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Tucson, Wednesday, August 30, 1995 Sfc Arizona Jteiin Star Section Page Three Ibarra Treated TCE water returns to the pipeline Road to reduce its TCE content to below the federal limit. The treated water goes to downtown, most of the westside and parts of the north-side into the Catalina Foothills at Country Club Road a V-shaped area between Silverlake Road and Sunset and Roller Coaster roads. By Keith Bagwell The Arizona Daily Star Tucson Water has resumed delivery of water from its southside TCE treatment plant to 50,000 downtown, westside and north-central Tucson customers. Mitch Basefsky, the city utility's spokesman, said water deliveries began Monday, two weeks after they were halted because of Aug. 11 storm damage to a 7.3-million-gallon reservoir.

Tucson Water diverts 9 million gallons a day of treated TCE water, and 5 million gallons a day of water from a southside well field, past the damaged concrete reservoir at West 18th Street and South Osborne Avenue, he said. ations when they just take money from taxpayers in Ward 1 and shoot it out to the outside edges of the city?" he asked. "Some annexations might make sense on a case to case basis, but I think we need a more passive policy." He also said the city should first improve the roads and bus service used by longtime taxpayers in Ward 1 before widening roads to serve outlying developments. "My priorities are clear," he said. "Ward 1 first, then the city." Ibarra faces Rudy Bejarano, Irma Yepez-Perez, Luis Gonzales and Ruben Romero in the Sept.

19 Democratic primary. The winner will face Republican Ray Fontaine and Libertarian Scott Stewart in the. Nov. 7 general election. The Aug.

1 1 storm severely damaged the reservoir's synthetic rubber cover. Basefsky said the water, in which traces of TCE remain, is not blended with cleaner water to the extent it was when the reservoir was active. He said there is some blending in pipes carrying water to a service area where it is used. TCE is trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent that causes cancers in laboratory animals. It contaminates ground water in a 5-square-mile plume between Hughes Missile Systems Co.

and Interstate 19 near Ajo Way. Contaminated water is treated in a plant near the Santa Cruz River at South Irvington Continued from Page IB opposes simply blending CAP water with ground water to dilute its harmful effects. "You're just mixing bad with good, and I don't support that," he said. He also said the city should stop using water from southside wells tainted with trichloroethyl-ene, or TCE. Tucson Water now cleans that water and ships it to customers, but Ibarra said he doesn't trust that process.

Ibarra opposes a proposal to bring the proposed Rocking Ranch into the city and said the city ought to ease off its aggressive annexation policy. "Why should I support annex et Read the Star's prior stories on the damaged reservoir. Search the electronic archive with the terms "storm AND damage AND reservoir AND August AND year-1995." Tourists' van rolls, killing 7, injuring 7 near Hoover Dam Yaqui Council candidate Romero sidelined by heart attack The casino building will be renovated, in part to reflect Yaqui and Southwestern motifs rather than Las Vegas-style glitter, Rubio said. Although some tribes, such as the Fort McDowell Indian Community, distribute gaming revenues as cash payments to members, the Yaquis put all profits back into tribal services and development of jobs. The Yaquis, who received full federal recognition as a U.S.

tribe last year, number more than 8,600. Most live on the reservation or in communities in the Tucson and Phoenix areas, including Guadalupe. Last year, the tribe and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $6 million program to replace 80 substandard homes on the reservation and 16 in Guadalupe. treatment, Myers said.

He did not know where the seventh injured person was taken. DPS Sgt. Ben Smith said the van apparently ran off the right side of the road and that its driver overcorrected, causing the van to overturn while en route back to Las Vegas. "It rolled one time, ejecting seven passengers from the van," Smith said. Television reports from the scene showed the van lying on its side in a ditch along a mountainside.

Debris was scattered over the highway, blocking traffic in both directions. The accident was the worst in Arizona since 10 people were killed in a 24-car pileup in April on Interstate 10 near Bowie in southeast Arizona. WILLOW BEACH (AP) A van retvirning from the Grand Canyon overturned on U.S. 93 near Hoover Dam yesterday, killing seven people and injuring seven others, state authorities said. Names and hometowns of the victims were not immediately available but the National Park Service said all passengers were believed to be from Taiwan, making it the second major Arizona accident involving Taiwanese tourists in less than a year.

