FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Tooele baseball eliminated from playoff picture See A10 TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN May 6, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 101 50¢ County considering regional sewer plant by Sarah Miley ties for either pre-treatment or STAFF WRITER post-treatment. Aqua Engineering’s Craig Tooele County has retained Neeley, who is also the contract- an engineering firm to study ed city engineer for Grantsville, the feasibility of a regional said, “It’s always less expensive sewer plant that could possi- to build a centralized facility bly include Grantsville, Tooele, than several satellite facilities.” Stansbury Park, Lake Point and He added existing facilities county-administered parts of wouldn’t be abandoned if a Tooele Valley. regional sewer plant was built, “We’re just doing a little but rather integrated into the investigation to see if one new system. would be feasible,” said Tooele “The trick would be to inte- County Engineering Director grate the existing facilities and Vern Loveless, who added the use those, but yet use this facil- idea of such a facility has been ity for the areas that didn’t have kicked around for years. “We’re adequate treatment or capac- serious enough about it now to ity,” he said. have an engineering firm see The county’s plan to consider how feasible it is to combine such a system comes at a time some sewer treatment facili- when growth is taxing sewer ties.” infrastructure in many areas. Bountiful-based Aqua Grantsville City is contem- Engineering is the firm con- plating an expansion to its ducting the study. sewer system, and Tooele City, If a regional sewer plant was despite currently undergoing feasible and plans to construct an expansion, is already look- photography / Troy Boman one put in place, it would ing at upping its treatment The body of a dead calf lies on the side of a dirt road near Lone Rock in Skull Valley. Lone Rock, a popular recreation area where 10 cows were recently killed, mean that wastewater from capacity again, according to also has problems with litter, reckless shooting and trail damage. existing treatment facilities — Loveless. Grantsville, Tooele, Lake Point Additionally, Stansbury Park Improvement District and and Lake Point, which have Stansbury Park Improvement their own lagoon systems, are District — would go to a region- part of the study. Lone Rock troubled by other al sewer plant. Tooele County has a few facil- “What we’re looking at is ities — Miller Motorsports Park a regional sewer system,” and Deseret Peak Complex — Loveless said. “We’re not look- that are currently being served ing at collecting sewer from all by Tooele City, so the city has problems besides cattle killing the homes in the Tooele Valley, an interest in a combined sys- just collecting from existing tem as well. That sewer line by Jamie Belnap Bureau of Land Management offi- for the Salt Lake Field Office of the sewer plants.” is pumped to the Tooele City STAFF WRITER cials say that while the number of gun Bureau of Land Management. “It has He added the regional sewer treatment plant. Future antici- shooters in the area isn’t particularly become an eyesore and it’s disap- plant would probably be an pated growth around the area The recent killing of several cows a new development, other problems pointing that people wouldn’t be bet- augmentation to the existing near Sheep Lane would even- near Lone Rock in Skull Valley has continue to elevate in seriousness as ter when they go out there.” facilities, with possible consid- shone a spotlight on other problems these and other recreationalists leave And what’s even more concerning, eration of the existing facili- SEE SEWER PAGE A5 ➤ in the area. behind trash and pay no heed to signs Rigby said, is the type of trash left Aside being a well-known geological alerting users of land-use stipula- behind. feature in Skull Valley, Lone Rock also tions. “We have found computer monitors appears to be Tooele County’s most “It is an area that has seen a lot of out there that people shot at,” Rigby popular shooting range — with thou- trash because people are irresponsi- sands of spent shells to prove it. ble,” said Teresa Rigby, spokeswoman SEE TROUBLE PAGE A5 ➤ Dog attack raises difficult questions by Jamie Belnap Road resident, suffered deep was bit in the heel while trying ‘I’ve never seen my dog do STAFF WRITER bite wounds to her leg and to help Thompson. this before,’” said Debra Bush, arm when her neighbor’s dogs Thompson’s neighbor was animal control supervisor and A 21-year-old Tooele City squeezed through a hole in not home at the time of the director of the Tooele City woman was transported to the wood fence that separated mauling. When police respond- Animal Shelter. “All dogs have Mountain West Medical Center the two yards. Thompson was ed to the scene, the two pit the propensity to bite.” Friday evening after being attacked while she was try- bulls were still running free in Both dogs were transported mauled by her next door neigh- ing to usher four young chil- Thompson’s back yard. to the animal shelter for quar- bor’s pit bull. The attack again dren — two of her own and The police report stated that antine. A hearing will determine raises the issue of dangerous two that she was babysitting the owner said his dogs have whether they will be allowed to photography / Troy Boman pets and what steps should be — into the house, according gotten loose before, but had go home or be euthanized. Dan Olson holds a water sample tube above a clarifying tank at the Tooele City taken to solve a countywide to a report by the Tooele City never caused a problem. This process is the same in wastewater treatment facility. Tooele County is proposing a regional treatment plant problem. Police Department. “In all the dog bite cases we to link up with already existing plants. Megan Thompson, a Timpie Another woman, Tori Jensen, see, every single owner says, SEE ATTACK PAGE A9 ➤ Memorial mural creates controversy by Tim Gillie Hainsworth called city officials to took action. STAFF WRITER complain. She was told the city’s “The kids came to me and asked if hands were tied because the mural they could paint a mural in memory A new mural painted by tag artists was protected free speech. of their friend and I said OK”, said on the back of Quality Quick Stop on “An answer to the issue would Nakar. “When I heard some of the Broadway Avenue to memorialize a involve a complex analysis of First neighbors were upset, I covered up friend has stirred up controversy in Ammendment [free speech] issues the objectionable part with white the neighborhood. as well as signage, harmful materials paint.” The mural was painted in memory and other laws,” said Roger Baker, The mural now sports a figure with of Wayne Steele, 26, who passed away Tooele City Attorney. a head, arms, legs, and a white box unexpectedly on April 22. Jeff Eilerts However, the artists appear to for a torso. and a group of Steele’s other friends have settled the matter without the Eilerts said that the nude was a painted the mural, which includes city’s involvement. random figure and not part of an a portrait of Wayne and some of his “Our intent was to do something overall theme. It was also not one own artwork. in memory of Wayne,” said Eilerts, of the pictures from Steele’s sketch- Brynn Newell and Donna of Tooele. “We did not mean to do book. Eilerts anticipates that the Hainsworth both have backyards anything objectionable, and when I artist that painted the picture will that face the new mural. The two heard there were complaints I asked return and touch up the whited-out neighbors say one of the figures in the person that painted the picture figure at some point. the mural was of a naked female. in question to go over and fix it up.” “It probably wasn’t the best thing “It is more than I want my 12-year- Before the mural could be touched to paint in a public place,” said photography / Troy Boman old son looking at out his bedroom up by the original artists, however, Eilerts. window,” Newell said. Quick Stop owner Narendra Nakar [email protected] The controversial portion of a mural dedicated to deceased graffiti artist Wayne Steele depicted a nude women until it was covered up with white paint. 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We’re able to retain high- Mountain West Medical Center formance in the last 12 to 18 qualified staff to care for our last month, replacing interim months as shown by nation- patients.