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Show Expand Our Mountain Recreation Facilities For a number of years we have been hearing about the need for greater developments in Utah's excellent winter sports areas. And for just as many years we have been hearing that these developments cannot be made because they would endanger Salt Lake City's water supply. As a step toward solving the problem the city is building filtration plants at the mouth of canyons involved. But under the current Republican dominated city and county administration the thing apparently is going to sop right there. A major step the filtration plants (launched when the Democrats were in power) has been taken. Now it's time for some more forward movement so that Brighton and Alta might reach their full development. It's time for the Republican dominated city and county commissions to take their collective heads out of the snowbanks and look to positive ways of breaking through the water pollution scare. In some sections of the country large cities obtain water from rivers into which other cities upstream dump raw sewage. Yet the downstream cities are able, through scientific means, to purify the city water. Surely the science of water purification has also extended westward. Surely the same methods must be available to Salt Lake City. What is needed is a positive approach to the situation. In-steady In-steady of saying we can't allow any further construction at Brighton and Alta because it will endanger the water supply, we should be saying we must permit further building and we must find out how to keep the water pure too. No one denies the present and potential need for clean (Continued on Page Four) Expand Our Mountain Recreation Facilities (Continued from Page 1) culinary water. But neither can they deny the need for additional facilities at Brighton and Alta. Anyone who has visited these areas on weekends and holidays can testify they are overcrowded and that all facilities are taxed to the limit. Commissioners with foresight and imagination can find a way out. : , . i |