Show City Opens S Proposals On Second Major Maior Phase Moab City Monday o opened ned bids of schedule four tout of the too water supply system and Is stu stub I i dying seven bids on various types tyres of ot pipe Including steel asbestos cement clment and cast cut Iron The bids Monday were on materials ma only for tor the distribution Jt n of or u the water wil WItt project Th The Wi du de e eM was WM wasfi Iet M In fi at which t w dater tr from the them Somerville Sob So- m merville Spring number three was Introduced Into th the city system It Is ls carried 1 to the city by a sixteen Inch water line The line will eventually terminate terminate at ate In a one million gallon storage stor age reservoir near Mountainview Mountainview Mountain Mountain- view n. n The TM reason for tor the separate bids on the materials and construction construction con con- Is the desire to look over prices on several t types of pipe previous to the contractIng contracting contract contract- Ing of or the distribution system Consulting Engineer Davis Holder Hold Hold- er will now prepare sped specifications relative to Installation of each type according to the city offices Bids will be called caned for tor when the City Council determines de deb the type of or pipe they desire Suppliers bidding Monday In Included Included In- In eluded Pacific States Cast Iron IronPipe IronPipe IronPipe Pipe Co Co Smith Smith- Scott Co Ludlow Co ConsolIdated Consolidated Consol Consol- Western Steel Co Southern Sou Sou- them thern Pipe rIpe Co and Man Johns yUle vilie Co Six of or the bidders bid on both pl pipe and fittings and one OM Co of Salt Sail Lake City bid only on fittings Low bidders on steel pipe were Southern Pipe Co of or A Azusa Azusa Az- Az t. t usa California at Johns Manville bid lowest on asbestos cement pipe at Low bidder on the cast Iron pipe was Pacific Cast Iron IronPIpe IronPipe IronPipe Pipe Co of ot Provo Their Theil bid was Ludlow Co of or Salt Lake City bid lowest on fittings at 1998 The major part of or Moab's present present present pre pre- sent distribution system Is cast iron pipe Its desirability stems from the facts that the city has las the equipment and experience experience exper exper- lence to handle It now and the reputation of the pipe for dur dur- ability In the United States Slates cast Iron pipe put in service years ago Is still serviceable serviceable serviceable service service- able and in Europe it boasts of service since Napoleonic times The current water situation situations Is s labeled Improved by the city offices Cooler weather I permitted a up build-up of storage and the Induction of or the new spring bolstered the supply by byan byan byan an approximate gallons a minute It will probably be another ten days before the million gallon gal Ion lon storage tank can be put to use the city reports It must yet be filled and sterilized drained then filled again and flushed and finally filled for use Construction of ot the sixteen inch line to the tank Is still underway although the line has hasteen been teen tapped to put the water Into the distribution system |