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Show CITY COMMISSION TO INSPECT RESERVOIRS Phoebe-Mary and Twin Lakes Retainers Said to Be Full of Water. The city's new water storage reservoirs reser-voirs at the head of Big Cottonwood canyon will be inspected today by the members of the eity commission and a number of other city officials. Both the Twin lakes and the Lakes Phoebe-Mary reservoirs will be inspected on the trip. The inspection party will leave immediately im-mediately after the morning session of the city commission and will go to Brighton by automobiles. A luncheon will be served at Brighton and the party will then go to the Twin lakes reservoir reser-voir and from there around the crest of :iie range to the ,Lake3 Phoebe-Mary reservoir. The trip from Brighton to the reservoirs will be made on horse-City horse-City .Engineer Sylvester Q. Cannon reported re-ported vosterdav that both reservoirs were completely" filled, with the water running over the spillways at both dams. This means a combined storage of 590,-000,000 590,-000,000 gallons of water as a surplus supplv for the citv. The Twin lakes reservoir contains " 350,000,000 gallons and the Lakes Phoebe-Marv reservoir has a capacity of 2-10,000,000 gallons. With this storage capacity, city officials believe there is no further danger of any serious shortage in the city's summer water supplv. The party that will make the inspection inspec-tion trip today will include Mayor V. Mont Ferrv, Commissioners V. H. Shearman. Shear-man. Hebe'r M. Wells. Herman H. Green, Karl A. Scheid; C. F. Barrett, superintendent superin-tendent -of -waterworks; S. Q. Cannon, citv engineer; H. K. Burton, water engineer; en-gineer; Dr. Samuel G. Paul, county sanitation sani-tation officer; J. L. Weiler. county sanitation san-itation inspector: M. L. Jones, water commissioner nf Odgen; Superintendent Corey of the Ogden waterworks department. |