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Show WATER TUNNEL IMPROVEMENTS N0WC0MPLETE Spending the time remaining of this week in cleaning up and putting finishing touches on improvements im-provements at the Dry Fork water wa-ter tunnel, the WPA crew under direction of Claude Tibbie, foreman, fore-man, completed actual work at the tunnel and new concrete weir house Monday. The city's share of the expense came to $4660, and the WPA expended ex-pended for labor $19,640. Involving Involv-ing lining the 1700 foot tunnel with concrete slabs made of 532,240 pounds of concrete, the project was begun nearly a year ago, May 14, 1640. Undertaken to eliminate costly cost-ly repairs of the rapidly rotting timbers in the tunnel, this later improvement of the city's water system will finish a program begun be-gun to halt loss of an estimated 25 per cent of the water supply, due to leaking pipe and rotting wooden lining at the tunnel, now entirely replaced. The tunnel i3 source of about 24,000 gallons of water daily, two-thirds of Bingham's supply. Mark Gardiner and Courtney B. Harris, WPA ehgineers, directed work for that agency. O |