to Park. SEE SEARCH ON A6 Governor, EnergySolutions strike deal for less waste by Mark Watson erty that has a storage capac- STAFF WRITER ity of 3.6 million cubic yards. Gov. Huntsman called it a The company will continue to monumental win for Utahns handle only class A radioactive while representatives of waste — the lowest level of EnergySolutions were not as waste classified by the Nuclear ecstatic, but expressed satis- Regulatory Commission. faction with a deal to cap the “The governor was able to amount of waste the facility reach an agreement which can accept. allows us to keep our goal Last week, the two sides of limiting radioactive waste reached an agreement by coming to Utah,” said Michael which EnergySolutions will Mower, deputy chief of staff abandon its plan to combine for the governor. two cells and stack waste high- Tooele County er in an effort to increase its Commissioner Bruce Clegg photography / Troy Boman disposal capacity by 4.3 mil- indicated the change should Tooele City Police Detective / Forensic Investigator James May has set up the city’s first forensic lab. The new lab dramatically reduces lion cubic yards. However, the not affect the county in the the amount of time it takes to process evidence for investigators. deal will allow the company to use another cell on its prop- SEE WASTE ON A5 Adjacent landowner supports CSI Tooele: new forensics lab expected new industrial zone in city to speed up crime scene investigations May, a 16-year veteran of police and foren- While the new lab is expected to speed up rezone the property,” said by Suzanne Ashe by Mark Watson sics work, has aided in solving many cases investigations, May himself has already been Tooele County Commissioner STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER since he began working for the Tooele Police an asset to local police. Last month in the Bruce Clegg, speaking as a pri- When Tooele County Sheriff’s investigators A major landowner near a Department two and a half years ago. Now, Delle car fire case — which left a body in a vate landowner whose family found a man who had been badly burned and new 148-acre industrial zone at however, he has a new crime lab to process burning car and another man critically injured, holds title to about 250 acres left in the desert near Delle to die recently, 1800 W. and SR-112 in Tooele drugs, fluids and fingerprints on the spot, lying 50 feet away — May helped investigators adjacent to the Bolinder land. they called Tooele City detective and foren- City supported Bolinder instead of waiting weeks or months for results during the critical hours just after the crime “We were in favor of the indus- sic investigator James May, who was able Company in its successful from the Utah Bureau of Forensic Services in scene was discovered. trial zone because if we want to process the scene and later use a partial quest to rezone the area from Salt Lake City. "Detective Ron Johnson was able to get to eventually sell the property fingerprint to identify the victim. “rural residential” to “indus- In fact, the Tooele City-funded lab will be some detail off of his one hand that wasn’t for residential sometime in Another time, during a recent rape investi- trial.” The move will allow available to other agencies in the county. burnt completely away, and I ran that against the future we could seek a gation, May collected key evidence: seminal Geneva Rock to begin con- Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park said his a 10-card [from the state fingerprint database] rezone then. It is easier to go fluid on the victim, the bed and the wall. struction of a concrete plant department is looking forward to using the on the property. from industrial to residential if Presented with this evidence, a suspect police had in custody confessed to the crime. resources of the lab and that it’s a great asset “We were contacted by Gary to the county. SEE CSI ON A6 Bolinder about his desire to SEE ZONE ON A5 Stansbury Lake water level dropping sharply by Alleen Lang sion was made. The cheap over- 4,000 gallons per minute during CORRESPONDENT flow storm drain water had been the 24-hour period, according It’s been touched with sea- used to kept lake levels stable to Jeff Terry, Stansbury Service sonal botulism and choked with during the winter months when Agency manager. weeds, and now Stansbury Lake Stansbury Service Agency does After the Mill Pond pump is is showing more muddy banks not have rights to pump water turned on in April, Holmes said than it has in a long time. from the Mill Pond. he expects to see lake levels rise The level of the lake has However, an analysis showed 2 to 3 inches a week. He said the dropped nearly 10 inches over the runoff water was increasing lake should be back to standard the winter and is expected to nutrient loads in the lake. High levels by June in time for heavy dwindle as much as another nutrient loads are believed to be summer usage. foot before April 17, when the responsible for the proliferation “I don’t think the low lake lev- Stansbury Service Agency will of weeds in the shallow, man- els will have a major impact on begin pumping water in from made lake. homeowners. It’s just an incon- the Mill Pond, according to “We are working on a long- venience, as long as it is taken Walt Holmes, former Stansbury term solution,” Holmes said. care of this year,” Terry said. Service Agency trustee and “You kind of have to put a blind- Both Terry and Holmes said current consultant with the fold on short term to solve the the agency is currently seeking Stansbury Lake committee. longer-term problems.” other sources of water. A seasonal ebb and flow of Currently the agency has Falling lake levels are not lake levels was expected when rights to pump water from the expected to cause drastic envi- the board of trustees made the Mill Pond one day a week from ronmental impacts this year, decision in the fall of 2006 to April 15 through November 1. A Holmes said. He noted the situ- divert storm drain and overflow new pump installed in the sum- ation is similar to what occurs golf course pond water away mer of 2006 has increased capac- seasonally on a natural lake. photography / Troy Boman ity to draw off water. But the Evan Romero (left) and Aviel Granados play on the boat dock on Stansbury Lake. Water levels have dropped nearly 10 from the lake, said Holmes, who agency is limited to just under SEE LAKE ON A6 inches over the winter and will lower another foot before the Stansbury Service Agency pumps in water from Mill Pond. was on the board when the deci- WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 THE BULLETIN BOARD B2 INSIDE Highs near 60 today with OBITUARIES A7 TV LISTINGS B3 Cowboys top Rabbits; fall rain showers tomorrow. to ‘Cats, Miners. Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 CLASSIFIEDS B4 See A10 HOMETOWN B1 CROSSWORD B5 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY March 20, 2007 Utah & The West Valley Weather Forecast Local Weather Anti-war protests mark anniversary of U.S. invasion Wed 50/32 3/21 by Aaron Clark Petraeus is now pursuing, in which we ASSOCIATED PRESS Chance of showers. Highs in the have enough forces to clear an area and low 50s and lows in the low 30s. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The fourth hold it, so that building and governance anniversary of the war in Iraq brought can emerge, is the best strategy,” she thousands of anti-war marchers into said. Thu 57/36 the streets for largely peaceful protests In New York, police lined sidewalks 3/22 over the weekend, though a large rally for the blocks-long procession as pro- Plenty of sun. Highs in the upper in Portland ended in with scuffles and testers carrying signs reading “Impeach 50s and lows in the mid 30s.

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