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Show ACTION PLANNED ON UTAH LAKE P0LUTI0N PROBLEM Possible solution of Utah county's coun-ty's sewage disposal problem took a long step forward last Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon when the county commission pledged half of the costs of a pollution and disposal survey up to $2000 for the commission's com-mission's share providing various communities of the county pledge the other half. Work is to begin immediately immedi-ately on the part of tho Utah county planning commission to allocate the necessary allotment allot-ment among the various cities and towns, and city councils will bo asked to pledge that amount. The foregoing action took place at a meeting in the county commission com-mission chambers of the city and county building, and received the unanimous endorsement of about 35 representatives of the various communities. While delegates from various cities were in favor of the plan, they pointed out they could not commit their city councils to any actual appropriation something some-thing which ' the councils themselves them-selves must decide. County Commissioner Retl J. Knudsen pointed out today that while an attempt will be made to raise a total of $1000 if necessary, it is believed not all this amount will be required. re-quired. At least one reputable (Continued on Page 2) Lake Pollution Problem (Continued from Page One) engineering firm, he sad, has indicated it will submit a bid far under this figure for the job. , . p ! The sudvey would be, in brief, for the purpose of finding out where Utah lake is being polluted, to what extent, and how the situation should be remedied. Following Fol-lowing results disclosed by the survey work could then be started toward correcting the situation a step which will probably require suitable sewage disposal facilities for all polluting agencies. Several petition-, have been I filed with, various governing I agencies of tve county recently, re-cently, advocating that sonie-! sonie-! thintt bo (lone about the sevv-! sevv-! ago disposal problem now po'-i po'-i luting Utah lake. Largest of J these, from the municipal section sec-tion of the Women's Council, I who gathered 500 signatures from organization heads who j said they represented a total ! of 2000 women in Utah county. |