Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-04-18 | Page 21 | Store Water Now Wasted, is Advice of Commissioner

STORE WATER NOW NO WASTED MASTED 7 IS OF COMMISSIONER Says Improvements to Dam Darn Would Woud Check Floods Moods Menacing l City Water ater began began flowing over the top of oC Mountain lo Dell Dell Dell' reservoir dam In Parleys Parley's canon canyon yesterday an and 00 gallons are going to was waste to daily flooding various sections of or the city according to C. C C C. C commissioner of ot waterworks and arid water supply Besides this amount of r water going to waste and doing dama damage e to the lying low-lying sections of or tho the cit city Mr Nes- Nes len lea asserted probably gallons are flowing down City creek adding to toI the flood conditions I This water should bo be placed In reservoirs reservoirs reservoirs reser reser- and held for use uso In the summer asserts Mr and that Is one of ot the proposals proposal made in the water program program program pro pro- gram to bo be carried Into effect if the bond issue passes at tho the special special cial election on April 27 Parle Parleys s canyon canon because of its open character be begins betins ins lowing flowing earlier than most of ot the local canyon creeks said air Mr r eslen We Ye have havo been using to afew n a water from Parleys Parley's canyon canon up few days daYH ago and kept the dam from overflowing but now no with the tho recent storm water from Crom this creek is so I roily that it Is not fit for Immediate consumption so It has been necessary i to allow It to run down the canyon canon and ami andI I take the water supply for or the cit city from fromI I Big Cottonwood whose w water ter is still still clear as cr crystal stal I Bond I. I me Would Aid Ud I The Tho water program under the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed bond issue would aid the tho city In this matter The capacity of th the Mountain D Dell ll reservoir Is now gallons and If the Intended intend fort forty foot foot extension on top of or the dam damis is made the capacity will be bo practically practically call cally a billion and a quarter gallons This means if the reservoir was now complete with tho additional unit it would be fifteen 1 teen days before that reservoir reservoir reservoir res res- would be full fun and the gallons now dally daily going to waste would be conserved for tor the summer Bummer months Of or course it would take some little time fo for tor It to settle and be bo fit for tor culinary use but we would b be using from Big Cottonwood creek In the In Interim interim In- In Just as we are compelled to do donow now It Is Is usually four to six weeks after Parleys Parley's creek starts starts' Its spring ft flood that Bi Big Cotton Cottonwood reaches Its pea peak flow Obviously construction of ot a largo large reservoir In Big Cottonwood ca can canyon lon l- l yon on would allow this reservoir to be Tilled hilled at the later rate and the city's culinary supply at that hat time be taken taken from the tho enlarged parl Parleys Parley's s reservoir Emergency Dams flain on CU City Cr Creek k e-k Of or course City creek could hard hardly bo be 00 controlled In the same manner as there Is no place for an enormous enormous dam darn damin damin in that canyon The program merely calls for emergency reservoirs of i smaller size In this canyon to be used in case of or large fires or other emergency emer omer- gency genc calls which demand a consIderable considerable consid consId- erable amount of or water thrown thron Into tho the city system Yf tem on on quick notice In view of the the close proximity of City creek it is hs certainly plain to the average average averi aver aver- i age ago citizen that this procedure might mean considerable to property owners in the case of or a sudden holocaust All who have lived In Salt Lal Lake e for any length of time appreciate the Ute fact that this winter has been far from normal normal nor nor- mal both in iii the tho matter of temperature and snowfall concluded Mr Neal en Even en though we have had llad more than thana a normal snowfall It has for the most part come In the tho last two to months and then too In such a manner that the run off has been excessive If Ie the snowfall of ot the past two months had occurred In December and January when it would have packed In the gullies gul gui lUes lies and forks of the canyons the thc question of ot water for the summer months would have been far from difficult dif dlf- Now however we are facing a summer which has been preceded by a spring of extreme with snow and rain In enormous quantities quan tuan- titles and which is going oin to waste from a l iak k of or sufficient reservoir capacity to preserve it for the dry summer months