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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29. 1985 PACE 4 DAILY SPECTRUM Other dams leaking AF transport plane crashes in desert 30 families back in homes Contaminated water it a RMTMfiTON Utah (UPI) State and Davis County officials say visitors to Lagoon amusement park may have drunk contaminated water drawn from an illegal well and from an irrigation system. The Utan Bureau oi j-udiic waiei auiy saya goon has violated three state laws designed to ensure safe drinking water. Larry Scanlon, chief of compliance for the bureau, said two of the alleged violations related to use of the well. They were failure to monitor a public water suddIv ana operating an unapproved pub lic water supply.

He said tne tmra aiiegea vioiauun uivuneu a cross-connection linking the park's drinking and ir rigation water lines. NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (UPI) An Air Force transport plane crashed on a remote desert gunnery range during a training mission, killing five crew members and leaving a sixth missing in a mass of smoldering wreckage. "We have declared five crew members deceased and one missing," Maj. Dennis Eflein confirmed late Tuesday, nearly 12 hours after the C-130 aircraft crashed and burned in the desert some 120 miles northwest of Nellis AFB.

"The reason one is still missing is that the wreckage is still too hot from the fire to find a sixth body," said Eflein, spokesman for the Air Force Coordination Center at Scott AFB in Illinois. Ground crews, who left the crash scene because of darkness Tuesday night, prepared today to return to the site and retrieve the bodies and begin an investigation in the cause of the crash. The C-130 crashed at 12:10 p.m. PDT Tuesday in a restricted area on the vast military complex. The plane, on a routine training mission, was assigned to the Military Air Lift Command's 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing at Dyess AFB in Texas.

A search team, ground parties and a flight surgeon were sent to the accident scene by mid-afternoon and helicopters from Hill AFB in Utah and McClellan AFB in California flew to the crash site. Authorities declined to confirm where the flight originated or its final destination and what cargo the aircraft carried. In September 1981. another C-130 Air Force transport with more than 50 Army Ranger commandos aboard crashed 45 miles north of Indian Springs, during a nighttime training exercise. Seven men died in the accident when the transport crashed and skidded on its nose and belly for more than 1,500 feet as fire spread into the cargo compartment.

Sixty-one crewmen and troops escaped but more than 40 were treated for injuries. Scanlon said it was up to me uavis county attorney's office to press charges on the alleged violations. Davis County health officials said they were angry with park management for allegedly giving the county a false report that the well had been "We had a pretty bad leak in Hobbs," he said. "We put a patch on the front of it and it's stable now. But we re draining it so we can repair the leak." Davis County was subjected to mudslides and flash floods in'May when record snowmelt runoff was complicated by heavy thunderstorms.

Hobbs Reservoir is above Layton, 25 miles north of Salt Lake City. The Gunnison Reservoir above Gunnison. 110 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Hansen said there is a danger that both the Gunnison Reservoir and the Hobbs dams could fail, but said quick action to save them should prevent either from collapsing. "We've got concern but we're not overly worried." the engineer said.

"We think we have both situtations under control." Pumps to help Pearson said the pumps in Millard County would partially make up for the loss of wooden irrigation flumes washed away in the flood. The aqueducts diverted water from the Sevier River to DMAD customers in the Delta area, 100 miles south of Salt Lake City. In Deseret. Swalberg said about 300 volunteers from Millard County have helped clean up the Delta-area community hardest hit by flooding. "A store in Deseret has been condemned.

It will have to be bulldozed. I think several other buildings are a total loss, but I don't know how many for sure." Pearson said. Federal Emergency Management Administration officials were scheduled to survey the damage Monday but postponed the evaluation until Thursday. The FEMA team includes experts who can determine whether homes and other buildings are DELTA, Utah UPI -About 30 flood-plagued De-seret families were back in their homes and farmers worked overnight to get water to crops left parched by the failure of an irrigation dam but attention centered on two other leaking dams. "About 30 families have moved back into their homes," said Glen Swalberg, president of the local Mormon Stake.

