Price City each month sends a representative to Castle Country Radio to keep listeners posted or informed on various topics. This month brought in Price City Public Works Director, Miles Nelson who spoke on water conservation, flooding precautions and free landfill usage.

We have had a great winter this year that has brought lots of snow to the area and we hope that it fills our reservoirs this year.  “I just checked this morning we’re about 200 percent of normal on the top of the mountain both at White River and up on top Mammoth Cottonwood. On Mammoth Cottonwood that equates to about 7 feet of snow, and 31 inches of water up there. Then on White River, we’re about 5 feet of snow, with 18 inches of water equivalent, so there’s a lot of water to come down the mountain. The challenge is we only get to capture the Mammoth Cottonwood side, we don’t get to capture the White River side,” stated Nelson. Currently, Scofield Reservoir is 26 percent full so this Spring run-off will put some water back into the reservoir this year.

Although this year’s water totals are a great improvement it’s still important to utilize the conservation practices, we’ve learned during the severe drought. “We hope that the citizens would continue their great practices of conservation, in spite of a good year. We have a lot of water this year but that doesn’t mean we’ll have water every year. So as we continue those conservation practices – watering wisely and using our water wisely, we’re going to have our water resources taken care of in the future as well,” said Nelson. The city is just asking people to be conscientious about their watering habits again this summer.

The weather changing and snow melting is going to mean we may see some flooding in the area. “We don’t know what the flooding situation will be this year, it all depends on the weather. When the snowpack melts and comes down, how fast it comes down, how slow it comes down, we don’t know. We hope it comes down gradually and everything is fine but Mother Nature can be very unpredictable. So what we’ve done in the past is we’ve made sandbags available for citizens that are concerned about their properties. They’re welcome to come get them, there’s no charge for those, they’re available 24/7 in our yard, in our parking lot there at the Domes there on 600 South, so come on down to the Public Works Office and pick up what you need for protecting your property,” stated Nelson. It’s a wise decision that if you’ve had flooding issues in the past, to get on top of protecting your property beforehand.

The city will not host their annual Price City Clean-up again this year but are asking citizens to take advantage of the free landfill days that the county is hosting.  “They’ve declared that April 22 through May 6 the landfill will be open for free to residents to dump. That will not include businesses but it will be available to residents who want to clean up their properties and take that out to the dump – there’s no charge for that. So we encourage people to take advantage of that generosity from the county to do that and to take care of their yards, and make Price beautiful, we all need to take pride in our community,” said Nelson.

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