Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 19

Rapid City Journal Local Obituaries, C2 Religion, C4-6 Comics, C8, 9 0 Weather, C10 rj Saturday April 14, 2001 Bureau set to work on Pactola Dam i Students brighten family's holiday A local woman and her four children will have an especially HZ? City bright EaM- er this year thanks to students In the St. Thomas More High Sc hool Spanish Club, The students delivered a full ham dinner, stuffed animals, plastic eggs filled with candy and a gilt certificate for 104 to the mother and her children, Spanish teacher Donna Eliason said. Each year, Spanish Club members do three community projects, delivering food baskets to needy mothers and their children. Students Erovide food and gifts for the askets, which are delivered through local service agencies. This year's Spanish Club prepared a Thanksgiving basket for a family chosen through Catholic Social Services and a Christmas basket with gifts for a family served by Working Against Violence Inc.

The Bureau of Reclamation will change the outlet works at Pactola djj Dam weM of Rapid ETCf City this fall, The bureau will open bids on the 'Pactola Dam Outlet Works Modification" project on May 17, according to the bureau's Rapid City office manager, Jeff Nettleton, The work is scheduled to run from Sept. 4 through mid-October. The contractor will build a 10-inch bypass pipeline in the outlet works and will clean and iaspect the outlet works stilling basin. The bypass pipeline will allow a continuous release to Rapid Creek to be maintained while cleaning and Inspection of the stilling basin is accomplished," Nettleton said. Nettleton is Informing all water users on Rapid Creek about the required work and the impact on water flows.

During the construction period, releases from Pactola will be limited to 15 cubic feet of water per second (cs.) Normally, releases during September and October run at 35 cfs and range from 10 tolOO cfs. Last year's releases during that period were 50 cfs at the start of September and were down to 35 cfs by mid-October. Nettleton said. Don Potovich, y's The Bureau of Reclamation will work on the outlet at Pactola Dam this fall. A 10-inch bypass pipeline will be installed so workers can clean and inspect the stilling basin.

finis auresn irirv(D)nirs Bureau of Reclamation unveils alternatives for Orman Dam k'aslng any water from that slowly rising reservoir. Inflows at Keyhole In 2000 were the lowest In the 48-ycar history of the dam. Current Inflows also arc slightly below average. Belle Fourche Reservoir Is well above Its average level for this time of year. The reservoir, also known as Orman Dam, is 1.5 feet from full and is rising slowly.

Water Is diverted from the Belle Fourche River through an Inlet canal and Into the reservoir. Currently, all the water Is being sent down the Belle Fourche River. Shadehlll Reservoir on the Grand River near Lemmon Is 1.3 feet Into the flood pool, The reservoir began spilling March 16 and peaked In Its discharge March 25 at 700 cfs, Shadehlll still Is dumping 550 cfs, which Anderson said is not a large spill for this time of year, Angostura Reservoir near Hot Springs has risen 8 feet since September and currently Is 2.5 feet from full. Inflows have been above average, Anderson said. Bodies of water In western South Dakota and eastern Rapid City Wyoming are storing up runoff from winter snows and spring rains.

Five of the six Bureau of Reclamation reservoirs have pulled In above-average spring Inflows. Pactola Reservoir west of Rapid Clly Is 5 Inches from full, Bureau of Reclamation engineer Curt Anderson said, Anderson said water flow into Pactola has Increased with recent rains to about 100 cubic feet per second (cfs). March Inflows were 20 percent higher than the average for March, The bureau currently Is releasing 90 cfs out of Pactola into Rapid Creek. Deerfleld Reservoir west of Hill City showed above-average Inflow this winter, With current Inflows averaging 30 cfs, the reservoir Is 8 Inches from full. The bureau Is releasing water at a rate of 25 cfs.

Keyhole Reservoir near Moorcroft, is 2.5 feet from full with 23,000 acre feet of room. The bureau is not re- 'W. will use the information from this open bouse to select a preferred alternative and complete a draft -aytftntai apMfwPJW ftW 0svBntsvV" reservoir and public lands surrounding It. Although the reservoir Is primarily an Irrigation-water source, It also provides primitive camping, boating, hunting, fishing, livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. Increased use of the reservoir has caused erosion, acci Courtaty photo Grammar pitfalls snag wordsmiths A party early Friday morning at a downtown Rapid City bar got a little too cozy for police comfort.

Page C2 After two years of searching, Bob Kothe found the perfect cabin for a Campbell County museum. Page C7 In brief Honor Camp boosts security NEWCASTLE, Wyo. IAP) The Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp has Improved security and warning systems after a kidnapping by two escaped convicts, a prison spokeswoman said, The minimum-security facility now can automatically dial residents' phone numbers with a recorded message to alert them of an escape, A recent test showed the Alert-cast Emergency Notification System made 101 calls In five minutes, spokeswoman Martha Lcnardson said. The changes follow the alleged escape of two inmates, Sargent Majors, 35, and Benjamin Monlez, 20, on Dec, 4. The men allegedly carjacked and kidnapped Janice Whitley, 63, of Newcastle, three days after having walked away from the camp, Whitley was rescued by authorities as they arrested Majors near Junction City, six days after the escape, Montez was arrested around the same time by FBI in Lansing, Mich.

