Show ICE CLOGGED SCREENS IN CONDUIT AND RESERVOIR CAUSE WATER SHORTAGE I Residents of ot the north and east bendles benches were without water water for several several several sev sev- eral hours this morning as a a- result of the freezing of ot water ater in the the outlet outlet outlet out out- let screen at the Fifteenth East reservoir reservoir reservoir res res- and nd the c clogging and freezing of or the intake screen of Parleys Parley's con con- dult duit The city water system is arranged arranged arranged ar ar- ranged so that neither of the difficulties would have shut hut off the water bu but t both cu cut toft off practically the entire supply of water In the two districts The Incident Is almost without precedent precedent precedent prec prec- In the records of the city water department At various times the intake screen has given trouble and at other times tho the reservoir outlet ha has las given trouble but never before have both given trouble at the same time according to of the I water department Emergency men of the water de department department de- de I answered the trouble call early this morning and immediately discovered that the flow of water through th the big conduit from the reservoir at the mouth of ot Parleys Parley's canyon had been stopped The trouble trouble trou trou- I ble was was located but did not ex explain explain ex- ex I plain why the water from the Fifteenth Fifteenth Fit Fit- Fiti i East reservoir was not feeding Into the system Some Some of the men I were dispatched to the reservoir and discovered the trouble there By Dy 11 a. a m. m the trouble trouble had been removed and water was again flowing into the mains Water department said that the work of or cleaning the screens would take all day but that the water supply would not I be af af- af footed |