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MAPLETON, Utah — A mountain lion was captured in the Mapleton area after residents were previously warned about using caution due to the animal's presence.

On Monday, officials said the mountain lion was seen in the northeast area of the city and that anyone who saw the animal should keep their distance. The city shared an image of the mountain lion and a paw print in the snow on social media.

Door cam video below shows mountain lion prowling around Mapleton home (Dan Sutherland):

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The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources was called out to track the lion and found her Tuesday afternoon hiding in brush near 1700 North and 1200 East.

Officers were able to tranquilize the female lion, estimated to be about 3 years old, and will move her to another area of the state.

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New stakes

A new stake has been created from the Mapleton Utah North Stake. The Mapleton Utah East Stake, which consists of the Mapleton 2nd, Mapleton 6th, Mapleton 7th, Mapleton 15th, Mapleton 23rd, Mapleton 29th and Mapleton 31st wards, was created by Elder Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier, General Authority Seventy, and Elder Jason C. Jensen, an Area Seventy.

MAPLETON UTAH EAST STAKE: (Feb. 25, 2024) President — Matthew Edward Lewis, 53, senior software engineer for the Church; wife, Kimberly Ann Criddle Lewis. Counselors — Thane Jeffrey Mitton, 60, Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc. executive director of corporate tax; wife, Lynette Bringhurst Mitton. Lewis Richard Nuttall, 47, Burgers Supreme business owner; wife, Florence Ilene McLay Nuttall.

A new stake has been created from the Mpintsin Ghana Stake. The Sofokrom Ghana Stake, which consists of the Beposo Branch and the Daboase, Essipon, Inchaban, Shama, Sofokrom 1st and Sofokrom 2nd wards, was created by Elder Alfred Kyungu, General Authority Seventy, and Elder Daniel Kabason, an Area Seventy.

SOFOKROM GHANA STAKE: (March 3, 2024) President — Wisdom Kwesi Tetteh, 44, Quality Systems LTD operations manager; wife, Philomina Ghamli Tetteh. Counselors — Laud Ato Essel, 41, mechanical engineer; wife, Emma Folsom Eshun Essel. John Ankrah, 36, Ghana Education Service teacher; wife, Winifred Codjoe Ankrah.

Reorganized stakes

ASHAIMAN GHANA STAKE: (Feb. 4, 2024) President — Adjei Eric Owusu, 34, Granite Advisors managing director; succeeding Alexander Kwame Boateng; wife, Caroline Dzigbordi Ahiamatah Owusu. Counselors — Vincent Edem-Akabutu, 44, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority assistant manager of central stores; wife, Wilemina Akweley Edem-Akabutu. Patrick Takyi Ennuson, 34, Seminaries and Institutes of Religion institute instructor; wife, Ruth Sitsope Kottoh Ennuson.

CLARKSBURG WEST VIRGINIA STAKE: (March 3, 2024) President — Robert Paul Hoskin, 55, Clear Mountain Bank financial adviser; succeeding Andro Kim Haws; wife, Stephanie Fern Barrowes Hoskin. Counselors — Mathew Jack Hart, 49, Omnis Building Technologies vice president of human resources; wife, Annalee Francis Hart. William Grant Drennen, 49, Manpower Group market manager; wife, Kari Anne Hunter Drennen.

MAPLETON UTAH NORTH STAKE: (Feb. 25, 2024) President — Benjamin Franklin Cummings, 41, Utah Valley University associate professor and graduate program director, and Blue Barn Wealth partner; succeeding Matthew Edward Lewis; wife, Kaylyn Faye Newhall Cummings. Counselors — Darin Ray Eckton, 49, Utah Valley University professor; wife, Betsy Lynn Ferguson Eckton. Geoffrey Albert Wright, 46, Brigham Young University professor; wife, Leah Naomi Sherry Wright.

MINOT NORTH DAKOTA STAKE: (March 10, 2024) President — Robert Edward Lee Boyer, 47, FCI Constructors Inc. project manager; succeeding Tyson David Williams; wife, Nickolee Zollinger Boyer. Counselors — Peter Kyle Isom, 50, self-employed oil and gas service provider; wife, Sandra Kay Hirschi Isom. Darren Christian Hill, 36, ophthalmologist; wife, Tia Lynne Grayson Hill.

