Show MORE WATER FOR CITY I Engineer KelseJs Report on Pass bites of Big Cotonwood PROPOSALS TO EXCHANGE CANAL WATEB IN TEADE FOB I CAA WAT I TADE CANYON SUPPLY CAON 4 Pipe Line From Paper Mill to Fifth South Street Would Cost 235000 GI At a Minimum 6500000 Ion Diy Could Be Obtained I Power Plat RIghts City Engineer KcJsey submitted to the council last evening his longex pted repcr of his researches for data beating upon the subject of procuring lager water supply for Salt Lake from Big Cottonwood canyon But the r port was Incomplete and pemlSon was given to withdraw i with the under un-der gven dm that the conclusIons and various recommtndaton should be written up and embodied in the report by te end of the week The Important part of the repOt deals with the queUon of exchanging city canal water for equal quantities of canyon wnter and conducIng the ca pure mountain water to this city In a pipe line Altogether several score I of Big Cottonwood farmers owninG nearly 1000 acres oC land he elgned agreements showing their proposed agemen shoing the1 willingness to enter Into water trading contracts Thtlf the Farmers Wl Trade Below the present route of te city canal are 4320 acres of farm land and out of thin total farmers owning prime rigs to Big Cottonwood canyon for 2C62 acres are willing to excbJnge even up for canal supply On the Tanner ner dItch 423 acre out of I43 will e I change Under the big dch 152 out of 1958 acres will ccnseno and the entire en-tire 99 acres under the Farr and Harper I Har-per ditch are reported by Engineer I Kelcey is ready to enter the deal Own era of primary rights to 373 acres un dec the lower ditch or JeaJ hal are willing t trade outright well or ex chang on condition hat C1e city 11 furl them canyon te for domestic domes-tic uses Under the Hill ditch are 363 acres out or which 233 will exchange water A total of 269 acres is above the contour grade of the citys big ditch I brought rem Utah lake along the highest possible route and 991 acres are between the present route and the contour line thereby securing nearly 100 acres additional to exchange water rights upon In other words the owners of very nearly cehl of all the land under the canyon ditches which could be irrigated Ir-rigated frem the city canal are willing to exchange water rights In the upper par of Big Cottonwood district water for domestic or culinary uaaa 15 ob talned from the ditches while below the whie taned frm te diches te canl 1owlng wells are very common Amount of Water to De Traded Accurate moureen1s of water In the ditches ramed tTl 2une 16 to te end of October of this year show the hilly volume In cubic fet per second is follows Tnner ditch from 89 a rolows maximum to 91 minimum big ditch 367 to 84 Farr and Harpers 26 to 9 lower ditch 101 to 18 No measure floats were obtained from the Hill SInce a cubic foot oC water by the andan oC flow measurement per second sec-ond is equivalent to G6OOO gallons daily the volume of water obtaInable from thre urce a the exchange plans would be nt less than 6500000 glons cacti day baed on the mesremenl of minimum flow from late In July t the time of autumn rains This Is more than half the quantty oC water used In this city any day In the summer T conduct Big Cottonwood ater In a pipe line from just below the old paper mill now owned by the Umon 1 Light Power compni to connect wiTh the pip system 01 East Fifth South street wouldO Engineer Kel I estimates 233000 The distance soy etlmate 2300 Te disnce would be 552400 feet and the conduit daily capacity of 25050 would have a niy 20 oeo gallons Ample pressure would be obtained or the power rights below the proposed pro-posed head oC the pipe line only one oran or-an consequence worth about OOOO would have to pe condemned but It would not be 5 difficult the engners report Sate I the city could furnish substitute other power to run the gristmill J |