"The rest of them are within a couple of days of getting into their homes." Not salvageable He said about 10 of the 60-70 homes flooded by a five-foot-deep lake from the failure of the earthen DMAD irrigation dam are not salvageable. Disaster relief officials said farmers worked through the night to install nine high-velocity pumps to lift water from the Sevier River to 70.000 acres of arid farmland cut off from irrigation systems when the DMAD collapsed June 23. County Administrator Robyn Pearson said another half dozens pumps were needed to save crops, valued at $400 per acre. Another earthen dam, 48 miles east of the flood-ravaged Millard County, was under repair Tuesday to prevent record spring runoff from causing a repeat of the DMAD disaster. State Water Engineer Dee Hansen said the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers was dispatched to replace a failing spillway at the Gunnison Reservoir. He said leaks had undermined the spillway. Draining water "They're building an emergency replacement for the spillway. They're using concrete, so once it's in we should have no more problem." said Hansen. In northern Utah, Hansen said, workers were draining water from the leaking Hobbs Reservoir in Davis County, Flood fighting's costly SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah National Guard did $1.4 million worth of emergency disaster relief work for the state this past fiscal year the largest amount in more than 20 years, officials said.

Major Gen. John L. Matthews, Utah adjutant general, said the guard spent 4,000 man days.and 1.722 'I know he'll be home' vehicle days using loaders, water trucKs. DacKnoes. sedans and five and 20-ton dump trucks to fight floods and mudslides throughout the state.

The guard also used helicopters tor about 140 hours during its flood control efforts. PROVO, Utah (UPI) The mother of Air Force Capt. Lynn Kesler Powell says she is both "happy and sad" that During the Memorial Day weeKena, tne guara flew more than 500,000 sandbags into Utah when a river was being built on 1300 East in Salt Lake City to control spring runoff from the mountains. Matthews said. He said the guard helped 39 cities and towns in the Connected Lakes homes flooded by the Colorado state.

Matthews said of the $1.4 million worth oi work, the state will be directly billed only $264,000 for the emergency work. If national disaster terms are applied, the state's share of that will be only about $66,000. 'Back to square one' SALT LAKE CITY UPI The former boyfriend of the mother of missing 6-year-old Troy Ward has been cleared in the disappearance of the boy. police said. Salt Lake City Police Detective Lt.

Ed Johnson said the man was questioned extensively Tuesday son dead, because shortly after he was declared missing in action the Vietnamese sent a picture of his plane with a picture of Powell laid over it to two newspapers. She said she has also seen pictures of his wallet and dogtags that the Vietnamese sent to news organizations. She praised the Air Force. "They are seeing to our every need," she said. "They have been marvelous to us and it shows what a marvelous country this is." The flier was a 1964 graduate of Brig-ham Young University in Provo.

majoring in linguistics. He graduated with honors from BYU's ROTC program with honors. He also fulfilled a religious mission for the Mormon Church in the Switzerland-Austria region. Powell was married, but his mother refused to talk about his wife, who obtained a divorce while Powell was missing in action. Mrs.

Powell said funeral arrangements are still pending, but he will be interred at Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City, next to his her son is finally coming home, sixteen years was a long time to wait to learn the flier had been killed over Vietnam. "We are feeling very good about receiving the news of his remains being returned," said Ellen Powell, mother of the F-105 pilot shot down over Vietnam in 1967. "We are happy and sad at the same time. It's been 16 years, and that's a long time to worry about your son. I'm the type of mother that wants her children home by 10, and now I know he'll be home." Mrs.

Powell is the widow of Kesler Powell, who died a year after their son was shot down Aug. 21, 1967. The Air Force notified Mrs. Powell Tuesday that her son's remains were among nine handed over to U.S. envoys in Hanoi June 3.

The remains will be flown from Hawaii to Travis Air Force Base. Thursday, and will be given to the next of kin, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Mrs. Powell said she had thought her GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (UPI) Gov.

Richard Lamm says flood damage from the swollen Colorado River, which forced up io 1,000 people from their homes, will likely not justify much federal aid but some state aid may be available. "We have to be realistic," said Lamm, who toured the waterlogged Connected Lakes residential area outside Grand Junction's city limits Tuesday. f. "The aid situation is very tight." i But Lt. Gov.

Nancy I i Dick, who toured the I area separately, said she I was "looking at some (state) catastrophe f'-' funds that are avail- able." I I Tf 1 reasonably fortunate state," she said. Water from the Colorado, which reached its highest level in more than six decades Sunday, flooded a few Connected Lakes homes after bursting through an earthen dike on Monday, but receded before reaching another 100 homes in the area. Several homes a mile upstream had water up to their doorways, officials said, and crews used bulldozers Tuesday to reinforce a second makeshift dike at Connected Lakes that was thrown into place after the first levee broke. Although flood warnings remained in effect for both the Colorado and the Gunnison River, which joins the Colorado at Grand Junction, the National Weather Service said the Colorado dropped 4-6 inches Tuesday and was forecast to continue its retreat. "The Gunnison is down several inches and the Colorado is down at least a couple of inches," said Mesa County sheriff's Capt.

