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By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
One concern Mona Town Council members and community
residents have had is that the community may be forced to
build a sewer system in the near future.
Rick Schnurr, council member, contacted Bruce T. Hall,
Central Utah Public Health Department Environmental Health
Scientist, and asked him for a letter addressing the
concern.
"Contrary to what some Mona residents may have been told,
the need to convert to a public waste water treatment system
is not something that is forced upon a community that is
experiencing growth," said Hall.
Mayor Bryce Lynn said he had also spoken to Hall and
learned that it would be a long wait even if the town were
on a waiting list.
"It would be 20 years, that's if you were ready and on
the list today," said Lynn. "Once you are on the list it
takes time to move up the list and he said he did not
foresee any need for Mona to even be on a list or to be
worried about it for many, many years."
Darlene Fowkes, council member, said only so many sewer
systems were funded each year. That was a limited number,
she said.
"Only when a community encounters serious waste water
problems resulting from conditions such as a high ground
water table or poor soil conditions would local and state
health departments intervene and require a community-wide
collection and treatment system."
Schnurr said, when he talked with Hall, he was told that
the likelihood of the community needing to install a sewer
system was at least 20 years, if not more, away.
"The present system, septic tanks and drainage lines, is
adequate for many years," said Schnurr.
"In other words, we can just forget it," said Lynn. "It
isn't a concern." Hall had told him, he said, that it would
be more than 20 years, even with growth, before the
community would even be allowed on the waiting list.
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