Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-07-27 | Page 11 | Portion of Cemetery Flooded with Water

PORTION OF CEMETERY FLOODED WITH WATER Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. July 26. Owing to the clogged condition of the drain pipe loading load-ing from the Ogdcn City cemetery. It may be necessary to romovo 0F0 feet of the pipe before the prosent condition can bo remedied. For several weeks some of the graves at the cemetery have been covered to a depth of two feet with overflow over-flow water, which cannot bo drained through the pipes, which have become clogged with grass roots and other foreign, for-eign, substances. The water comes from a canal above the cemetory, which Is being used at this ncason by the fruit men of the neighborhood neighbor-hood in the Irrigation of their trees, causing an overflow into tho cemetery. It may be necessary to employ a special contractor to ' do the work, ns Deputy City Engineer Browning says that tho engineering department Is powerless to clear the drain under the present circumstances.