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Show Water Use Up for 1968, f Says Modb City Over 100,000 more gallons of water were purchased this year than the previous, according ac-cording to figures released by Mayor Winford Bunce this week. There were 347,559,000 gallons gal-lons of water purchased this year as compared to last year's figure of 347,453,000. Financially this amounted to $115,396.44 for this year, and $115,140.06 for last year. The big water use month in 1968 was July when 55.82 miSlion gallons were used. Last year's high month was in August with 55.42 million gallons being used. The past year's high month exceeded 1 1967's, climbing to a record ' month of water use. Mayor Bunce noted that i the reason our August of 1968 was down, was due to the wet weather experienced last summer. Bunce also noted that the Stephensen Drilling Company Comp-any of Holden, Utah will begin be-gin moving in within a few days to begin drilling the new well for the city. The , well will be drilled near No. 6 green at the Moab golf course and the water will go into the City system to be used as needed. |