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Show stallation of New umps Double Capacity of Jordan River Plant H To Be Completed This Fall. iHanges Include New Building, .Bater Gates, Four New 8crew Bimpt and Motors and New River Kannel. Total Cost of Improve-Bents Improve-Bents $185,000.00. Bhcn tho work at tho Jordan Illvor Hcr company plant at tho head of B Jordan rlvor Ib comploted next Bth tho plants capacity for supply-Bwator supply-Bwator will have been doublet! and Blenally tho company will havo ono Sho best pumping plants In this, Blon of tho country. Tho Improve-Bts Improve-Bts effected during the past year, ! Biding building, dredging and ma-Hry ma-Hry will hnvo cost $185,000. j Hho work, under tho supervision of Eagor W. A. Knight, commenced a IB ago. Tho old framo section of B plant was removed, excavation Bk for tho now soctlon and somo Bcnt work on tho retaining wnlls -B foundation dono during tho fall B winter. Tho eroctlon of now Hcnt gates between tho plant and K lnko wore also put In last fall Wm. wintor. This spring and summer jSk was kept up and a now modern Bk building for housing tho now fSBhlnory roso up In placo of tho old Sdon soctlon. This building Is But comploted now and work of in flllng tho pumping equipment will Bt Immediately. Tho making of a 3r river channel with comont gates Bow underway. It will bo two feet SKw compromise point, olght-ono JB Wide and COO fcot long and is Bucl U8t B0Utn an(1 Gnst of tl,u Bior channol that mado tho Island ho bead of tho rlvor. It is so Hted that tho gatos in front of tho Bt can bo loworod and tho water Bfffrdm tho plant entlroly, turning Bwator into tho rlyor below tho old BB tuat woro to tuo suth of tlio Kniplo depth for low wator is BBvldcd for. The intako pits for MB now pumps will bo 17 foot bolow nwnproinlsd pointy nearly doop Mpugh to drain tho ontlro lako. Tho ISindatlon at this point is really GG Ht below compromlso point Doforo MP coment was pourod 200 thirty-six JBk plios and 2700 plocos of throo by -Jjclvo by twenty foot pieces woro driven down. Thou tho concrcto, 2,000 yards In all, was poured forming form-ing tho retaining walls nnd foundation. found-ation. Tho now equipment is of tho latest pumping machlnory typo. Tlioro uro four Bovonty inch scrow pumps of a total capacity of 800 cubic feet per second. With thoso go four 250 horse power Synchronous direct drive motors. Tho Intako pipes to thoso pumps aro fifteen feet In dlnmetur and tho dlschargo pipes twelvo fcot. Willi ihn Inatnllnf Inn nt Hinan tiimmu tho capacity of tho plant will bo doublod. This means that J.C00 cubic foet of wator can bo thrown from tho lako to tho rlvor por second. The former plant capacity wus 800 second foot. Provision is mado for a Ilfth pump of tho above typo should futuro nocassity roqulro it. All of tho four pumps, motors, etc., nro now on tho ground ready for installation. Tho ofllcloncy of tho now pumps Is fifty porcont hlghor than tho old stylo that aro in ubo at tho plant now. Doth motors nnd stylo of pumps enter into thlB ofllcloncy. Other minor equipment such as crano, tiro fighting system and switch bards nro also to bo installed with tho other modern machlnory. Tho Improvements havo been a sourco of roronuo to tho local town as tliirty-flvo men havo been employed employ-ed thcro on an average for tho past year. n |