Show Moab Water No NoW r. r Nearing Completion Stage i did t y I E Et I Ii 4 i t 4 I 1 r rk ti 3 1 k r 7 1 p y r WORKING ON WATER PROJECT PROJECT Crews Crews Is only one small portion of major water and of Grand Mesa Construction Company are ewer sewer construction and Improvement project shown here putting new water and sewer being undertaken by Moab City lines across Main street near 2nd South This r r t. t J I t J J Jr r N Y Y y wJ wiles x ci a la j iTC I STACKS STACKS OF PIPE Large PIPE Large stacks of cast City but are fast as Grand Iron pipe In varied diameters have been I Mesa Construction Company puts them in placed around at various locations in Moab place i The phase of ot the he 1 t l City water t is te underway y at et the tho present t. t time line end and reported to be GG pet t tent cent t nt completed It was announced l d by Moab City this w week ek Completion date for Cor the project is set at January 7 1 The Grand M Mesa Construction C Com Cont Company m. m pany parry of Grand Junction Colo ato completing the installation If materials portion of after receiving the Ute b bid 14 v tit fat t added a n second W Won v von on Tue Tuesday dRY to pu push h u tb the p t t tto to ItO completion on schedule 4 fit t possible to t avoid penalties s The orf original inAl bond voted f forthe for forthe r the city project amounted amo to Out of this sum surn the city had to pay payoff off bond indebtedness indebtedness edness amounting to Ito 2 and another for pe e c Springs and Somerville No 1 spring development picots pi- pi j- j rots cots This left leD IB n total of for the planned w water and se sc sewer vet et project for the tho city The project was divided Into 4 schedules No 1 was the Ithe spring development project at Som Sorrier Somer r- r yule ville No 3 at No 2 was the Inch IG pipeline running running running run run- ning from the spring to Ito distribution distil distri button system and tank at t a ra total cost con of and No 3 was the Ahe million gallon tank r res rest s for storage nt a cost to the thc c city ty of These first three projects are ere completed com corn Schedule No 4 includes the water distribution system throughout the city This project project project was divided Into two por por- The bid for supplying all materials materi Js for the project was let to Pacific States Cast Iron Co of Total sum of this port portion of Schedule le N N. 4 amounted amount amount- ed to less deductions de de- allowed by the company company company com com- pany If they furnished all of the materials used making a total of To date over 90 per cent coot of the materials have been delivered Portion No 2 of Schedule No 4 was the installation of the materials Contract for this was let Iet to Grand Mesa Construction ion Company of Grand Junction jor the low t bid of To date they 66 cent nt ore ere per completed completed completed com com- and have spent as of Nov 1 Since that date an estimated additional sum has been spent sport on the project The construction company has added a second crew to try to push Ithe project through to completion by the January 7 deadline The sewer treatment plant is next on the agenda agroda for the project At the present time a e adelay adelay delay is underway due to the questioning of the advisability of constructing a certain type of sewage disposal plant as planned for Moab Questioning the planned construction is the State Department of Health and the Utah Water Pollution Con Con- Board Boord Approval of these state agencies agencies agen agen- cies des Is needed in order for the city to qualify for a grant of some 40 thousand from the Federal Fed eral Government to apply on plant costs According to city officials until these funds are approved construction of ot the new sewage se plant cannot be i iThe The question seemingly arose I from lack of knowledge by Utah officials on the type of ot sewage plant pant planned for Moab They requested a more extensive and more expensive type of sewage treatment using previously previously tried in the state Moab City's argument Js Is based on laboratory research and seven years of operation outside Utah of ot the newer end and more Give ive type trpe of treatment plant A meeting will wUl be held In Salt Lake City on Dec 20 between be be- tween the Moab City engineer and Md the State Water Pollution Board in an attempt to get the project underway City representatives representatives here feel that on this meeting hinges the hopes of re receiving receiving re re- permission to use the newer r and less lesa expensive type sewage disposal plant and end re receiving reo re the government funds to make the project possible Governor Clyde at a meeting with Moab Mesh officials a ft few weeks ks ago prom promised to investigate the matter It is hoped he will wUl appear app appear ap ap- ap- ap p pear r at the meeting A Moab c city I t Y engineering tf I spokesman pOk said today all ail remaining re reo mal monies mom in the water system m bond funds will be use used for the sewage ay system If It the State instate X on Xa a more expensive sive vo type of ot pliant pleat the ov overall picture of at t use UN of Ute the remaining funds will wll be altered considerably consider consider- ably i |