Show Readers Reader's Query Raises Q Question estion I IOn On Water for Storage in Parleys Parley's I A reader taking advantage o of The Telegrams Telegram's offer to elucidate on any phase of ot our municipal water problem writes Has the Mountain Dell Doll reservoir In Parley Parleys carion canyon ever been filled to capacity I Yes Tea So far as availability of ot water Is concerned the present Mountain Moun Moun- tam tain Dell Deli reservoir appears to have been beena a sound undertaking It Itis Itis Itis is only with regard to any appreciable Increase of ot the present capacity that water right conditions on that stream will interfere Interfere Briefly the situation is this this- Salt Lake City has a decreed right of 01 85 per cent of ot the primary right of more than twentythree twentythree twentythree twenty- twenty three second feet There then comes comes a a. s secondary condary right of more than nine forty second feet in which this city has no no share Above three seventy-three second feet this city has the entire flow In a majority of ot years ears the city's primary ri right ht augmented by bythe bythe bythe I the surplus flow above the three seventy-three second feet during the weeks of ot the spring runoff Is more than sufficient to fill fm the present dam In years of ot flood such as 1922 this surplus would probably fill the capacity created by Adding forty feet to the height of or the present dam In average years it Is said I rights of ot the city would not give sufficient f for r the en enlarged enlarged enlarged en- en I reservoir and in years such as the present very little If any increase se could be had over the present capacity I Storage reservoirs are essential chiefly In dry years In flood years ears there is comparatively no summer mid-summer drought In dry years we can barely fill the present reservoir ir In wet years we wedo wedo wedo do not need the Increased storage |