FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY First-time gardeners get their hands dirty See B1 TOOELE RANSCRIPT T Check out the features on our new Web site: BULLETIN tooeletranscript.com August 5, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 115 NO. 023 50¢ Water policy announced by Tim Gillie STAFF WRITER Tooele County residents have been waiting since a public meet- ing in May for the State Engineer to announce a decision on how applications for changes in points of diversion in Tooele Valley will be handled. A change application is necessary when a water right owner wants to move the location of a well — the point of diversion — from its pres- ent location. Change applications are vital in Tooele Valley as the val- ley is closed to new water rights, so people needing to acquire water can only do so by purchasing an existing right and moving the point of diver- sion to their location. The new policy will allow points of diversion within Tooele Valley to move north or south along lines perpendicular to the underground flow, they may move westward in direction, and any eastward move- ment will be limited to no more than three miles and no point of diversion will be allowed to cross over into the eastward zone. In the May public meeting, offi- cials from the State Engineer’s Office proposed limiting the eastward photography / Maegan Burr movement of points of diversion A helicopter takes water from the Grantsville Reservoir to the Little Bald Mountain fire in the Stansbury Mountains. The fire, which is 62 percent contained, could be contained by Saturday. because the east side of the valley has more water appropriated than exists underground, according to current models of how the Tooele Valley aquifers fill with water. Fire continues to burn in Stansbury Mountains The State Engineer’s Office left the public comment period open for by Sarah Miley “The biggest problem is firefight- That will allow the local resources Pollock added the weather fore- 30 days following the meeting and STAFF WRITER er safety and we want our firefight- who have been on the fire since it cast for today and tomorrow should then considered all the comments ers to be safe, so it can be difficult started to get some needed down- be a big help, with lower tempera- in rendering a final policy decision, The Little Bald Mountain if a fire is in an area where it’s not time before storms bringing poten- tures, higher humidity and a good according to Kent Jones, assistant fire burning on the Stansbury safe to put them,” she said. “It’s tial lightning roll in. chance of rain. state engineer. Mountains southwest of Grantsville harder on the crews when it’s really Local resources have been on Yesterday, the fire backed down Officials from the State Engineer’s has charred more than 500 acres steep and rugged and access is several other fires throughout the the hill toward South Willow office returned to Tooele for a meet- and is now 62 percent contained. limited.” state for more than a week and Canyon Road. The fire smoldered ing July 22 to announce a policy The fire, which was started by Eight 20-person crews, three need their rest, Pollock said. in brush and ignited single tree decision. lightning last Thursday, is in South helicopters, and five engines are “With these storms coming in we torching in certain areas. The eastward zone — which Willow Canyon and has burned 513 the current resources fighting the have a big possibility of lightning. Today, crews are strengthening contains the communities of east acres in heavy timber and rocky fire. So we’ll be released to go home and existing fire lines and putting out Erda and Lake Point — currently terrain. Fire officials estimate the Kathy Jo Pollock, fire information get downtime so we’re available hot spots, according to Pollock. has 27,404 acre feet of approved containment date will be Aug. 9. officer with the Forest Service, said for any new starts that we happen In addition, crews have already annual use compared to an annual The fire is burning in high eleva- as of 6 p.m. tonight, a type 2 inci- to pick up from that lighting,” she started rehabilitation efforts in recharge rate of 16,910 acre feet per tion and steep terrain, which pres- dent management team — a team said. “If we do have new starts from some areas to stabilize the soil in year, which makes the eastern zone ents a challenge for firefighters try- with resources that can handle a lightning we need to make sure our case heavy rains fall on the area. 62 percent over-allocated, accord- ing to access the blaze, according larger fire — will be managing the resources are rested up enough to Some of the fire is burning in ing to data presented by James to Kim Osborn, fire information Little Bald Mountain fire until it’s be able to go another five to seven Greer, an engineer with the state officer with the U.S. Forest Service. fully contained. days,” ➤ SEE FIRE PAGE A5 SEE WATER PAGE A6 ➤ CLOWNING AROUND Tooele