Water quality becomes issue GILLETTE, Wyo, IAP) -A coal-bed methane st udy group Is at odds over how to monitor water quality In rivers running through Montana and Wyoming. Abe Horpestad. supervisor of the Resource Protection Planning Bureau of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, said the group tentatively agreed to seek an objective third party. The MontanaWyoming Technical Work Group was set up by both states to determine whether water from coal-bed methane wells Is polluting the Powder, Little Powder and Tongue rivers, and to what extent, A primary concern Is that the water adds salt to the rivers, which could render them unusable for Irrigation. By Tim Veltfer Northern Hills Bureau After a year-and-a-half of work, the Bureau of Reclama- Bellfl Fourche mmmm four alternatives for the future management of lands around the Belle Fourche Reservoir and Orman Dam In Butte County.

The plans will be available for public Inspection at an open house at Belle Fourche Area Community Center from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19. The bureau assembled a focus group of citizens and government agents to develop a plan for public use of the reservoir, The Bureau of Reclamation governs the use of the Doppler By Dan Daly Journal Staff Writer Cable TV customers In Wall, New Underwood, Philip and J. Kadoka soon might Wall be able to tune In a live Doppler radar view of western South Dakota day or night, according to Golden West Cos, The Wall-based telecommunications company has become a partner with KELO-TV of Sioux Falls to Install a Doppler radar station Just' north of Wall.

KELO's other Installations are near Huron and Sioux Falls, and KELO officials say they can now track storms from the Wyoming state Une Into Minnesota. Golden West's Dwlght Flatt said the company might broadcast the radar Image on a cable channel 24 hours a i dents, crime and litter, bureau officials say. "We want to visit with the public on various alternatives Reclamation has developed, Faye Streler of the bureau's Rapid City office said. "We will use the Information from this open house to select a preferred alternative and complete a draft plan." The four alternatives range from no change In current management to strict guarding of Orman's resources. The "no action" alternative Is required by federal regulation.

Bureau engineer Kenneth Parr said that under this plan, no changes would be made unless the law Is changed or health or safety Issues needed to be addressed. See Orman, Page C2 The live Doppler radar station north of Wall, which went online earlier this month, is part of KELO-TV's network that can track storms from the Wyoming state line Into Minnesota. Doppler system offers weather snapshots that are more immediate that the National Weather Service's Doppler radar network, called NexRad. The NWS station Is north of New Underwood, "NexRad Is an excellent radar network, but It has one drawback: By the time radar pictures are processed and distributed, the pictures are 6 to 20 minutes old," said KELO General Manager Mark Antoni-tls. KELO-TV said It chose the site north of Wall because of Golden West's technology and the location's radar view.

Its 75-mlle optimum range and 150-mlle effective range allows weather mapping as far away as Spearflsh and Pierre. Conteot rtportw Dan Daly at 3M-8421 or a-mail him at dan.daly0rapldolty)ournal.oom. TO radar might go on air Thursday afternoon, I asked Jim Holland, who covers law enforcement and the courts for the Rapid City Journal, to check out the "lay, He" entry on puges 116-117 of The Associated Press Stylebook. Using the Incorrect form of "He" or "lay" Is such an easy grammatical mistake to make, and Jim had made It two days running In stories about a man who was run over by a car near Farmlngdale, Both days, Jim had written that the man was "laying" on Highway 44 when he was struck by the car. And both days, I changed the word to "lying" before finally alerting Jim to his error.

"Yeah, 'lay' Is a transitive verb," West River Editor Steve Miller chimed In, to which 1 thought, "What the heck does that mean?" It's been a long time (maybe too long) since I've delved Into a Harbrace Handbook or other grammar tome. That means you're doing something, like 'laying' It on the table," Steve explained, apparently reading my thoughts. I don't mean to pick on Jim. Each of us has his or her grammatical or word-use pitfalls. It took me a long time to get "He, lay" straight, and I still occasionally look It up In the stylebook.

Ron Nntfar "I have a marker In that page," Editor Peg Sagen admitted. I also have been known more than once to write that someone was "peddling" a bicycle, and I constantly check the dictionary for the correct spelling of "occurred," "harassed" and "embarrassed," The spell-check function on my computer Is my friend. I asked Thursday's night crew In the newsroom for more examples, and reporter Denlse Ross and copy editors Phyllis Person, Amy Phillips Bursch, Barbara Tomovlck and Vanessa Hastings were happy to oblige, Their voices gradually rose as they warmea to the task, "One that really bothers me Is the use of 'entitled' when the writer means Phyllis said, "And I see that In all kinds of publications." (The novel Is not "entitled" such and such). See Bander, Page C2 day, seven days a week. 1 le said the company would start with the Wall cable system, which serves subscribers In Wall, New Underwood, Philip and Kadoka.

If It works out there, Golden West would put the same picture on one of the cable channels In the Kyle system, which serves Kyle, Evergreen, Man-dcrson, Wanblee and Martin. KELO will broadcast the images during Its newscasts and during storms. Viewers throughout western South Dakota can tune In. The cable channel will let Golden West cable customers check the weather routinely, Flatt said. "If you've got that baseball game tonight and you're wondering If the rainstorm Is coming In, you can tune in," he said.

Officials at KELO said their tzx bt. t2. Co i fcssn ecn iri ttxlcarlceaiitm emrfs? C3I Cctia it 4443. fcii 1.