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Show City Plans Sewer Extension; Finishes Generator Installation in Canyon 3 Springville city will ask for bids in th every near future for the extension of the city sewer system on the east side of Main street from Fifth South to Seventh South and then east on Seventh South to Seventh East. The bids are expected expec-ted to be ready by the council meeting next Monday night and it is hoped that work on the new project pro-ject can get underway immediately.. immed-iately.. City officials also announce appointment ap-pointment of Milton Giles as the streets and walks superintendent, succeeding Claude Hill, who has accepted other employment. Work has also been completed by the city on the third and next to the last step in the half-million dollar Bartholomew water project in Hobble Creek Canyon, with the installation of a new twin-turbine hydro-electric generator. Pecent test runs have proven successful and the unit is now in operation adding considerable to the kilowatt hours of the city's electric power system. ; The new generator utilizes both culinary and irrigation water without with-out mixing it. It replaces a generator, gener-ator, which has been in use at the old power plant for 27 years. A pipe-line to carry the culinary culin-ary water to the Burt Springs Head House at the mouth of Hobble Hob-ble Creek canyon has been completed comple-ted and this new source of culinary water has added about three and a half second feet daily average to Springville's drinking water supply. sup-ply. The total amount of water available avail-able is now sufficient to supply a city of 15,000 population. The initial step in the Bartholomew Bar-tholomew project four years ago was the collecting and piping of water from the Bartholomew watershed district to a point at the forks of Hobble Creek canyon; can-yon; the second was constructed of a power plant at this site. The fourth and completing step will be construction of a power station to be known as the Union Plant at Burt Springs. |