The midafternoon accident about 14 miles southeast of the Arizona-Nevada border involved only the 15-passenger van, said Sgt. Dave Myers of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Four of the injured were taken to a hospital in Las Vegas and two were taken to Kingman for Continued from Page IB dialysis treatment center, is sorely needed in a community plagued by high rates of diabetes, Rubio said. The clinic is the first step in the Tribal Council's goal of some day starting its own HMO, providing a health-care delivery system that doesn't rely on the fed? eral bureaucracy, he said. Also scheduled to be built within the next year is a building to serve "the educational needs of the community, focusing on issues of language, literacy, and culture, and allowing the tribe to have a direct link to the education of its community members," Chairman Arcadio Gastellum said in a press release.

The casino means the tribe finally "has the ability to implement these programs, which have long been needed in the Yaqui community," he said. By Joe Salkowski The Arizona Daily Star City Council candidate Ruben Romero said his recent heart attack will not stall his campaign. "The- campaign is not stressful, at least in my mind I'm enjoying it," Romero, 60, said yesterday from his room at St. Mary's Hospital. "This has delayed me from getting some stuff done, but I'll be back on the trail again." Romero, among five Democrats seeking the westside Ward One seat, suffered a heart attack Saturday afternoon while exercising at a Gym's Fitness Aerobics, 1290 W.

Prince Road. "About halfway through my routine, my chest kind of restricted and I got a tingling feeling in my neck up to my ears," he said, adding that he'd ignored similar symptoms during his workout the previous week. This time, he said, he drove straight home and was taken to St. Mary's by his children. After he spent a day in intensive care, Romero's condition was upgraded and he was moved to a standard room.

He remained in the hospital yesterday and said he expected to be released today or tomorrow. "They said it looks pretty good," he said. "It doesn't look like anything too bad." Romero said his doctors blamed the heart attack on a blood clot and instructed him to end his longtime smoking habit. His doctor also told him to rest for a week before resuming campaign activities, he said. LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Reference: Proposed Amendment to Federal Transit Administration Grant AZ-03-0019-00.

Federal Transit Act, 49 U.S.C. Section 5309 I. Notice is hereby given that, having received no written request (s) to hold a public hearing, pursuant to the Notice of Public Hearing which appeared in the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen on Friday, August 11, 1995, the City of Tucson hereby cancels the proposed public hearing. This grant application will be presented to Mayor Council on Monday, September 11, 1995 for their consideration. i TBS FOLLOWINd 13 TEE FIMAL PROGRAM OF PROJECTS The original grant award contained a Federal amount of $720,000 for the purchase of five (5) new 30 ft Accessible Bu3es for expansion.

The requested grant amendment would use the same Federal Grant amount of $720,000 for the purchase of three (3) new 40 ft. Accessible Buses for replacement. The original grant award also contained a Federal amount of $220,000 for the purchase and installation of three (3) new enhanced bus passenger shelters. The requested grant amendment would use $60,000 of the Federal grant amount toward the purchase of the three (3) replacement: buses listed above. The remaining $215,000 would be added to the amount of $952,000 previously approved in the grant award for the purchase and installation of a new vehicle locating system.

The level of Federal and Local funding previously approved by Grant AZ-03-0019 will not be affected by this Amendment. a. Fclocatipn No persons, families, or businesses will be displaced by the projects contained in this grant amendment. b. Environment' All equipment purchased will be in compliance with Air Quality Standards.

All necessary environmental work will be completed with regard to construction projects. Construction will be done within Air Quality Standards. C. Comprehensive Planning The capital projects in this grant amendment are in conformance with comprehensive land use and transportation planning for the area and are consistent with the adopted programming of projects in the current Transportation Improvement Program for the City of Tucson urbanised area. D.

Elderly and Handicapped The capital projects in this grant amendment take into consideration the special transportation needs of the elderly and persons with disabilities by the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act continuing half-fares for all hours of operation; and purchasing all new buses with wheelchair lifts. E. Charter Bus. Operations Pursuant to the Federal Transit Administration's charter regulations, the City of Tucson operates incidental charter service only to the extent that there are no private charter service operators willing and able to provide the charter service. F.

School Pus Pperfttiona The City of Tucson does not operate exclusive school bus service. G. Private Enterprise The Capital Projects contained in this grant amendment will not negatively impact any private provider of public transportation services in the Tucson area. An individual health plan designed by someone special. You.

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