| Show M Methods of Sa Sa i Of i. i ft Huge Hug Supply of Water ater Studied by Engine Engineers rs City Co County ty and Bountiful Men M n Laur Launch ch Investigation Four Milli Million Gallons r r. r h N Now 1 0 f Wasted fasted asted Would Be S Saved ved 7 Sal ag Salvaging of gallons of water wa cr an amount equal to one one- half hall the total consumption of of- Salt Lake City in a dry year year- Is the object o of a a. joint investigation launched Friday by city and nd count county en- en n- n with officials of Bountiful m The project et ol in involves es construction of a sewage treatment plan estimated ed to I cost cot about OO in the vicinity of Ninth No North th and Eleventh West Vest str streets ets or a nearby nea-by point wh where re le Salt Lake City s wage sewage now diverted into nto Great Salt lake could q be purified Besides making available a vast amo mount amount r t or vater now now now- t wasted after be- be ing ng diverted fr Irons from m Jordan river into O. the lie municipal sewage canal the project would ultimately solve a confronted In tn connection n with the propos proposed ct dikin of f Great Greal Salt Sall lake to create ate huge fresh w water t ter terl r l k b tween Antel Antelope p island d e ast shore of of the Jake Jak l k Would Change Chane If It the fresh tresh water lake Jake is ever con constructed Salt Lake City v will ill have hav to o change ange Hs of sewage sew sew- age because the canal outlet is located at ata a point where it would empty into t the e- e new lake In addition to this the project would assure asure a a water supply for Bountiful Bountiful- and the Bonneville mi InI company both now confronted with a n water shortage due to the decreased de de- creased flow low in itt Jordan river Practically Practically cally all available water in inthe the river nv riveris is s now being utilized in the municipal sewage canal with the main man pumping plant lant located at Ninth North and Seventh Eleventh West streets The gallons allons is the amount of water which passes lasses through these pumps In anticipation of the time when the tr fresh h water lake would be built bunt and nd Use useable ble water made available Salt Lake City Citon on April 3 1933 filed an n application to use we acre feet or of the new water accrue acre r te feet et from the Weber river ver acre cre feet from froin toe the Joran Jordan Jor- Jor Jordan dan an and cr a fe t drom miscellaneous mis- mis us sources acco according ding ig to the application application- County Takes s Part Fart Salt Lake count county o officials I ial are arc tak tak- tak- tak ing part parl in the le Investigation In the interests o of the fresh tresh water lake Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward l E. E Howe chairman o of the county county county coun coun- ty commission has applied Jo to Robert toRbert R bert Fechner director of or the c civilian conservation conservation con con- corps W Washington D D. D C C. to have a C C C camp established in Salt Lake Lake- Lake county county near the thc of th the proposed dike o of the fresh water lake J If ucha a camp to Is ic established workers work workers ers would undertake kc various flood control projects while the they laid the ther r groundwork for the dikes dikes' f Howe I has asked D. D A. A Lyon ryon and md Joseph BI county surveyor both bolh bothof of or whom work worked vork-td d on the original surey sur- sur icy ey which indicated feasibility o of the thel dyke yke to furnish Mr Fechner with en engine engineering gine ring data on the project rM f Mayor J J. C Stocks of or B Bountiful has ap appealed aled to Salt Lake City commiss commissioners commis s to participate in in of or a sewage treatment treatment plant plant to be undertaken as a federal aid p project under tinder P PV V A. A The matter has been turned over oyer to City Engineer W. W D D. I Beers to investigate I t Must Restore Water If If such a plant is built arrange arrangements arrangements I ments meats will have to be made to restore purified water to the Jor Jordan an river ch channel before it would benefit the town of or Bountiful or the B Bonneville Irrigation company it was explained Considering th this s necessity makes the location of Ninth North and Eleventh Elev Elev- West streets the most logical spot for lor building the treatment plant engineers engineer said At that point sewage from the city's main trunk unk sewer has hasto hasto hasto to be lifted 18 18 feet by pumps before it is placed Into nto the canal and arid run into Great Salt SaIt lake To place the water back into the Jordan riv river r from front that point it would be necessary to construct approximately m tely one mile of ot conduit condu t. t running directly west iest on Ninth North street to the river channel |
