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Show i 'i iijii ijui They'll Utilize Sewer Gas B JOSEPH T. LIDDELL T Deseret News Staff Writer Theyve found a use for sewe gas; generate electricity with il Sourd like a pipe dream? The pipe for this dream i Salt Lake Citys system o' sewer pipelines. Every day 4( arent dteam about making forms of matesolid and gas; rials (liquids, leaching the $9 million water reclamation plant. They are to install a per hour power generation system. fhe power generating unit will include three gas burning generators and will furnish 4.9 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year. This will operate a the entire plant, including pumping station to lift the sewage effluent into the treatment plant. City Engineer Joseph S. Fenton and Assistant Engineer Alvin Mason predicted today that the city can generate its own electricity at the plant for s of a cent per kilowatt hour, the com- - preparing three-tenth- one-thir- d NEWS, Tuesday, Januory 7, 1969 of $1 million worth of improve-- 1 ments to the three-year-old- 1 1 WASTE PRODUCT The city presently uses about the 11 000 cubic feet of Judge gas produced per hour to leat the plants digesters. The ither half is being burned off as waste product. dreaming over City engineers DESERET treatment plant which the city has been doing the past year. The sewage methane actually! vfll be mixed at the plant with natuial gas. Since the sludge gas thermal rating is only 575 itus per cubic foot, its mixture ith natural gas at 875 btus vill give a mixture of 725 btus. This will furnish the energy necessary to turn generators ana iroduce heat for plant opera-ion- million gallons of sewage flow through them to the water tec Umatton plant (sewage treat ment), at 1850 N. Redwoot Road. Carried in the sewage i. methane, commonly called sewer gas. Sewage treatment plant operators call it STF, or sludge gas. ing any longer use of the three n planned 0 use the other half of the gas or 0 generate emergency, tandby power for the plant. However, because of the of a commercial power lutage occurring, the northwest part of the city and the plant, could be flooded in a matter of I hours in an emergency. Thus, the city decided to make the and elimiWaste gas now being burned off at sewage plant nate the flooding oossibility. treatment plant will soon be harnessed, used. Other work the city completed the past year was installation of mercial rate the city pays now. estimated. skimmers and a set of centrifu-th- e Total power bill for the treatThis will amortize ges to remove solids from the ment plant is nearly $45,000 a $259,680 installation cost in less sewage. The solids are usable than 10 years through the sav-fo- r fertilizer in agriculture and year. The generation ings the city will realize, Mr. the water is suitable for irrigd-jtiosystem will save the city from Mason said. purposes, although neither $26,000 to $30,000 a year, they The genera tk 1 system is part product now is fully utilized. V . A I Engineers originally 4 i - n AREA BRIEFS Police Check Identity Of Victim in Third District Court until 10 Of the 1968 figure, $2,158,894 cature Society and American Salt Lake City police today were still checking the identify a.m. Wednesday. was for single dwellings and Trial Lawyers Association. of a man who was killed MonThe trial began on schedule at condominium apartments. New He was admitted to practice day morning when he fell under 10 a.m. today. But when Judge businesses represented $860,000, the dual wheels of a wastepaper Leonard W. Elton looked at the and the rest was for remodel- in 1950 after graduating from the University of Utah law Truck. he no- ing. jury list of 33 school - The victim, about 60 years ticed it includedpersons, names only The total for December was ' ld, was dead on arrival at the from A to H. of which $42,000 was for $56,200 deHe After consulting with legal University Medical Center. fell under the rear wheels of the fender John OConnell, defend- - dwellings, Ten classes in family homei truck as it was coming out of an jing Lopez, and Dist. A tty. Jay alley near 115 E. 2nd South at Banks, Judge Elton stopped se management and welfare have Lawyer lection of the jury because he 9 35 a.m. been scheduled by the BYU - The man had no papers in his felt, and the lawyers agreed,! Salt Lake City Attorney David, a!Adult Educatlon Center 200 N clothing except a bus ticket A that a jury list which did not in- - K. Watkiss has been named name in one of his boots was elude a selection of veniremen fellow of the International Acad-- , ain St from A to Z was not fair to emy of Trial Registration for the classes being checked out. L a wyers, the the defendant. can be made anytime this week, A complaint was signed Oct. 7 fourth Utahn to Center officials said. Fees are by Floyd Ledford, Salt Lake receive such an $10 per person or $15 per City Traffic Engineer C. City Police Department, charg- - honor, couple. Arthur Geurts has submitted his lng Lopez with the murder of The academy The classes will be taught by resignation, city officials con- Joseph Robert Young. 26, 129 is described as an internation William M. Walsh of the GenerMead Ave. firmed today. bar associa-weal Welfare Committee of the Mr. Geurts is accepting Lopez was arrested after he ion leadthe of Church of Jesus Christ of morn-t the restaurant a to employment elsewhere, but Latter-da- y Saints. details were not available by ing of Oct. 5 and told two offhng trial lawyers the United noon today. Mr. Geurts has cers having coffee there that he in Persons may take classes on States and foreither Monday or Thursday served as traffic engineer the had just killed Young. eign nations. Its membership nights during the 10 weeks. past year. is limited to 500. Officials said that advertising Subjects wDl include: Security has been started for applicants. Mr. Watkiss, 2276 Berkley in a troubled world; economic The valu of (2150 East), is a partner in the health; the family storehouse; MURRAY building permits issued last firm of Pugsley, Rampton and maximum security with mini- home our wraste; year exceeded the previous Watkiss. He is affiliated with mum The second-degre- e murder year by $373,177, It was reported the Salt Lake County, Utah physical facilities and family trial of Theodore Lopez, 39, 433 today. The respective amounts 'State and American bar associ-- 1 responsibilities, and frustrations Hazel St., was continued today were $3,598,159 and $3,224,982. jations, also the American Judi-lan- d keys to promises. Classes At Center Honored g car in its The 69 Ford LTD is the class. Because it offers you so much more than the others. Take a test drive. Fifteen minutes behind the wheel will show you what makes Ford so special. A front seat area so spacious it deserves its new name the Front Room. A wheelbase longer than Chevrolets for an best-sellin- extra-smoo- th The road-holdi- ng Cadillac. wrapped up in a car thats amazingly agile. Fords turning circle is even smaller than Plymouths. Heres something else worth talking about The 1969 LTD was designed to ride quieter than the LTD that was quieter than a All Rolls-Royc- e. Come in now. Talk it over. Try it out Take it home. FORD Gain Of $373,177 - cn-yo- ur v grip of a track as wide as nt whats going s ride. Geurts Resigns Trial Runs Into Snag . Ford DaalsrlSave at his Pop-Optio- n Sale! z 3 - j- |