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Show OPEH PI HYDBITS FOR GLBRIN6 WATtH Members of Water Department Depart-ment Get Rid of Results of Big Cloudburst. Special to The Tribune. OGDKX. Sept. L'4. By opening fire hydrants in vaiious parts of the city and allowing the water to run for several hours the water works department today succeeded in almost clearing the mains of tiie muddy water resulting from a cloudburst in Wheeler canyon Friday night. The water, is still slightly brown hut Commissioner M. U Jones, superintendent superin-tendent of the water works department, was certain this evening that the reservoirs reser-voirs and service pipes would contain only clear, pure water from the artesian v. ells by Monday morning. In the explanation of the failure of water wa-ter -works employees to have the roiled water wa-ter from Wheclor'creek canyon turned oft" before iL entered the, main pipe iine Friday Fri-day night Commissioner Jones says a landslide in Ogden canyon destroyed telephone tele-phone communication and it was impossible impos-sible to reach C. A. Porter, city watchman watch-man at the power darn. Mr. Porter, according ac-cording to the commissioner, is not authorized au-thorized to cut off the supply of w ater from Wheeler creek canyon unless instructed in-structed to do so by some person in authority au-thority representing tiie water works department. de-partment. The forty-eight hours of muddy water has resulted in one benelit at least, according ac-cording to Commissioner Jones, In that it has permitted Fred Packer, assistant superintendent of the department, to discover dis-cover leaks in the canyon pipe lines. At several points it was discovered that dark colored water was flowing into the clear water of the Ogoen river and upon close inspection It was found that each inflow of dark 'wa'er represented a leak in the pipe lines. Repairs will be made at once. |