East Carbon City - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - part 1

 

Planning on moving to East Carbon City, Utah? Here’s some information that might just surprise you after moving here. At an elevation of just approximately under 6,000 feet, East Carbon sits at the end of UT123 in the southeastern corner of Carbon County. With a population of approximately 1,655 people, the town is relatively exempt or for a better word, void of business, except for a local store, gas station when and if you can get it, a small medical clinic, and a Taiwanese restaurant that will be closing soon. If you want to shop, Price which is approximately 30 miles away is your only choice for shopping. They have a Wall-mart, and some Mom and Pop stores. Gasoline and diesel is extremely expensive to buy here, when they happen to have it available. You will need and probably want to travel to Wellington or Price to buy it. East Carbon has a major water problem. Basically there isn’t any, as our very small reservoir has no volume to it, and the creek that supplies it isn’t very big. It’s the same ole problem, year after year, water restrictions. Some people believe our water comes from Scofield Reservoir through PRWID (Price River Water Improvement District) but it doesn’t. The city spent over 4 million for a new water treatment plant that still doesn’t work. Over the many years, the city would sell off a majority of our water to the small power plant located here, always keeping us continuously on water restrictions. There is absolutely no other water source that ECC could use. East Carbon used to be an old mining camp that turned city in the 1940’s. A majority of the houses here are from that era, and built only for limited use by the miners. When East Carbon became an incorporated city; property lines and lots become a major fiasco for people who bought here. The county and the city never fixed the many property line problems that plague this town, and never will. If you want a mundane life style listening to loud banging music, constant dog barking, wild cats invading your property by the dozens, loud un-muffled diesel trucks, straight piped Harley’s, ORV’s and dirt bikes racing around all day and night on the city streets, like to wonder where the city money went, more drug dealers and crack houses per capita, the second largest land fill in the US, and the smell of a sewer lagoon in town, then East Carbon is for you. Part 2 will be more on the positive side.