Hyrum
will sell 40 acres in Left Hand Fork canyon
By Seth
Bracken
October 6, 2008 | HYRUM -- A 40-acre lot will be placed
for auction at a minimum bid of $300,000, says Mayor
Dean Howard.
The lot is in Left Hand Fork Canyon, and the money
would be used to pay for city parks. The City Council
discussed whether it would be a worthwhile business
venture to keep the land public and create a campground
on the site.
However, Councilman Tom LaBau said that even at full
capacity, the campground would make only $1,830 in four
months.
"Is it really worth keeping?" said LaBau. "Wouldn't
that money be better used in parks that are here in
the city than on a piece of property that is really
hard to reach?"
Also, the city will pay a $4,600 fine for a sewage
leak to the Utah Department for Water Quality. The leak
resulted from a sewage failure that happened in spring,
said Howard, when 300,000 gallons of sewage were leaked
from a city-owned facility into a ditch, due to a lock-up
in the computer system and the failure of an alarm.
"You wanted hip boots," said Howard.
The controls and system have since been changed and
there was no major damage due to the leak, he said.
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