Show HOW DENVER OBTAINS ITS lIS SUPPLY OF WATER City Engineer Peter I OBrien O'Brien Describes the Plan I Adopted to Provide Against Against-a a Shortage In order to aid the various special committees of ot the Commercial club in solving the water problem The Telegram has hils obtained a statement from the City Engineer of oC Denver as to the plan b by which the Colorado I metropolis obtains ob ob- ob its water supply City Engineer Peter OBrien O'Brien of or that city writes The T Telegram legram as follows The water supply of or the city of or Denver is la In the hands of oC a a. private cor cor- The city has always been supplied with water directly from the thc mountains all nIl of or w Is thoroughly filtered through sand before beCore entering the thc city to which it is delivered by gravity This supply is largely drawn from the Platte river and Bear creek and the rights were cre acquired through the purchase pur pur- chase of or large hage e tracks of or irrigated lands hands which were subsequently abandoned In part In order that the water might be diverted for domestic supply More recently this corporation has engaged in the construction of or Lake Cheesman sixty miles back In the mountains a a. reservoir with a capacity of gallons in which they purpose storing a a. two to three years years' supply as security against a phenomenal drought which would result r in shortage and which will be he constantly held in storage so long JonS as the consumption of oC the city can be kept within the limits of or the company's rights in the current flow of or the stream The present franchise grants the water company the privilege of ot Introducing in In In- the meter system under certain restrictions restriction at an any time but thus far tar no steps have been taken in that direction r I b believe e that the solution of ot the tho water question in all aU Western cities demands the construction reservoirs reser of or great creat capacities of or storage |