Water News Roundup – August 11, 2010

Provo Daily Herald: Pleasant Grove weighs water options – A years-long argument about how to provide water and sewer to Manilla residents continued progress at a snail’s pace on Tuesday. Pleasant Grove elected officials spent more than an hour discussing how to end a stalemate that has now outlasted several mayors.

Salt Lake Tribune: Who dumped paint into City Creek? – The Salt Lake Valley Health Department is trying to determine who dumped latex paint and mortar residue into a storm drain leading into City Creek.

Wall Street Journal: California puts off vote on huge water-upgrade effort – California lawmakers have voted to delay putting an $11.1 billion water bond to voters, extending a battle to rework the biggest effort in decades to upgrade the state’s water system.

Water News Roundup – August 10, 2010

Salt Lake Tribune:  Latex paint spill in City Creek under investigation – Latex paint and mortar residue contaminated City Creek after the materials were dumped into a storm drain from two homes in the Avenues, fire crews said.

Chevron letters rile oil spill victims  – Annie Payne and her family spent two nights in a hotel after 33,600 gallons of crude oil from a leaky pipeline poured into the stream near their Yalecrest home two months ago and made them all sick.  And, like many of her east Salt Lake City neighbors and others driven away by the petrochemical fumes, she took up Chevron on its invitation to submit a claim for spill-related costs.

Deseret News: Pipeline construction moves to Provo – “One day a road will be open, but when you drive there the next day, it will be closed. It’s been very hard to get around here.”  …. It’s been pretty much the same story all summer for everyone who lives on or near 400 East, where workers have laid five miles of 60-inch diameter pipe as part of the Spanish Fork Provo Reservoir Canal Pipeline project.

KSL: No swimming in Salem pond – A swimming advisory was issued for Salem Pond after testing of the water indicates it is unsafe for swimming, deep wading, and ingesting due to bacterial contamination.

Water News Roundup – April 13, 2010

Salt Lake Tribune: Culture Vulture: City Creek’s promise begins to show – The reflecting pools weren’t reflecting much on Friday, as the winds bouncing between the twinned 10-story buildings of Richards Court churned up the water into a succession of waves.  In calmer weather, these reflecting pools will look up at the promised glory of City Creek Center, the massive shopping/office/residential complex The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is building in downtown Salt Lake City.  (Sean Means comments specifically on the water features that run throughout the new City Creek Redevelopment Project.  The water features installed as part of the ‘open space, green development’ plan are not an actual daylighting of the historic southern fork of City Creek, but they do show how water can be used to augment and beautify an urban setting.  It should be quite a nice place to visit.  The food court even has a Red Iguana III! WOOT!)

KCPW: Author, photographer, document reemergence of Glen Canyon – The construction of the Glen Canyon Dam to create Lake Powell in the 1960s monumentally changed the landmark on the Utah-Arizona border as it was flooded with water from the Colorado River.

Via Water Conserve and The Guardian: Shell fights shareholders’ campaign for oil sands review – A group of institutional investors, led by campaign group FairPensions, had tabled a special resolution ahead of the Anglo-Dutch company’s annual meeting next month. They want Shell to review the commercial and environmental viability of going ahead with its new projects in Canada’s boreal forests.

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