SPANISH FORK UTAH SOUTH STAKE: (Jan. 21, 2024) President — Jason Alan DeFreese, 40, Pantheon contract renewals manager SLED; succeeding Craig Reading Lewis; wife, Laura Ann Dallin DeFreese. Counselors — Aaron Golden Cook, 49, CORE Utah Real Estate owner; wife, Amie Hawkins Cook. Kevin David Oyler, 45, Spanish Fork City city council member and Nu Skin Enterprises business intelligence analyst; wife, Angela Jeppsen Oyler.

This past summer, URS Corporation and the Utah Geological Survey (UGS), with assistance from the University of Utah (U. of U.), embarked on a “megatrench” study of the Provo segment of the Wasatch fault zone). The goal was to dig deeper than any previous trench dug across the fault, with the purpose of exposing evidence for prehistoric earthquakes (paleoseismicity) back in time to more than 11,000 years ago, doubling the length of the paleoseismic record for the Provo segment. Despite extreme logistical challenges, we accomplished our goal through unprecedented cooperation between federal and state government agencies, local universities, and private industry. The study was managed by URS and funded by the UGS and U.S. Geological Survey through the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program.

Why the need to study older earthquakes? A recent large trench study by James McCalpin of GEO-HAZ Consulting on the adjacent Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault to the north found evidence for considerable variation in rates of earthquake occurrence. Subsequent studies by Ivan Wong and Susan Olig at URS indicate that these rate variations significantly impact probabilistic seismic hazard evaluations, and can either increase estimated ground motions by as much as 60 percent, or decrease them by as much as 20 percent, depending on how rates are used in the analysis. Results from this study will help determine if these same rate variations have also occurred on the Provo segment, and if so, what may have caused them and how we may better incorporate them in future seismic hazard evaluations.

The Mapleton megatrench was about 8 miles southeast of Provo, on the southern third of the Provo segment. It was excavated across a large main fault scarp and several antithetic faults that form a trough-like graben at the base of the Wasatch Range. Here, the faults offset alluvial-fan deposits from Big Slide Canyon. The fan sediments are mostly debris-flow deposits and contain abundant charcoal that can be radiocarbon dated to determine the timing of earthquake events.

The megatrench excavation included a slot trench in the center with two benches flanking both sides. It was over 30 feet deep, 35 to 50 feet wide, and about 275 feet long. Its size was complicated by the large, steep slope of the main fault scarp, which is over 60 feet high and has an average slope of 35 degrees. In addition to excavating and logging the trench, we dug three shallow soil pits, mapped the surficial geology in detail, and constructed topographic profiles across the fault scarp. To “see” even deeper and decipher even older fault behavior, the U. of U. conducted geophysical experiments to measure seismic velocities of sediments. We also drilled three boreholes that were 110 to 120 feet deep. The drilling and geophysics were funded by the National Science Foundation as part of a broader study of several faults, which is being directed by Ronald Bruhn and Gerard Schuster at the U. of U.

Our fieldwork is nearly complete and the excavations are backfilled, but we are still analyzing data and have only preliminary results to report here. For example, we are still drafting final trench logs, and of the 52 charcoal samples that we collected for radiocarbon dating, we have completed only eight age analyses so far. However, the initial results are promising and include some intriguing surprises. In particular, the unusually extensive exposure of the footwall (upthrown side of the fault) revealed a much more complex deformation zone than expected, with a thick sequence of debris-flow deposits offset across four, not just one, significant down-to-the-west faults, identified as FZ1 through FZ4. Although faulting appears to have generally stepped basinward (westward toward the base of the slope) through time, all of the faults show compelling evidence for repeated movement during the Holocene (past 10,000 years).

