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FLASHBACK 1990: The proposed Kern River Pipeline—ripping through the heart of Mueller Park—transformed soft-spoken Dave Brown into a leader.

You might say that it was purely by chance that Dave Brown ever heard about the Kern River Pipeline and the Wasatch Variation. In June 1987, Brown hosted a monthly executive committee meeting of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club in his home in Bountiful. One of the other members told him of the Environmental Impact Study that, if accepted by the Forest Service, would allow the construction of a pipeline through Mueller Park in Bountiful and Bountiful's culinary watershed, through residential areas in Davis and Salt Lake Counties, and through the proposed expansion area of the Salt Lake International Airport.

You might say that it was purely by chance that Dave Brown ever heard about the Kern River Pipeline and the Wasatch Variation. In June 1987, Brown hosted a monthly executive committee meeting of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club in his home in Bountiful.

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