guardsman Most wages arrested for alleged staying enticement of a minor fairly even Cops say marijuana Dowen arranged to plants found during meet one officer, whom by Doug Radunich he thought was a girl STAFF WRITER home search between the ages of 12 to 14 years old, at a Officials from large corpo- by Jamie Belnap Salt Lake Valley shop- Craig J. Dowen rations in Tooele County say SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEXSTAFF WRITER ping mall. When Dowen workers’ wages are pretty close The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY showed up to meet the that you can store an to what they were one year ago, Wednesday 6:31 a.m. 8:38 p.m. 9A Tooele9 9 resident9 and girl he was arrested by image on,” said Officer in spite of tough economic Thursday 6:32 a.m. 8:37 p.m. 7 8 Friday 6:33 a.m. 8:36 p.m. 6 20-year military veteran officers planted at the Jason Potter, the Tooele times. Saturday 6:34 a.m. 8:34 p.m. was arrested Friday on mall and booked into the representative for ICAC Jim Robson, regional econo- Sunday 6:35 a.m. 8:33 p.m. charges of enticement of Salt Lake County Jail. who helped execute the mist with the Utah Department Monday 6:36 a.m. 8:32 p.m. Wed Thu Fri a Satminor Sun overMon theTue Internet, During questioning, search warrant. of Workforce Services, said local Tuesday 6:37 a.m. 8:31 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater thea needsecond-degree for eye and skin felony. police obtained infor- When Tooele police Tooele County wages for the Wednesday 12:22 p.m. 11:04 p.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate;Craig 6-7 High;J. 8-10Dowen, 47, mation about Dowen’s officers descended into first quarter of 2008 went up 2.9 Thursday 1:26 p.m. 11:30 p.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 2:30 p.m. none was using an online recent activities — spe- the basement of the percent from what they were Saturday 3:32 p.m. 12:00 a.m. ALMANACchat room to solicit sex cifics of which cannot be home they found a large during the first quarter of 2007. Sunday 4:31 p.m. 12:36 a.m. Statistics for the week ending August 4. A stray afternoon Sunny intervals, a Intervals of clouds and from underage girls released — and began plywood structure in the Second quarter 2008 figures for Monday 5:25 p.m. 1:19 a.m. Partly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Temperatures Tuesday 6:13 p.m. 2:10 a.m. thunderstorm t-storm in the p.m. sunshine late Thursday evening the process of working furnace room covered Tooele County were unavail- High/Low past week 99/64 First Full Last New Normal high/low pastwhen week he unknowingly92/63 with local law enforce- with black plastic sheet- able at this time, but accord- 88 67 92 68 85 59 89 64 91 63 89 61 88 62 Average temp past beganweek chatting 79.7 with two ment to obtain a search ing, according to Potter. ing to local company officials, Normal average tempInternet past week Crimes 77.6 Against warrant of Dowen’s home Upon removing the plas- there hasn’t been a major wage TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Aug 8 Aug 16 Aug 23 Aug 30 Shown is Wednesday’s Children Task Force located at 1341 N. 550 tic, officers discovered increase or decrease compared photography / Maegan98 Burr undercover99 97 officers pos- East in Tooele, according nearly 50 marijuana to a year ago. Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are 94 93 93 Wednesday night’s lows and ing as such, according to McQuiston. plants in various growth Dave McCall, human AccuWeather, Inc. ©2008 Wednesday’s highs. Tooele County Commissioner Jerry Hurst rides around the Deseret Peak Arena during one of his acts as the rodeo clown at the ranch rodeo event at the Tooele County Fair. to ICAC Capt.68 Rhett “We were looking for McQuiston. computers or anything SEE ARRESTED PAGE A5 ➤ SEE WAGES PAGE A7 ➤ 71 71 UTAH WEATHER 65 64 67 68 68 Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan Grouse 94/58 Wendover Precipitation (in inches) INSIDE Creek 95/70 BULLETINKnolls BOARDClive A8 WEATHER Lake Point 92/59 94/73 93/72 95/71 12.45 12.16 Ogden CLASSIFIEDS B4 Stansbury Park 92/68 Erda 95/71 Demolition derby hit Horse show impresses Vernal HOMETOWN B1 Grantsville 91/69 Pine Canyon Salt Lake City 88/59 95/71 79/59 0.00 0.21 0.00 0.12 town last weekend crowd at fair Tooele 94/71 OBITUARIES A6 Bauer 88/67 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 88/66 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D See A10 See A7 Provo Roosevelt 88/67 89/60 OPEN FORUM A4 92/65 See Complete Stockton Pollen Index Price SPORTS A10 88/66 89/62 High Nephi Forecast Rush Valley 89/62 TV LISTINGS B2 87/64 Ophir Moderate on A9 79/59 Low Delta Manti Absent 96/66 87/62 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 95/69 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 90/66 88/62 Moab 91/63 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 92/68 Beaver 93/69 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m.