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Show South S. L. Makes Sewage Proposal Batten Down the Hatches, Slates, the Scupper Are Awash v ) I KNEE-DEEP WATER FLOODS HOME A' S. Fred Kershaw salvages bedroom furnishings . TOVH OFFERS CASH payi.:eiit, YEARLJfREIITAL Bond of 'Good Faith' Also Tendered for Connection The town of South Salt Lake, through Robert R. Fltts, chslnnan of the board of trustees and titular head of town government, Monday submitted a statistical and financial finan-cial proposal to Salt Lake City in an effort to secure connection be-tween be-tween the town's (500,000 sanitary sewer system and the city system. The proposal, which contained financial offers to the city on the - -basis of rental and connection fees and guaranteed a "faithful par-formance"? par-formance"? cash bond, was gives John B. Matheson, city commissioner commis-sioner of streets and engineering, who met late Monday afternoon with other members ef a special committee to consider the offer of Mayor Fltta. The principal points outlined In 1 the proposal are that South fleKV Lake, which already has practically completed construction of Its mains and arteries In the sewer system, construct a 21 -Inch trunk line from 2100 South and 200 West streets, where the town's own sewage disposal dis-posal plant, now an abandoned project, was to have been constructed, con-structed, to Thirteenth South and Third West streets, where It would connect with the city's (0-inch trunk line. Annual Beatal ' From the latter point, the city's mains would carry sewage to the city pumping plant at Eleventh West and Ninth North streets and ultimate disposal. The proposition offers, first, ' rental of 13000 annually, the figure fig-ure being fixed on estimates that South Salt Lake would discharge about one-tenth as much sewage aa the city systsm now handles, which the proposal states also Is estimated on the city's sewer investment in-vestment The rental figure, based on t per cent amortization, would amount to only 12100 yearly, according ac-cording to the proposal, with the other 900 offered as the town's proposed share of pumping operation opera-tion charges. gMM ree Offend . Second, a $9000 payment as fee for connection of the proposed South Salt Lake main with the city main, and third, a cash bond of, 15000 ta be supplied as a guaran-i tee of "falUiful performance" of any possible contract the town and the city might negotiate as a result re-sult of the proposal. - The proposal la the latest result , of the town's efforts to secure a sanitary sewage system. An earlier plan, to construct a town disposal plant was abandoned after Clyde C Kennedy, a sanitary engineer from San Francisco, Cel., declared the plan not feasible after an investigation. in-vestigation. Kennedy recommended, recommend-ed, la substance, that the town's system be connected with that of Salt Lake City. -LOOK AT THE BAIN COME!" Laurel Welch buttons up as rain pours |