Bob Silva. "We lifted the mandatory evacuation order as of 9 a.m." Silva said he was "comfortable" that there would be no further wash-out of the earthen dike that burst Monday. State highway crews Tuesday reopened the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 along a four-mile stretch west of Grand Junction, which had been covered by high water from the Colorado on Sunday. The westbound lanes remained closed. nut wp'll ha vp tn fix A them," said Mrs.

Dick, who declared a state of emergency in the Grand Colorado Gov. junction area on Mon Snow runoff keeps coming officials say Richard Lamm Mrs. Dick said she was "impressed" by the force and he apparently has no knowledge ot tne disappearance. "The investigation is pretty much back to square one," he said. Troy, the son of Cherl Ward, Salt Lake City, disappeared last Wednesday from a street corner near his home in the central section of the city.

Johnson said finding the boy "is still our number one priority. It's on the front burner." But he said the situation is "grim and getting worse every hour he's gone. Leads in the case are fewer and further between." Utah may lose $77 million SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) Recent statements by the Environmental Protection Association's new administrator means Utah is in line to lose $77 mi-lion in federal highway funds, a state health official has warned. Burnell Cordner, assistant director of the Utah Bureau of Air Quality, pointed to remarks EPA Director William Ruckelshauss said in a recent speech in Atlanta. Ruckelshaus said he no longer intends to impose sanctions in certain cases where states don't comply with EPA air quality guidelines, but he will "impose some funding restrictions on those states that have not yet implemented a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program." "That puts Utah right in line for sanctions." said Cordner.

of the river and "thankful" that damage was "not as severe as I was afraid it might have been." "If the river continues to fall, we'll come out in a WiTO! 30.00 29.77 1 10W l-v 30.CQ Lf. 1 OW Ti AT I yr I i BOSTON NEW YORK PARKER, Ariz. (UPI) Federal officials say they will have to release more water from Colorado River dams because of fast-melting mountain snow and runoff from thunderstorms, threatening to flood more homes and burst levies near the Mexican border. County officials on the California and Arizona sides of the river said the additional flows would cause the river to rise another 2 to 31 2 feet, bringing flood-waters to homes along the route. The U.S.

Bureau of Reclamation Tuesday urged residents along the river to buy more flood insurance. "Any action people take to prevent damage should be backed with flood insurance so they're covered in case the worst happens," said Les Bond, Arizona's coordinator of the National Flood Insurance Program. That insurance covers losses and makes the property eligible for other federal disaster relief. releases from Hoover, Davis and Parker dams are due to rise to nearly 374,000 gallons a second on July 5. Wesley E.

Steiner, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, said the releases planned July 5 would increase river flows near Yuma to an average of about 250,000 gallons per second. Oscar Sanchez, an expert on the Colorado River in Mexico, said levies near the border were designed to withstand flows of up to about 210,000 gallons a second. Steiner said if federal officials increase water flows as planned next week. "I'd hazard the opinion those levies are in deep trouble." Mexican officials feared dikes southeast of Mexicali might collapse under pressure of higher water. Baja California police said dike failures could force evacuation of 25,000 people from the cities of Coahilla and Victoria City.

On high ground near the river, the Mexican Army dug latrines and stocked emergency shelters with food. Five-thousand people fled their homes in Mexico last week and 60.000 acres of farm land were flooded. In spite of the additional releases Tuesday between Parker Dam and the U.S.-Mexican border to the south, many riverside resorts in the "parker Strip" remained open and looking for holiday weekend business. The planned discharges would force evacuations of a still-undetermined number of residents on the California side south of Parker Dam. officials predicted.

About 300 workers from the California Conservation Corps were planning to help sandbag the river front. George Pond, batallion chief for the San Bernardino County Fire Department and California Department of Forestry, said, "It would mean half again as much flooding as we have had and it would mean evacuations on the California side that we haven't had." Pond said. Tuesday's releases brought water up to the floor level of about 17 trailers at the River Land Resort on the California side south of Parker Dam, Pond said. (ViM3S? SAN FRANCISCO DENVER LOW V-V LOS ANGELES 1 29 53 ATLANTA LOWEST DALLAS HlprA TEMPERATURES 70 SHOWERS FJow Mil annuo Have you tried the Sugar Loaf lately? In the tradition of a fine country kitchen, the Sugar Loaf sparkles with brass and warm tones, of oak, Homefresh" MM (ICC goodness with country-charm atmospnere. We've changed the way we look! I T7e.l 1 aWV aw ev rv 3 Oct Moinei 79 71 .49 Detroit 70 58 .30 OuMfi 69 51 High Low Pes.

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