Show Water System Emptied Each Day Moab City Council Told The Moab Moab City Council Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night issued an urgent plea pica picato to residents to cooperate In conserving conserving con con- serving water and In conforming to necessary restrictions that might be placed on water use Residents are arc re requested to re refrain refrain re- re frain from watering between the hours of 10 a. a m. m and 6 G p m. m so that the city's storage facilities will not be entirely de do Councilman David Allen explained ex cx- that present facilities cannot meet the tremendous demand demand de de- de mand placed on the storage and rind line tine system without placing the city In a dangerous position in regards to the water available for fire or other emergency Water is flowing through the storage tanks most of ot the day dy lY leaving the city v with th no reserve V Night time accumulation Is depleted depleted de dc- dc by afternoon by the heavy demand on the storage tanks The city has only two tanks of gallon capacity and both are only three three fifths fifths effective due to deposition and the lack of difference in elevation between between be be- tween the tanks Although there is water enough enough en en- ough to supply the demand there lis Is no way at present to get It I into the system quickly enough to cope with the nerds needs An eight Inch line connecting the two tanks is not sufficient to keep r the lower tank filled and the lines lines below it operating at peak capacity As a result water runs through the tank and out as quickly as it enters Plans call for the construction of a one million gallon storage tank and anda a twelve Inch line to the lower and nd smaller smatter steel tank but they are still in the engineering stage and will require a bond election to finance Departmental supervisor supervisor- Allen Allen Al Al- len Ion and Water Superintendent Fred Dalmus said Tuesday that It is very probable that restrictions restrictions will become necessary before before be be- fore end of summer unless residents residents' rest resi dents dents' cooperate and comply with proper hours for watering Con Con- at this time are arc identical with those of the peak period last year when hen the weather was wasat wasat at its hottest Until some changes can be made in the storage and carrier system Moab will be faced faced fac tac- ed with a continued emergency in inthe the amount of can be held In reserve Allen Atten said sald 1 problem w worse Is the fact that the approximately 75 per cent of the water supply is into the system by pumping making an electrical failure another major emergency that might catch the with no water wate reserve reserve |