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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show Trash on the Ogden Matters Which Affect Our City May 29, 2008 RYAN MCGEENEY/Standard-Examiner Natural and man-made refuse accumulates at the spillway in the Pineview Reservoir. If not contained, floatable trash crosses through the spillway and into the Ogden River below. Keith Rounkles, a local resident and business owner in Ogden Canyon, claims he has petitioned the city for more than a decade to address the problem. Officials say build-up of trash along the dam is inevitable By GREG BOYLES Standard-Examiner staff gboyles@standard.net OGDEN When the beer cans, styrofoam cups, wood and shredded tires that collect against the floodgates on the west end of Pineview Reservoir overflow into the Ogden River, the trash leaves a trail of litter on the shore behind Keith Rounkles' The Oaks restaurant on Ogden Canyon Road. "On high water years (such as this year) when the reservoir has filled up, the floatable trash comes to the surface and floats down to the reservoir gates. Then when the reservoir finally fills up, the trash flows over into the river," Rounkles said Tuesday. Rounkles said he and others who work and live along the Ogden River are the victims of unwanted trash piles forming on the river banks. "One year when we were cleaning the shoreline, we picked up over 74 used diapers," Rounkles said. "They let all this trash go down the river, and it's just sick." Pineview Water System General Manager Terel Grimley disagrees with Rounkles and feels that, considering the size of the reservoir and the amount of trash that is actually released into the river, it's not a big problem. "Many agencies have reviewed us and said over 90 percent of what goes (into the river) is natural," Grimley said. The buildup of trash along a dam is an inevitable part of its existence, Grimley said, which is why the agencies that have reviewed the dam haven't made a formal complaint about it. The overflow of trash into the river doesn't happen every year, but Rounkles said it occurs often enough that Pineview should scoop it up before it gets into the river. See TRASH Page 2C 49 |
