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Show W1 ALTER C LEWIS, who &as big prosperity wave will soon sweep over the entire country f Jl SAYS ITER PIPES ARE BADLYGLOGGED Pipe Expert's Preliminary Report Filed With Water-works Water-works Department Salt Lake s water mains are co clogged with depos ts on the inside of the pipes that the carrying capacity has in many cases been reduced to less than, half of what it originilly was and in one important mtance to as low as 36 per eent This is shown in the preliminary re port of B B Hodgman pipe expert of the National Waterma n Cleaning com pany filed with C F Barrett, superin tendent of waterworks yeterdav Mr Hodgman has been engaged for the last two weeks making a survey of the wa ter distributing vstem with a riew to detecting leakage and loss of capacity He made twentv four tests bv means of the p tometer a de ice especially in tended for that purpose On a six inch main oh Lat Capitol avenue leading from the Capitol hill reservoir t was discovered dis-covered that only 36 per cent of original capacity rema ns owing to the clogginor of the p pe bv deposits. An eighteen nch 1 ne from the Thirteenth East rcervo r west on First South was found to have been reduced to 6" per cent, and numerous other mains showed reductions ranging from oO per cent of the original to o per cent. A test of a main which was cleaned a year ago revealed re-vealed 99 per cent capacity indicating the value of cleaning Superintendent Barrett will forward the report to the city comm ssion with a recommendation calling for the im mediate cleaning of the more important lines shown to be defective His recom mendation would call for an appropna tion of $655" |