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Show City plans to save on wafer McHilton Roberts, waterworks water-works superintendent, has been authorized by the city to begin be-gin a program of refitting pipe joints in the city water system sys-tem with special seals in order to cut down leakage. He reported at the council meet this week that lead joints throughout the city were leaking leak-ing badly and should be repaired, re-paired, so that water could be pumped from the two new wells, one of which is nearly completed. He said his department could repair approximately 20 joints per day using a special rubber rub-ber or neoprene seal, that the most serious leaks were in the 10-inch line of 10th South. The council authorized City engineer John Neff to draw up plans also for cementing the high-line ditch which serves ser-ves the east bench area to cut down the loss of water from seepage. The council has budgeted bud-geted $5000 for the project and will call for bids when the plans are completed. |