Preliminary stratigraphic correlations suggest that over 10 feet of vertical offset occurred during two separate faulting events on FZ1 sometime between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago. A thick package of unfaulted debris-flow deposits overlies FZ1, indicating that activity on this fault had ceased by 5,000 years ago. In contrast, colluvial-wedge deposits along both FZ2 and FZ3 provide evidence for surface- faulting earthquakes that occurred after 5,000 years ago, each of which may or may not have been contemporaneous with one of the three youngest events on the main fault (FZ4). The trench also exposed evidence for at least two older faulting events on FZ2 that occurred prior to 6,000 years ago. Additional radiocarbon ages will help us determine if these older events were contemporaneous with any of the older events on FZ1.

The trench also exposed several antithetic faults (faults that dip in the opposite direction of the main fault) that, together with FZ4, form the main graben and are identified as AFZ1 through AFZ6. Altogether, we found evidence for at least five separate surface faulting events on the graben faults. The evidence includes differential offsets of sediments across faults, fault terminations, and faulting- related deposits (e.g., fissure fills and colluvial wedges). One of the more spectacular discoveries was evidence for the youngest event on FZ4, where an apparently very large earthquake created a scarp at least 20 feet high that was subsequently buried by colluvium shed off the scarp, forming a “mega-“ colluvial wedge. Evidence for this event was previously exposed in a shallow trench investigation at this site by Bill Lund of the UGS, who determined that the event occurred about 600 years ago based on radiocarbon analyses. We collected charcoal samples from most of the offset sediments exposed in the graben to constrain the timing of older events, but need to obtain additional funding to analyze these samples.

Once additional radiocarbon analyses are complete, we expect to constrain the ages for all the events on the graben faults, and hopefully determine how their timing compares to the timing of events on the footwall faults. Then we can ultimately address our original question as to whether rates of earthquake occurrence have varied significantly on the Provo segment, as observed on the Salt Lake City segment. One striking fact is clear from even our preliminary results: slip rates based on offsets measured from scarp profiles and ages from shallow excavations alone would be much too high due to the pre-existing topography created by much older faulting on FZ1. Without the deep exposures of FZ1, FZ2, and FZ3 in the slot trench, we likely would have assumed that all of the offset we see across the main scarp occurred after 5,000 years ago. This would erroneously yield a slip rate exceeding 4 millimeters/year. Clearly, going deeper in this case paid off, but for unexpected reasons! After decades of research by some of the leading paleoseismologists of our time, the Wasatch fault is arguably the best studied normal-slip fault in the world. And so it is amazing to us how much we still have to learn about this incredible fault that has fundamentally shaped the Wasatch Front landscape and will continue to do so for generations to come.

Acknowledgments: Many have contributed to the Mapleton megatrench study, but we are particularly thankful to: Ronald Bruhn, Maike Buddensiek, Chris Busch, Gary Christenson, Scott Cragen, Mike Hozik, Mike Hylland, Rich Giraud, Justin Johnson, Ann Mattson, Craig Nelson, Eliza Nemser, Gerard Schuster, David Schwartz, Gordon Seitz, David Simon, and Ivan Wong. We also thank the following for their logistical assistance: Bob Gunnell, Joergen Pilz, Don White, Mapleton City, the Suburban Land Reserve, and the Division of Wildlife Resources.

MAPLETON, Utah — For the past eleven years, Mapleton is where Steven Stewart has found fulfillment, living in a rural community, raising bees, alfalfa, fruits and vegetables on more than two acres. He says part of the open field behind him is zoned commercial and he’s okay with a proposed grocery store, but not a change in zoning for the rest of the land.

“The real conflict is for the residential which is on that end where they want to put in high density housing, which nobody in Mapleton really wants to see except the developer, who is on the city council,” said Stewart.

That council member, Jonathan Reid is not running for re-election and he told residents last night he will recuse himself from any vote on a zoning change.

“I don’t know whether I believe he’s going to recuse himself or not but i do believe he has already made his influence with the other council members which worries me,” said Jeanee Stewart. The neighbors say they just learned about the plan in recent days, which includes 68 townhomes and 21 houses, each on 1/5^th of an acre, that is set for consideration by the city planning commission next week, giving them little time to oppose it.

