Show WATER OFFICIALS LAUGH AT AI REPORT ON CITY CANYONS I pe De Declare lare No Effort Was Made to Secure Assistance i c From Department Preposterously Impossible are most of tf the ibo recommendations made by br tho the Commercial clubs club's subcommittee on city oter supply as to Or ordinances that should be passed and A that should l le c done The committee never or once nn any member of or the city water department to attend one of ItA ILA meet meet- i ings never nover asked one of or thorn thom for a a word or of Information a suggestion or orn n n. fact tact o or a figure yet eL It Jt presumes to dictate as lS' to what sh should uld be done and how bow This Tills Is th the estimate placed h by the city commissioner of wa waterworks on the report and recommendations of the Commercial clubs club's committee which was appointed to Investigate hl sanitary conditions In connection with the city's water supply It Is declared by the thc officials of th tho department that thet every e reasonable rc and ad possible Improvement advocated In the report has been advocated advocated o before by bo some member of the department or city official Why hr ad added ed the commissioner the they sa say you rou must let animals tra travel l through tho the canyons canons but you ou mustn't let them pollute the water water- They rhoy sa say let Jet the sheep and oth other r animals pro o over o the s streams yes streams Yc yes so go 0 through them It If the want hut want but dont don't let them contaminate t the water The They say build t fences along along- the trails That Tha t would do o a a. lot of good wouldn't It lt It I suppose tho the contamination contamina contamina- tion wouldn't soak through tho the ground nl and ll find Its wa way into the streams oven on lIll under cr the fences added the commis S I on er All bull con he c ejaculated of this depart department Now Xo the members mont ment hn have ril made mado d a a. careful exhaustive and long stull study of con conditions along the water sheds ever e since wo we have ha been In the department It stands to reason that we ve should know more about the actual conditions than an any bunch of men who make a few trips out Ito Into the canyons look over onT what their eyes ma may maysee maYRee see fee and then fl figure It out from rom that knowledge e. e Yet not one of ot us usa a was asked to take tako any part In the In estl investigation we not asked for a word wOld of advice consultation con con- figures or or fl facts by the tho investigators In Investigators In- In But nut the they assume t to dictate die dic tate how r thIngs s should hould be he run The commissioner tr was as asked If Jt the water WaLer department would take nIce steps to have e the or ordinances rc recommended by 11 bythe bythe the subcommittee o drafted and put Into force torce He lie did not hot an answer the question directly ether either one e way aP or th the other |