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Show -GOLD GGililNUES Practice of .'Running Hydrants' at Night Left the Reservoirs Res-ervoirs Dry This Morning. rither the weather will hare to moderate mod-erate or the people of this city stop letting let-ting their hydrants run at night, or the supply of water for Salt Lake City will toon be. exhausted. 'According to the weather bureau there is little prospect of the first alternative, and as regards the latter, the citizens will melt enow to perform. their ablutions If they . do not awake to the gravity of the situation situa-tion at once. ' . Superintendent of Waterworks Frank L. Hines said this morning that the" running run-ning hydrants last night took the water out of the system: just as .fast as It ran in. There was not a drop of water In the brick reservoir at the lower end of City creek this morning; the water in the other reeervoirs was at -the same level this morning as it was last night, where it should have been several feet higher. - . - t .' In the Thirteenth East reservoir there is twelve feet of water, and in the one at Capitol Hill ten and one-half feet his morning. All of the water from Parley's creek runs into the .Thirteenth East reservoir but there was not any more water this morning than last night. - - Mr. Hines fcays the matter is becoming becom-ing most serious, and the efforts of the whole department will be' Unavailing if v the people continue to let the water run to waste. "Yes, there is an ordinance against it," he said with vehemence, "but it would take a thousand men to enforce it. . The people should realize the situation, sit-uation, and if they would cut the water off In their basements there would be little danger of their pipes freering." This morning he said there was only a pressure of 95 pounds when it should have been 110. . r ' ; The mercury was 16 degrees below zero at the High Line reservoir this morning and 8 degrees below at both the City creek and Parley's creek reservoirs. res-ervoirs. At both the latter places forces of men worked all night in the biting cold to keep the channels open, and another an-other force of men are working today. In City creek they have cut a channel for eight miles through the ice. There is about four feet of solid Ice in . the creek bed and about four inches of water. wa-ter. - ' ' Reports were coming into the Water' department thick and fast all morning of bursted pipes and hydrants, and the emergency men are kept upon 'the Jump. Superintendent Hines says if they had cut-off or if those who have them would use them, thts trouble in most cases would be avoided. In the business portion por-tion of the city where meters have been put in, there has not . been a single bursted pipe or hydrant thiswinter. |