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Show POCATELLO COUNCIL FIXES WATER RATES Installation of Meters Not Compulsory at Present, nut May Be Made So Later. Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho, Dee. 16. The city council has passed an ordinance fixing the rates to be charged for water wa-ter where meters are installed. The ordinance or-dinance does not make tho installation of meters compulsory, but it is thought that such action will bo taken later. Iu addition to a minimum installation charge of $1, tho rates fixed arc as follows: fol-lows: For the first 'J0,000 gallons, CO cents per thousand; for tho next oO.OUO gallons, 15 cents per thousand; for the next 50.000 gallons, 10 cents per thousand; thou-sand; for the next 100,000 gallons, S v cents per thousand; for all in excess of 200,000 gallons, 5 cents per thousand. thou-sand. Flat rates for water furnished for building operations are: For concrete work, t) cents per cubic yard; for plastering, plas-tering, -j cent per cubic yard. Kates to be charged the public schools are: School district No. 1, $ 100 per year; Idaho Technical institute, $i!0o per year For private fire lines and automatic sprinkling systems: For each connection of two inches or less, $ti per year; three inches or loss, $10 per year; four inches or less, $15 per year"; six inches or less, $2.5 per year; eight inches or less, $27.50 per year. ! When the installation of meters was-! was-! first proposed considerable opposition arose, but experiments on tho part of City Clerk Aria Dawson and other cil officials has developed the fact thni. meter service at the rates named in th new ordinance, and which are merely tentative, will reduce tho cost to tho average family nearly 50 per cent. The results 'of these experiments are inducing a great many consumers voluntarily volun-tarily to install meters, and it is believed be-lieved if it is later found necessary to mako a complete chango to tho meter system, in order to conserve the water supply, that there will bo no further opposition. |