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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Gun Range, Park, Pond And Lights

Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
                                                                             
 
GARDEN CITY, Utah.  July 11, 2013.  Garden City Council Meeting.  Riley Argyle, Garden City Public Works Supervisor, reported that work will begin on the 75 North parking lot on Wednesday, July 17.  LeGrand Johnson was given the contract, and that company hopes to have the job completed by the end of July.  Their bid was quite a bit lower than the other bids that were received for the project.
 
The Bear Lake Gun Range is moving forward.  Danny White, the City Administrator, has met with the individuals living in Sweetwater Trailer Park to inform them of plans dealing with the gun range.  A letter had been sent prior to the meeting with quite a few returns questioning possible noise problems, raising some safety concerns, and if there would be a possibility of fires being caused by firing the guns.   Overhead baffles will be installed and berms will be built to help do away with loud noise.  Individuals  may be able to hear some echoes, but the noise will not be very noticeable.  Fire danger is no different on the gun range than at any other location on the mountain sides in the area.  The types of guns and ammunition used on a firing range are different than those used by the army that started the Harriman Fire. 
 
A vote was taken of those attending the meeting.  The majority were in favor of the gun range.  Another vote was taken concerning a four-wheel trail that has been created by individuals not staying on existing roads.  The State along with those individuals at the meeting voted in favor of no longer allowing this trail to be used by four-wheelers.
 
The foundation is in for the kiosk.  The contractor who was hired to help with getting the kiosk built has backed out.  The City will need to get someone else to help get the kiosk completed.
 
The meter project is now complete.  The meter at the Church was the last to be put in place.
GIS mapping of the City=s infrastructure is continuing with points being added daily.
 
Steve Watterson finished the parking lot at Heritage Park.  Culverts have been installed along Third West.  Third West can now be usedBit is a narrow, dirt road, but drive able.  The trees that were planted in the park last fall look good.  There are no leaks in the fish pond.  It would be good if the water in the pond were circulated so that it didn=t get so warm during the late afternoons.  Also, the water in the pond is starting to get mossy. 
 
It was suggested that something be done with the banks of the pond.  More and more weeds, particularly thistles are growing along there.  Some type of plants need to be planted so that the banks are not so muddy after a rain.  It might be a good idea to pump the water from the pond onto the banks to water the plants in a recycling process.   The suggestion was also made to borrow Bryce Huefner’s trencher right after Raspberry Days to get some pipes in place to get water to the pond more easily and get some grass growing.
There are ten lights left to be installed.  Two will be placed in front of the park on Bear Lake Blvd. and two will be put in front of the KOA/ACE Hardware area.  Lights were going to be placed at the intersection of Logan Road with Bear Lake Blvd. but UDOT has so much signage in that area, that it appears there isn’t a good place to install them.  Rocky Mountain Power gave permission to hang some of the banners similar to those on the light poles.  It was also suggested that the banners on the light poles be made wider and longer for easier reading.  White said it would be possible to do that by placing new brackets of a larger size on the poles.

Argyle reported that the water leaks that have been so numerous the last couple of months have been taken care of. 

Some changes need to be made to the water master plan.  Currently there are some pressure problems.  There is not enough pressure in the lines to provide adequate water to homes higher up on the hills.  The City needs to at least meet fire code requirements.  More pressure pumps will need to be purchased and installed at some of the subdivisions.  It was noted that standards for pressure pumps as well as installation requirements be written up and placed in the City's standards book. 

There are still two meters that need to be installed for users on the Idaho side.

 

JUB has suggested that the placement of water tanks needs to be more carefully considered.  Instead of putting all of the storage tanks on the tops of the hills, some could placed lower down which would save pumping all of the water to the higher elevations.

 

JUB was in town on the 9th of July and ran some flow tests.  The data logs were also pulled from the commercial meters allowing for a great deal of data to be made available to JUB for help in working on the master water plan.  The logs capture the amount of water used each day at each of these meter sites.  JUB wants readings after the 24th of July as well as immediately after Raspberry Days.  This will give an idea of the maximum water used during peak holidays.  JUB is also working with the GIS data to flesh the water master plan.  It was noted that Garden City overall is actually using less water so far this year and last year. 

There is still some landscaping that needs to be completed at the water treatment plant.  There are also some issues with the lines that handle chlorine.  

Argyle reported that the parks will be mowed and trimmed along with some other properties that are used for parking on Raspberry Days.  Someone needs to be asked to work with helping people park during Raspberry Days to help solve some of the congestion problems.  Additional signs needs to be made to help control people and traffic flow during that weekend and big trash cans need to be made available for that weekend.

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