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Show Council Approves Honey For STieters By MARK D. MICKELSEN NORTH SALT LAKE The North Salt Lake City Council last Tuesday approved $1500 to repair' and update the city's main water source meters. CITY OFFICIALS have agreed to have a major water audit done in the community to pinpoint underground water losses, but are stalled until the town's well meters are in proper prop-er working order. According to one city crewman, crew-man, a preliminary investigation investiga-tion shows two meters, one near the old Valley Music Hall, the other near the Woods Cross pumping station, not working at all. A third meter, at the city's 11th North pumping pump-ing station is said to be old and inaccurate. RAY Rasmussen, city utility manager, said the $1500 will be used to install a six inch meter in one well and repair the two non-working meters in the other source wells. The updating of the meters plus an updated map of the city's ci-ty's water system must be submitted sub-mitted to Provo's Community Consultants before the water audit can be done. REPRESENTATIVE Dale Berg, of the Provo firm, told the council last week that the purpose of his study is to determine deter-mine where water losses are occurring in the city. Two areas are to be studied in the community, he said, to determine deter-mine their leak potential. Encompassed in the study will be the checking of 105 small water meters and the examination ex-amination of the city's three source meters, he added, emphasizing to the city fathers that without proper metering devices, it is impossible to make tabulations on the accuracy accur-acy of the source meters. THE CITY, at present, doesn't have an updated map of the community water system sys-tem either. "It looks like we have to do our own work before we have you come in," Councilman Fred Moosman told Berg. MR. BERG informed the group that the overall study will take about four months. Councilman John Graves complained, com-plained, however, that the elongated time period is too extensive "to incur J3.(Vi0 in costs." The cost of the preliminary audit has been estimated at S4.500, with the additional water wa-ter study and leakage survey totaling about S4.0O0. BECAUSE OF the meter problems, the city council asked Mr. Berg to allow them an extra two weeks to make a decision on the audit and extended ex-tended study. Most felt that the improvements could be made in that time. Representing the Provo water wa-ter consultant firm, Mr. Berg had approached the council two months ago about the possibility pos-sibility of their wanting a water survey done in the city to combat com-bat costly underground water losses. Recently, Mayor Palm-quist Palm-quist requested the company's, return to North Salt Lake for a preliminary water audit, a rate study and leakage survey can be started. AT TUESDAY'S meeting, however, Mr. Berg said the updated up-dated city water map and meter repairs must be finished before his firm will do the audit. au-dit. And, he added, the audit must be done before the rate study and leakage survey can be started. Mayor pro-tern Joe Van-demerwe Van-demerwe asked that the map be updated and copies submitted submit-ted to the coundil. IN AN unrelated matter, members of the North Salt Lake Employee's Association have asked the city to change insurance companies. According to Jim Erickson, spokesman, the change includes in-cludes better health benefits and a comprehensive dental plan. He said Bountiful, Centerville Cen-terville and Logan all belong to the plan and have been satisfied satis-fied with it. "IT'S A good plan," Mr. Erickson said, speaking for the employees, and "everyone's satisfied with it." |