12 Thursday, July 10, 1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
Pahrump, 1W
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left on Bank to dead end.
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Youth center debate continues
Continued from front page
a prototype youth center the board could see.
He said there are requests for a sports
complex, ping-pong, pool and so many
things, he'd like to see an operating center.
Board Chairman, Charlotte LeVar con-
curred saying even a video would work. She
said, "there has never
been one generalcon-
sensus (for a youth
center)."
Bob Tomaro, an
active and long time
proponent for a youth
center, said this was a
"false statement." He
said he had presented
a complete plan.
Fitzgibbons said,
'T m not here to make
a proposal. We don't
want this to die. The
community of Pahr-
ump is behind it. We
will get you a proto-
type."
Lisa Mendel,
Youth Center project coordinator for No to
Abuse, said she didn't know about PFRC
and would like to be involved. "We have
three different groups not quite working
together."
Mendel said No To Abuse plans to open
its Youth Center Monday, July 14, pending
approval of the state fire marshall of a metal
building donated by Preferred Equities Corp.
Volunteers gathered to clean and repair the
structure and put an operating system in
place in response to a rapid increase in
juvenile crime when school closed for the
summer. Mendel stressed the "temporary"
status of the center•
Tomaro said he had asked many times
for the people to form one unit. He then
revisited the funding issue when monies
were allocated by both Town and County
tbr a youth center that became a proposed
multi-purpose center.
Naming LeVar and Board Members
Steve Rainbolt and Charlie Gronda, Tomaro
said, "You used the money because we had
it. We had $175,000. You handed over
$8,000 as a gift and took the $100,000. You,
Charlotte LeVar, didn't allow one second of
discussion. You people had a plan. You are
going around in circles. There needs to be a
beginning and an end. During the election,
we heard from all three of you that you were
going to listen to the people• Stop listening
and do something."
Tomaro's reference to an $8,000 "gift"
was money used to fund a survey that LeVar
said only had six re-
sponses. Following
the survey the Town
Board released the
$100,000 allocated by
the county for the cen-
ter. The $100,000 has
since been designated
to fund an addition to
the town office build-
ing to house a county
planning official. I
Earlier in the dis Ir
cussion Rainbolt said,
"The $100,000 no
YOUTH ADVOCATE-Lisa Mendel longer exists." The
town still has $67,000
set aside for a youth
center.
Diana Stiles
asked if the $100,000 had been allocated by
the county for a youth center, LeVar said the
money was for a project and not specific.
McRae said at the time of the request for the
money, it was for a youth center.
Stiles said, "If the money was given
for a youth center, it belongs to the youth
center• The board had to vote to return it to
the county."
Ron Tewell spoke from the audience.
Retired from law enforcement, Tewell said
he and his wife don't have children, but
want to make it clear the town needs to do
something. "If you don't do something
now it will be too late. It will cost more
later at $20,000 a year to put them in a
cage. Go forward, don't play games•;' The
audience clapped in support.
The board did do something. They de-
cided to put an action to revive the former
Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on
the agenda for the July 22, 1997, meeting.
Elimination of the advisory board was
spearheaded by Rainbolt in 1996.
The board also decided, as soon as the
new advisory board is functional, to ask
the advisory group to make recommenda-
tions in regard to a community youth cen-
ter.
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Earthquake concerns behind
Yucca Mountain study
by Geoff Kreis
Faultlines that run along Yucca Moun-
tain have some people concerned that nuclear
waste that will be stored there in the future
could leak into groundwater supplies.
The facility that is being designed to
house the waste on the mountain in central
Nye County, is supposed to be able to prop-
erly store nuclear waste such as plutonium
and tritium for a period of 10,000 years.
Studies recently done by the University of
Colorado at Boulder however, say that earth-
quakes of a magnitude 5.0 or greater are
very likely to occur within that time frame.
Physics Research Associates John B.
Davies and Charles Archambeau conducted
studies in which computer modeling, geo-
logical data of the area, quake history, and
about 20 test walls were used to try and
predict how well the Yucca MountaAn site
would hold up in the event of a large quake.
What they found was that in a magnitude 5.0
or greater, the water table beneath the earth' s
surface rose high enough to prompt flood-
ing. This flooding could lead to'corrosion of
storage containers which would in turn, erode
and leak into the groundwater supplies.
According to geophysicists, investiga-
tions into faults have been used to character-
i ze the potentials and drawbacks of a nuclear
waste storage facility in the mountain.
Studying the faultlines along the mountain
is a critical element in determining the
safety and reliability of Yucca Mountain as
the nation's waste repository.
Fault line maps show there are many
seismic faults that run along the mountain.
Some estimates place the actual total at
nearly 3,000 faults with about one-third of
those having the potential to release earth-
quakes strong enough to cause damage.
Davies and Archambeau cited examples
of earthquakes in Idaho and Montana that
occurred in areas geologically similar to
Yucca Mountain. The quakes that struck
there were strong enough to offset the
water table measurements. A magnitude
5.6 earthquake that struck near Yucca
Mountain in 1992, similarly caused the
water tables to change.
Department of Energy officials view
the University of Colorado study with skep-
ticism but do say that they need to study the
report in depth.
The University of Colorado report is
slated to be published in "Environmental
Geology" later this month.
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