Jackson Hole News from Jackson, Wyoming • 1

HJ BCCy Ct Cottonwood Park no longer 'affordable' say agents. See page OA. 50 CENTS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1 992 JACKSON, WYOMING Town sewer plant needs $10 million upgrade to survive By Craig Welch The Town of Jackson's $7 million sewer plant has never worked properly, town officials admitted Monday, and will cost an additional million to upgrade. However, while the town's waste burden grows, plans for the long-anticipate ed sewer reconstruction could be stymied because property the town purchased for expansion is a wetland. Immediately following construction of the plant in 1981, the site's high water table caused a slowdown in the three-part treatment procese.

Groundwater problems later forced the town to resume discharging treated sewage into Flat Creek a practice the plant was designed to prevent. "That type of plant was not suited for that location," Town Councilman Mike Gierau said of the South Park site. "The plant was a new technology that had not really been tested. In theory it worked. In Cody it worked.

Here it didn't." A spokesman for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality said that although parts of the plant don't work right and other parts don't work at all, Jackson's effluent meets all state safety requirements. The location of a new sewer plant was hotly debated and was a central land-use planning battle of the late 1970s. One faction believed the plant should be built in its current location so it could eventually serve development in South Park. An opposing faction argued the location would prematurely encourage development of ranchlands south of Jackson. The plant was designed to reach capacity in 1995, and has limped closer to that point in recent years.

If the plant isn't expanded by that time, state stan-Continued on page 16A rr v- I If Md Li Trui Dw? riUf Ulka with Ski TV New legislative plan isolates Wilson in House, Senate districts pay in tie Lite or t. v. -i i' 'fit I I I i ain't art, but it's fim Ha meant it compliment. But it'i bot 6lwB-7 so dear. Th idea i a simple one: give three By Angus M.

Thuermer Jr. Wilson residents will become disenfranchised by a reapportionment plan adopted Monday that makes them a minority among Lincoln County voters in both House and Senate districts. A state legislative committee charged with adopting a redistricting plan selected one Monday that will be presented to the entire legislature Feb. 10 in a special session in Cheyenne. But the plans do not treat Teton County voters well, dividing the county into three House districts and two for the Senate.

"The Wilson precinct is totally disenfranchised now," complained Teton County Commission Chairman Steve Thomas after returning from the committee meeting in Casper Tuesday evening, "They will not have a representative or a senator. As far as I'm concerned, it's totally unacceptable." The joint interim committee on corporations, elections and political subdivisions adopted the House and Senate plans Monday after weeks of debate and hearings in parts of the 6tate. The committee voted 9-5, along strict party lines with Democrats in the minority, to select the reapportionment plan from four that it had considered and forward it to the legislature for adoption. In selecting the plan, the committee chose a house reapportionment proposal authored by Rep. Eli Bebout (D -Fremont) and amended by the committee.

The Senate plan was authored by Sen Gary Yordy (R -Laramie). The reapportionment plans were mandated by a federal court that said Wyoming had to redraw its Continued on page 17A men access to two hours of lSv tteriioi leWsion time and see what they By Ann Oordm couldn't do tkia In a city. Who would (piT TV t-' tioc?" tiki EM TV iwodoocr Patrick hcur. WLi, idi.ed. Well, thi iat oo big city, jrowug men, md did jr-va yira a TV ahow.

For better or worse, TV took ow tlrf airwaves of Ch-iuinei 18 nine week end has lw filled with momenti jhit, unadulterated ninmi eacb morning ltwccn 6.ra. end Actor end 'Wy resident Harrison Ford crIWI Bid IV reW.y dm IwiaS." can do with it. What they do is often fresh -id hOarious or it's not. For thw who have not flipped on the tube to catch Ski TV, a brief explanation rosy be in order. The show is produced by Mtdia works and underwritten by local advertisers like the Orthopaedic Institute of Jackson.

The lofty idea is to giv viewers some sense of what it's like to Isve and py in the valley during the winter months. Continued on page If A.