Show I STUDENTS RAP RUBBISH DUMPING ALONG RIVER PP ER OFFICIALS GET PLEA TO KEEP SECTION GLEAN CLEAN Complaints Protest Overflow From J J Jordan ordan 1 ti High school students quietly took Salt Lake City to task Tuesday in criticising city dumping dumping- rubbish along the Jordan river riverbanks riverbanks banks and expressing a plea that the city help make the river what it should be be-a be a civic asset The letter was sent to the city commission by the Jordan High School chool Civic club while the city was wasn in n the midst of a flood of complaints that lat water from the river i. i is flooding flooding flood- flood ing ng basements and forming stagnant stagnant stag- stag nant ant pools in low fields At the same time T. T H. H Humpherys Humpherys Hum- Hum state engineer rose to meet the ic flood problem with a proposal that lat some agency Salt agency Salt Lake City Salt alt Lake county the state or the theW theW theW W P A survey A-survey survey the Jordan river and nd Mill creek to determine the exact causes for the over overflow low sev- sev eral ral of which he l listed ted Made Survey The letter from the high school chool civic ivic club was signed by Gladys Barron Helen C. C Clayton Thelma Anderson Faye Young and Arlene Howard Joward It reported that the club had md finished a careful survey of the ic river area west of Fifth West Vest street treet and south of Second South street treet and called upon the city to help elp make the river a civic asset If the city cannot afford to dredge the he stream tream it should arrange at at least east to rake the banks now choked with weeds and rushes forming breeding places for mosquitoes and lowering the standard of sanitation the he club suggested We also earnestly protest the growing habit of ot dumping rubbish and md tree stumps on the river banks the letter continued saying that city have been doing this and asking that the same agency that was allowed to place them there be asked to remove them at once Referred to Department The letter was referred to the departments of streets and public safety by the city commissioners It asked also that Emery street be leveled and oiled that Eighth South street paving b be widened from Fifth West to Ninth West streets and ana stop signs erected at Ninth West Wet and Fifth South streets The suggestion of surveys came from Mr Humpherys after protests against flooded conditions had been received by E. E Ray Christensen as ass assistant as- as s tant city attorney Mr Humpherys Humph erys errs pointed out that the problem is s common to other parts of the state notably along the Sevier river between Salina SaUna and Redmond He predicted that the problem of jurisdiction whereby now neither city ity county nor state has authority to o act would be settled by the next legislature Four Causes Pointing out that the problem arose from seepage rather than from the streams overflowing their banks Mr Humpherys listed four causes for the condition 1 Stream beds and banks be becoming becoming becoming be- be coming overgrown with weeds and filled with debris during drouth period 2 Restriction of stream width by property owners filling in along the margins of their land 3 Barriers in the form of dams i fence lines and bridges 4 Lack of maintenance along the banks to permit easy passage of the water He suggested that more effective means of halting the seepage could be taken if surveys determined ex exactly exactly exactly ex- ex what caused local conditions |