Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-17 | Page 8 | City Will Join Water Project

1 ia CITY WILL JOIN I I WATER PROJECT I. I Development of ot reservoir sites in III Little Cottonwood c canyon nyon looking to a a. more efficient use of or water l I from m that source will wUl be undertaken jointly by Salt Lake City and the Little Cottonwood Water Vater company city commissioners Indicated Tues Tues- dayI day I v A As th the city's first step In the matter commissioners appointed Charles V. V Gardner Sandberg place former of ot U the e city engineering staff to represent the city In the survey The appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment is effective September 12 at atA A salary of per month Expense of ot th the survey will be borne on an equal b basis bais ls by the Water water wa wa- Salt Lake City ter ter- company and which is 15 owner of ot 50 ro per cent ceni of ot the outstanding stock of ot the water com corn pany Preliminary costs of ot the survey survey sur zur- vey have not been figured Pr Preparatory work for th the tho survey will wUl start at once and will vill require ab about 1 t three weeks It will be followed fol fol- fol- fol Jo owed lowed ed by compilation of ot reports to City Engineer W. W D. D Beers who recommended Mr Gardners Gardner's ap ap- ap- ap Emphasis will be placed during the th survey on two possible reservoir cites ites one of ot which already has a small mall dam upon it known a. a as the theR R Red Pine dam The other site Is in Gad valley vaHey where application has already been made by the Little Cottonwood Water company to construct con con- a dam darn The Red Pine site will vilI be exam- exam med ined particularly with witha a view to enlarging enlarging enlarging en en- the reservoir by raising the dam It i is located about six miles up the canyon from from Wasatch Vas and a amile mite mile south of or the main highway 2 Gad valley vaHey although located farther r up p the canyon than the other site 7 is J nearer the highway