Show WATER SUPPLY SCHEME TO COST 1 MILLIONS VOTED I Sp Special cial Boner Bond Election Plan Gets Approval l olT of ol Commission T 1 BOARD DOARD ANTICIPATES ATES 1 J POPULATION TION Expenditure of 3 V t Necessary to Complete Undertaking of ot the plan of oC t jt A Official approval al 00 vC c Clarence eslen commissioner mot ot of waterworks to reconstruct the Salt aIt Lake water vator supply system wu S II the city commis cominis- commission yesterday by Ion sion when after aCter a a. long Ion meeting the Hie members of the thc board gave their 0 O K 1 to what Is characterized as ono of or the LIC biggest cst municipal l improvement ement pro programs rams undertaken in the history o oi of the tho city dU An Au expenditure of at 3 will be ben n necessary to earr carry out the tho pro program ram Tho The Improvements planned would be bein in process of or construction for three years The Idea behind the propose propos pro program ram Is to assure the city of or a dependable de de- de- de sufficient to water supply jakc take care of or a local population ot of i j persons persona The only board member not voting otin was Theodore T. T Burton newly elected commissioner who asked to be excused cd cdon he not suf- suf Ton Jon on tho the ground that hat was familiar with ith the proposal to lake l a a stand in the mattel mattei without further considering it Set ct E d. d The commission at its meeting Monc Mon Mon- fonda c iday da day night will take tako necessary steps to I. I submit a n. special bond election to the presidents residents of or the city to determine if It the the necessary three and a half hair million million mil mil- lion dollars can be rais raised d. d The plans carry with them for the acquisition by the city of oC the entire flow of Qt water from tho the thoV V range rang for or Salt Lake consumptIon tIon Red fled Butte creek creel could bo be tho the only canyon excepted This canyon canon is is 1 n government Jo ti l Alii n l 4 ill In property I. I r Inn I. I a rt HU I 00 u program of or reservoir reconstruction work New ew reservoirs would be built in every canyon In the Wasatch wat water water- r- r Other Oilier steps would be the construction con con- l of or new pipe lines enlarge enlarge- ment and extension of ot tho the present of no new distributing mains throughout hout tho the city and tho the InstallatIon ini in- in i stalls lion of o greater pumping facilities ties at Utah lake 1 p Of or the proposed bond Issue 1950 1 would would be used for tor the reservoir reser construction work outlined One Ono o of the tho water holds sug- sug suggested Is to bo ho lo located o 0 in Cottonwood gulch nine miles milc up City creek creele canyon and two miles above e the Uthe Forks The supply obtained ob Ol here hero would be for emergency purposes purposes In case of fires In the busl- busl hess section or to handle the tho manu fact Industries s spring up In the northwestern section of oC tho the city A total of would bo spent on this project Another feature of oC the tho program Is lt tho the recommendation commendation that tho the Mountain Moun Moun- tam tain tah Dell Den dam damn In Parleys Parley's canyon canon ho bo raised forty feet teet thus titus increasing the tho storage from to gallons The reconstruction here would cost A reservoir to cost I I. I Is proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed for Big Cottonwood can canyon on The Tho dam tiam hero would be built a Short distance dis ds- tanco tance above e the old Brandenburg ran ranch h Reservoirs in Little Cottonwood Mill 1111 Milli i Creek and anil Immigration canyons also are proposed the tho ell city first buying water wat- wat Vater er Cr rl rights In canyons canons where the time municipality now docs does not own the major control of or the streams 1 IlIe Lines Large Item Hem The Tho balance o of the bond Issue would bo be cX expended ended In obtaining water rl rights In extending pipe lines lIneR mains and I iother ID other othel development de as follows Expense of pipe line and canal and enlar enlargement incidental tal tal al to trade deals enlar enlarging ln of of pumping facilities at pumping pumping- plant I at Utah lake OOOO necessary conI conduit con- con I dult duit to deliver er new water from Big Bigand and antl Cottonwood canyons new now distributing mains in Salt S Lake City extension of Parleys Parley's Par Par- lc ley's leys 8 conduit Cottonwood exchanges Mill Creek Creek ex- ex changes distributing reserVoir reservoir reser reser- voir on Emigration fa n at the mouth of Cf that canyon canon where the pest house la Is now located City Creek pipe changes at OOOO for the placing of or orthis this stream in a n. conduit one mile in length i J In explanation of ol his vote oto for or pre pre- this bond issue to the people people peo peo- pIe Mayor 1 Hock Bock said he lie did It with tho the understanding that tho the water department de da- da should he be made support self Ing Jn 1 and so 80 Increase Its revenues ITS mJ to take care of the Interest on its own bond honti Issue and to provide a sluicing sinking fund to aid ald In the redemption of or the bonds Mr r. n Informed the time board that he ho and Herman II H. Green Greel commissioner of or finance to together with Sylvester Svlvester Q Cannon elt city en engineer and H. H 1 K BUrton Burton Burton Bur BUr- ton superintendent of wate water wate works worl s. s were were were- now working out a schedule of water rates which they the anticipated would fulfill the mayors mayor's sU suggestion estion |