American Fork Citizen | 1914-07-25 | Page 4 | Big Jordan River Pumps Not to Operate This Year

.11(1 JOltDA.N KIVIMt lT.MI'S NOT TO OI'lIltATK THIS YIIMC Tho big pumps at tho head of Jordan Jor-dan River will remain Idle nil this season. Tho lako still remains above compromiso point, which enables the rlvor to draw off by gravity from tho lako's surface all thew nter necessary ne-cessary for the farmors of Salt Lake I county. The normal flow of the rler now Is over 700 second feet, making 2)0 good Irrigating utreams rh ako's lovol is slowly lulling at the rate of from one-fourth to one-half .nch per day, but as tho farnuis i grain is ripening there Is less demand j for water, so that the demnnd is slow- ly growing less as tho season In- I creases.