“I think it’s unethical for people that are on the city planning commission or on the city council to be developers in the town because i feel like they have an unfair advantage,” said Jill Sherman, who lives next ot the Stewarts. In a written statement, Cory Branch, the city administrator told KSL: “An application has recently been submitted to Mapleton City requesting to rezone an 18 acre parcel located at approximately 1600 South and 1600 West for a project that would include a grocery store, some commercial pads and a residential subdivision. The City understands that there are neighbors that are concerned with the proposal, and its potential impact to the City, particularly with the density proposed by the applicant. It is also the City’s understanding that the applicant and the neighbors have agreed to work together to address some of the concerns that have been expressed prior to the application being reviewed by the planning commission and city council. We hope the discussions between the applicant and the neighbors are productive, and the City is committed to a fair and transparent public process as the application moves forward that is respectful of the rights and opinions of all involved.” Neighbors hope that the rural atmosphere of Mapleton can still be preserved.

“In all reality is it’s probably a compromise –it cannot be high density, but you know it probably can’t be two acres though either because we’re rational, reasonable– it’s gotta be something in between, one acre or half acre, that’s rational that’s reasonable,” said Simon Greathead, a resident who lives nearby.

A public meeting before the planning commission is slated for Thursday August 8^th at 6pm at city hall in Mapleton.

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MAPLETON — Posh homes at the foot of a picturesque mountain are part of living in this peaceful, off-the-beaten-path burg.

But Mapleton also has the distinction of having the highest utility bills among the nine largest towns in Utah County, mostly because of its sewer rates, according to a study.

Why do residents pay so much?

"We missed the boat when federal money was available," City Manager Bob Bradshaw said.

So people who live there are asked to cover a $9.4 million debt to build the sewer system, which was completed in 1996. A Mapleton homeowner's monthly sewer bill averages $40.76.

Residents who are not hooked up — 324 of them — pay $30 monthly toward paying off the debt for the sewer system, Bradshaw said, although they get no service.

Many choose not to hook up because of the cost, Bradshaw said. Residents who live more than 300 feet from the sewer don't have to pay for it until development moves the line within the 300 feet.

Because of the sewer tab, Mapleton residents pay more each month — $125.99 on average — for utilities than other residents in Utah County, according to the survey conducted by Springville last year. Springville leaders are getting ready to do the study again, finance director Dave Allen said.

Spanish Fork has the second most expensive utilities in Utah County — $124.78 on average. Included is an average electric bill of more than $50, the fourth highest in the county.

Spanish Fork uses excess electric funds to cover shortfalls in other areas, notably the city-owned Spanish Oaks golf course, the library and ambulance service.

"Every city creates its revenue source a little different," Spanish Fork City Manager Dave Oyler said.

Residents' water bills average about $47 a month, based on 20,000 gallons. That's more than 60 percent above the next highest city, Mapleton, where monthly water bills average $30.20.

Once a city with low water costs, Spanish Fork leaders saw limited sources of water for the growing town. So they built the pressurized irrigation system, which escalated water costs. The three Utah County cities with the priciest power, Lehi, Springville and Payson, fall close to the middle for total utilities paid. All three cities are on the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems grid.

The group recently completed a $100 million power plant in Payson that is powered by natural gas and steam. However, gas prices are high, which has driven up power-generation costs, Payson Power Superintendent Ron Crump said.

The plant doesn't run unless it can beat the prices in a mix of power sources, he said.

Residents in the three cities pay, on average, more than $60 a month to turn on the lights in their homes, assuming 644 kilowatt hours are used monthly.

Meanwhile, the Utah County city with the least expensive utilities is Provo. Monthly combined utilities there average less than $80, according to the study.

When power rates jumped in 2001, Provo had firm rates locked in and wasn't as affected, said Provo power superintendent Kevin Garlick.

Provo and Spanish Fork use Utah Municipal Power Agency power. The least expensive power, however, comes from Utah Power, which serves Orem, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and Mapleton.

Provo's utility bills are the lowest because of water and sewer rates. Residents pay average monthly bills of $12.67 and $11.25, respectively, for those services.