| Show SALT AlJ Boa LAKE NEEDS 1 l g WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM Y EXPERT 1 WOUlD p PREPARE frA f fO FOR C GROWTH T TO 50 City Should Adjust Its Plans for Big Increase se sein in Population During the Forthcoming Years Ralph R. R Woolley Engineer Engineer Engi- Engi neer of United States State Ge Geological logical Survey Outlines Outlines Out Out- lines Project for g WARNING DARNING Salt Lake against the popular fallacy that an n adequate water Avater supply f r the city is easily casily obtainable Ralph R. R Woolley V y engineer of the water utilization branch of ot the United States geological survey has bas prepared a statement for The T Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- legram le- le gram indicating that it may may be necessary to go from to OO miles mlles for a sufficient supply for a city Although giving no definite Information in information information in- in formation concerning available sources Mr Woolley has indicated that It may be necessary to go to the upper reaches of ot the Green river in Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming or of ot the Bear Dear and Logan rivers or the lake region of ot the high Uinta mountains Talk of ot a cr creven even a expenditure as the next move I in water supply increase Is idle ac according according ac- ac cording to Mr l Woolley who says sas that Salt Lake may as well accept the tho inevitable and plan for at least leasta a bond Issue to Insure the needs of ot the future The Iha statement comes from ex- ex an expert expert ex pert on water supply and watersheds who has an intimate knowledge of ot topography and hydrostatic conditions conditions condi condi- throughout the intermountain countr country Ho He looks forward to a city of ot half halt a million people not many years hence and argues that If proper provision is not made for them at this time intervening rights of ot other communities and cities may forestall Salt Lake for tor all time Lack of ot vision in the past has already cost I f this city large sums he says every year of ot delay now will only add to the ultimate sum necessary to provide provide pro pro- vide for the people GROWTH IS RAPID A beautiful city is always the ob ob object ob of ot much admiration and we hav have just such a city said Mr Woolley No doubt every resident of ot Salt Lake Lalta Is proud and Justly justl so of ot our city and we hope to always be The city however is growing rapidly and as asa asa asa a matter of ot fact much too rapidly for some of ot its facilities among which and possibly the most vital is the water supply This problem of ot water cannot be given too serious consideration by each and every everyone one of ot us No one Continued on page 8 EXPERT WOULD Continued from page 1 1 would like to eliminate our drinking ng fountains on the streets or the crys crystal crysta tal I streams flowing flowing- down the gutters or 01 any other beauty features depend dependent nt upon the water supply yet we all at l seem to forget that the city Is sho short rt of ot water every summer and is g getting get get- et- et ting shorter ev every ry year in proportion on to the Increased demand from t the growing population Of Of course there is no question th tha that thata at ater a more efficient distribution would be effected if it per cent of the w wat water ter er were metered In place of ot about 29 per cent at the present time B But this relief would be only temporary tempora y and the city would again be co confronted con con- n- n fronted with the same problem I No doubt much assurance is placed ed edus In the possibilities of ot the vario various us streams entering our valley to t the he heis east of ot the city and the remark is often made that there Is an abundance abu n- n dance of f water In those thosa streams if it It were properly conserved and di distributed dis dis- std s- s This is only partially true tru se e There Is sufficient water there if it properly handled for perhaps a peri period od of ot a few short years But what the theIn then n In the meantime the flood and surplus us waters of ot other streams are being p put putto ut to beneficial use so that the lon long er erwe we delay In planning and secure securing our future water supply the harder it is going to be to get It and the themore more more it Is going to cost It It is not unreasonable to say that tint Salt Lake City will within a few years ears have a population of ot or more because Utah possesses among its undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped un un- un- un developed resources the greatest iron fron I I deposits In the world and these will j undoubtedly be developed with the result that the city will grow by by- leaps and bounds I We Ve all know or should at least that our present water supply is in inI inadequate inadequate in- in adequate for the city toda today and by I some inquiry It is easily learned that I there Is not enough water and proper I storage facilities in the streams adjacent adjacent ad ad adjacent jacent to to the city to provide for a aI large city such as we expect to have I Accordingly why not view the conditions conditions conditions con con- fro from a broad a angle le and n nd lay f. f A j I water supply to toI plans for a future I care for at least people GO CO MILES 10 If It it Is necessary to go fifty or or miles to get the kind o of ot water I supply we need by all means n do u. u will permit permit permit per per- Such plans can be made as peri i mit development or ot orthe of ot a continuous the one big idea and it would undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un- un I et-I I be better to focus our efforts ei- ei forts on such a plan than to live t I I to speak and I from hand to mouth so j I have a multiplicity of small units I which In the aggregate will likely while cost I Imore more more than one big development development while I In to the end our supply will be again I Ibe be insufficient More than fifteen years year ag ago It f I was was wa suggested by one of or our t I P I that the city secure the necessary star I water rights and reservoir rights on I the Strawberry river and build the Strawberry reservoir for a city water supply Of Pr course such a suggestion at that time received no serious coni con con- i and was regarded as an Idle dream r CHANCE LOST I It Is easy now to see what a won won- water supply the city might have had and the water problem would have been solved for many years to come Furthermore the electric power which could have been developed developed developed devel devel- along with this project would furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish sufficient revenue to pay all Interest m- m terest on the necessary indebtedness to to build the they project and for many years years the surplus water supply could be bo leased for tor irrigation purposes and be a source of ot no mean revenue But the Strawberry reservoir possibility is isI I i gone and we are now confronted with the necessity of looking further for our future water supply There are other possibilities left and though they may not bo be so good and are perhaps more distant we should not sit idly by and watt walt until they have lave likewise been utilized but act Immediately and by careful study decide on the one which is next best HAD SAM SAME E PROBLEM Tho city of ot Los Loa Angeles was at one time confronted with just the same sameI I problem that is now before us The result sult was the building of the Los AnI An- An V I U geles aqueduct to carry water wafer wal mountains three ridges and ja a 01 desert stretches for a dIstance distance ot miles p This undertaking was dented and cost more than 2500 2503 yet even now only five years the completion of ot this project city Is planning for Its water fifty years vears hence water JB Why should the people of f SalT be satisfied to extend the pre s tl t tern by piecemeal on a water wate s su that will not be bo ample for future and overlook the big bl- development would suffice for many years a great source of civic Bride t t cost several million dollars but it ft worth it iU |
