Show FAVORS WATER VATER METERS AGAIN Superintendent Frank L Bines Files Kles His Bis Annual Waterworks V Report WASTE STILL THE CRY COST AND NEEDS OF THE DE DEPARTMENT DEP DEPARTMENT P SET FORTH Water shortage sh Is merely a matter of water waste In Salt Lake City according to Superintendent Frank L Hines who filed his annual report yesterday Mr Hines renews his arguments for the in installation Installation of ot water meters and offers the results shown by the installation of me meters meters meters In twenty leading establishments of ot the city The total daily dally saving V of water by the use of twenty meters Is shown to be gallons an average of 2122 gallons for each consumer or about 40 per cent The daily consumption has not only been decreased but the consumers are much better satisfied in cases where meters are used says Mr Hines The question of ot what is an ample sup supply supply supply ply Is one that needs a considerable amount of ot thought for tor what would be bean bean bean an ample supply In one locality might not be sufficient in another and might amount to absolute want In a third place he be says The latter is the case casein casein caseIn in this city To get at the needs of a family of say five persons having a lawn of square yards and a house sup supplied supplied supplied plied with hot and cold water bath clos cbs closets I ets and one laundry tub I would place the actual needs of ot this city family as follows For bathing thirty gallons I drinking 5 6 gallons cooking 15 gallons closet 25 gallon gallo laundry and dish wash washIng washing washIng Ing 35 gallons or a total daily use of ot gallons If the lawn be wet times during the year which In my opinion Is ro Isa roa Isa a liberal allowance gallons of water would be used each time This would bring up the total consumption of this family to about gallons gailon a year or ora ora ora a per capita dally daily consumption of 60 GO gal gallons gallons lons Ions Shows a clous Waste The average flow daily into Salt Lake City is about gallons or a per capita daily consumption of about gallons Now It follows If a family situ situated situated as ns stated above making a legitimate use of water finds that gallons a day are all they need the use of 1245 gallons a day Is certainly waste 4 I believe the question of water waste is the one and only solution of the water shortage in this city The way to stop the waste Is by measuring every tap throughout the city eft Mr Hines recommends tunneling In Emigration canyon to tap the sump about ten feet below the present bottom which he says would increase the flow to WJ gallons per aay clay He reports Parleys creek conduit in very bad shape and rec recommends recommends that it be overhauled and that new manholes be bf put In near Emigration cut crossing cros ng He reports the high line Une and Twentieth ward wooden tanks In a dilapidated and unsafe condition and says they necessitated an expenditure of over during the past year with the prospects of further cost during the com coming coming ing lag year V Mr fr Hines recommends that the county be required to pay for the water used at the county jail jan that the city cemetery be taken the same as other customers and that the sprinkling department be re required reQuired required to pay for hydrant repairs between May and November In nearly every city of the United States a charge for water is made for churches and for building purposes and as a very large amount of water Is used by these I recommend that thata a charge be made mado by this city says Mr Hines Some of the Pressing Needs di I would recommend that a a small house be built at the Capitol hill hlll reservoir and anda a watchman employed to live on the ground to watch the city property and prevent the boys from throwing rubbish etc in the water In the reservoir We were compelled to empty this reservoir at two different times last summer when water was short In to order to clean out rubbish and other stuff thrown In by boys he says Mr Hines recommends that canal water be used for sprinkling wherever possible The cost of operating the department for the year Is shown to have been 50 distributed as follows Maintenance 35 Plant and equipment 91 97 Improvements 75 Miscellaneous accounts 85 Labor and material for various city departments 27 In addition to this special work in lay laying laying layIng ing water main extensions etc amounted to labor and material to the amount of was furnished to Indi Individuals indivIduals and companies and stores to the amount of were placed in is the de department department storehouse The net amount of collectible water rates Is estimated at an In crease of over 1904 lOOt Extensions were made by the department to the amount of feet in addition to feet laid under the supervision of the board of public works These extensions bring the total mileage of the mains of the city to miles 1337 feet The system system tem tern has 1675 valves 1188 hydrants and about water taps t ps The department has on hand material to the value of about Receipts of the depart department department department ment for the year amounted to |