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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