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Should a culinary water line extending from Mona city limits be allowed to continue to lengthen into county-owned territory or not?

Richard Kay wanted to know if the water line could be extended to service his home in the county.

Darlene Fowkes, council member, suggested tabling the request for a future date. During that time, she suggested, the council could do their homework and then make a decision based on fact.

"Would you be willing to give up your well permit to the city in exchange?" asked Harry Newell, council member.

Kay said his wife would like to be on culinary water rather than have the well the Kays own pumped to serve the home. However, he said, his wife does want to retain the well rights.

The county, said Doran Kay, council member, requires two acre feet of water for a home. The city, he said, would need to require the same number of acre feet be dedicated to the system to cover the water being used by the Kays at their home.

"The question is," said Doran Kay, "is the city interested in taking on another line outside city limits? Knowing that we have a certain amount of capacity in our current point of diversion to service the existing city or the future of the city's development, is the city interested in doing that?"

Nevertheless, said Newell, everyone needed to be treated the same. If water connections have been allowed others, then they should be allowed. Otherwise, the city needs to develop a policy so that all are treated equally.

"Providing connections outside the city limits is a discretionary thing, you can hook them up or deny them, either one," said Doran Kay. "Outside the city limits they do not have the same rights and do not get the same treatment as people living in the city limits. They can come and ask, but it is a discretionary issue."

Newell said his personal thoughts were to let Richard Kay hook on to the city system but that would not be his decision alone. He agreed with Fowkes that the issue should be tabled for a future time since, he said, he did not have enough knowledge to make a wise decision.

Allan Pay, water master, said that if it would be possible to transfer that kind of water right into the pressurized water system it would be a good idea. That way the water could be used to irrigate city property and eliminate the need to rent water for city parks.

There are a number of preliminary items to be taken care of, said Mayor Bryce Lynn, such as whether a change application would be allowed so that would be a first step, to determine whether that would be possible.

"That would need to be done before we would know if the transfer could be done," said Lynn.

It would be necessary for Richard Kay to pay for all expenses involved in getting the line to his house.

In addition, said Doran Kay, the council needs to decide whether they will allow Richard Kay to connect to city water and that needs to be done soon.

"Before Richard (Kay) makes a change application, we need to determine whether we are acceptable to it or not, because that would be an expense to him if we decided later that we didn't want it and were not going to allow it," said Doran Kay.

As time passes, said Doran Kay, it will become more and more critical that water connections to the city system not be allowed outside city limits.

"Councilman Doran Kay thinks maybe we should not do anymore water connections outside the city limits," said Lynn.