| Show THAWING STREAMS BRING WATER flOW ABOVE ITS AVERAGE Principal Work of Department Now Thawing Out Frozen Froze I Service Pipes With ith a a. material Increase In flow 10 of ot nearly all nil canyon canon streams yesterday caused b by tho thawing weather Salt S alt Take Lake was w able to cut down Its borrowed borrowed bor bor- rowed Ved supply from Big DIE Cottonwood canyon canyon can can- yon to a n little tittle moro Mora that than gal gal- Jons Ions and still I keep keen cop tho total supply of tho the city up to o tho the mark Title This la Is a ti little e tho av- av crase flow for winter weather and put weather normal tho the e pressure In tho city aboyo r normal also aIRO Tho pressure at waterworks headquarters headquarters head head- quarters yesterday yesterday- morning nJ reached the the pound lOS marlc mark o I pounds above his tho average 13 for or this time of or year nr This T pre pressure sure was maintained all nil tIn lay day with t scarcely remedy h a waver wa oven even after nearly nearl gallons of cir the tho flow front from Big BIb Cottonwood had lud been turned back to tho thu owners owner from whom It Jt had been taken by by- border order of or court The city Is still sUll u somA som water rater from the tho ditch and ca ial ca people from from Cottonwood creek but If It t th thA present weather continues s It will be bc ablo to shut ot off a all all- allbut I but Its usual supply y Thinning Tb 1 Pr ien Pipes The Tho troubles trouble of the wat water r department do not consist of setting getting water now but In g setting getting fro frozen e 1 her service wirer pipes thawed out As s soon U us these pipes are put In ht shape the tho system will bo bl in Inu perfectly per per- normal condition u a again aln Tho rile on only 1 danger that confronts confront he ho department now is b that too rapid melting inciting of ot the snow and Ice ma may mat result In floods floods Tho The water famine has el the necessity for some om means of ot storing emergency water and this matter matter I 1 la 1 being given considerable consideration by hy the city officials It Is H pointed d ou out t that an additional flow of pc per perla r day la for tho thu three days s of or tho the severe seer o freeze was necessary r to bring the to re reduced reduced re- re flow Jow from the streams up t to th the o normal cold collI weather supply and that thata t a n res reservoir r holding or 20 20 Rations gallons o of water w would hat havo u taken care of tho situation perfectly This caused the tho officials t to re recall cal 1 plan plans of oC former fonner engineers er and adm administrations adminis for tor reservoirs which w a i u o ne never ner r carried out Impounding Impound In Dams Planned l I r. r C C. K lse years cars ag ago ngo o planned a dam just below the Junction i of ot Parley and Mountain Dell creeks creels In 1 n Parleys R canyon He lie figured d that a ros- ros C could bo be constructed there therA thin that t would hold hoM several hundred million or gallons a a. supply sufficient to last lust th the e city for tor weeks s. s Another plan was t to build a no dam lIam across R nl Big Cottonwood o canyon a Do few tew miles this side of or Brighton Bright on on at a point where a n. supply of water sufficient to last tho the city for tor many J months could bo be impounded Still another an an- I an-I I other proposition was tho the construction ann n of or a a. I. I dam In City Creek canyon Just jus tn t this side of Black mountain where when an a n tt enormous supply could be gathered it In t flood water times tines and antl held for foi emergencIes emer emer- I Supt UI C e. e P. P I Barre Barrett who has hns berg n I working on his annum annual report fur for ur tunic sum ne e weeks week is recommending that the ell city decide upon unon a scheme schema of or water supply that will bo be o adequate for tor the ne needs s o of ofa f ft a a. L city twenty times tines the of or Salt Sal alt t Lake L. and that the plan he worked ou out t In such a wa way the that t Instead tead of or having t to carr carry It all au out t 1 at t once It ma may be carded car car- ded out In to as needed until th the completed system stem 1 I fy realized |
