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Show EXPECT TO REMEDY SHORTAGE OF WATER Plans for New Keservolr on Fort Douglas Reserve Are Approved by Engineers. The cUy engineer's plans and sj cci-fications cci-fications lnr the new distributing reservoir reser-voir on the Fort oiiglas military reservation and for the Twin Lakes dam in Big Cottonwood canyon were approved by the .-itv eomrniion yesterday. yes-terday. Bids for hot h undertakings have been called for and will be opened October 1. The (list ribnti ng reservoir will con- 1 sipt of two units of l'l.ilOO.OOu gallons i capacity each, one unit to lie built this , vear at a cost of :n,i)no. Iu the Twin ! lakes reservoir 27Umi V)fi0 gallons will I be stored at a cost of about $7.0ii. Excavations for the Twin Fakes reservoir are about complete. The pouring of concrete will begin within two weeks, it is expectetl. H b the hope of the commission that these improvements in tho water svstem svs-tem will be completed in time to save the citv from anv embarrassment arising aris-ing from water shortage next summer |