Show p N CITY TO DRILL ANOTHER WELL Pocatello Votes Funds to Tap Underground Water to Offset Shortage POCATELLO Idaho Anticipated I water shortage In this section led the Pocatello cit city council Monday night to advance plans for the city city's supply The council voted to spend pend 1200 to drill a well just west of the rIver and south of the city limits At present two wells I powered with pumps of and horsepower respectively are jn in operatIon op op- cration there r With an additional horsepower pump to be moved from the old location to lo- cation ot at Ras park which has hos not been operated recently the pumping system will insure a adequate water in inthe the event the system supply l is exhausted said Elmer V V. Smith r I city councilman who has been active p for several years on the water devel program A survey showed many smaller t creeks runnIng into the system are nearing depletion unusually early E Also the authorities of the Fort Hall f Irrigation project have warned the ther r city that not more than one half the ordinary supply of irrigation water r can be expected from that source r this year ear In normal about 20 cent a year per 1 or of the city's total consumption is met 2 with the canel caMI wales which is used p for lawns end gardens of citizens and for irrigating the city cemetery and some ome p parks n It le sens the draw on the hIgh pressure system When Pocatello last experIenced a awater water shortage In 1926 1920 the wells were drilled A preliminary survey r indicated the valley had a floor of water reported report then to be s i tible It has proven satisfactory in inthe n the past and in a normal norral year has hast t f supplied more than 50 per cent of the consumption in midsummer The also agreed to 0 move cit city offices Into t temporary quarters r r. r at East Cen Center er street within the next 30 days das to allow construction a of the new Center street treet subway ar n a r P W A project The viaduct under t the east win wings or of which the offices t f. f now Holy arc re located ed is to be dismantled I |