Show Improvements in City Water Sewer System Planned Improvement and expansion of or the Moab city water and sewer systems to ad adequately servo the growing d demands de mands mantis of the community are planned by the mayor and ande city council and plans are now being drawn that call for the ultimate expenditure of around oO Construction of or oran an additional gallon storage reservoir extension of inch 8 water mains throughout the tho city elimination of all nil lateral lines under inch 4 to be replaced by y new 4 and and- inch 6 laterals installation of a new sewage disposal tank and extension of or sewer lines are arc among the tho improvements s. s planned J Win Templeton of the firm finn or of off Templeton Linke consulting engineers of Salt Lake City was In Moab and nd met with the city council to tD go over plans for the contemplated Improve improve- improve improve-i ments This This- firm has had extensive extensive extensive exten exten- sive experience In waterworks Installations Mr Templeton has I carefully gone over the the Moab system and he states that with completion of the recommended betterments Moab will have a avater awater awater water vater S system second to none Inthe in inthe the he state Cost of the project somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where around will be met by Issuing general oblIgation obligation obliga tion and revenue bonds It Is contemplated by the city coun COun- cil Mayor i George Burck states that the annual revenue from the water Vater and sewer systems to total total to- to t tal al about annually This a annual revenue revenue is sufficient toay to pay p ay all operation costs and provide provide provide pro pro- vide funds for Interest and principal principal prin prin- cipal payments on the bonds Mayor Burck Burek stated yesterday The city council points out t that hat It Js s absolutely impossible to give Mob adequate water s service ervice until storage capacity is i Increased and the water mains are enlarged Instead of conf confining ining in- in ing Its Improvement program to a small project each year the council believes the I proper roper pro- pro will wiil be to complete all aU needed betterments at once and amortize the cost over a n long period of years by the Issuance 0 bonds Engineer Templeton stated I that Moab Is extremely fortunate fortunate fortun fortun- ate In h having ving an ample supply P of pure spring so close at I Ir hand By iBy properly conserving r the supply by the Installation o of ofa a larger reservoir and larger barges mains the tho system will be adequate adequate ade ado quate for lor a city of ot people people- he stated Demands on the Moab water vater system have more than doubled In the last two or three years Mayor Burck stated This has been brought about by Increased c ed population the installation of hundreds of conditioning air-conditioning systems the installation of ot many sprinkling systems and a general general general gen gen- eral Increase in landscaping of ot homes with Increased demand for lawn watering The fIhe city has installed water meters to prevent waste of water water water wa- wa ter and while these have helped the Uie situation the fact has has' be beCOme become become be- be come apparent to the city counell coun- coun I coun-I ell cit that an extensive well well- planned betterment program must be undertaken if Moab oab Is ever to have an adequate tem tern S |