Show underground hot spot warms city in oregon home owners pipe water into houses for heating KLAMATH FALLS ORE this bustling southern oregon city of 25 Is built on a hot spot which around these parts is considered fortunate hot ground water beneath the streets has been tapped to heat some homes a swimming pool two hospitals a high school a news paper office and several apartment houses and business buildings it sterilizes dairy and soft drink bottles and has kept boilers out of local self laundries and may heat a new veterans hospital to be built here if the test well now being drilled hits hot water to do that the well must probe an uncertain subterranean stream that boils diagonally across beneath the city outside town rap ranchers chers tap its warmth to keep hen houses corn fordable for table and to warm winter drink ing water for their livestock the state highway department even proposes to deice de ice a slippery approach to town in winter by lay ing pipes in the pavement heally really hot water to de grees fahrenheit is found at depths p varying from to feet in stalling the pipes in a foot well costs about 1 but this is the only cost until the pipes have to be replaced in six or eight years be cause of corrosion because of the corrosion the natural hot water is no longer pumped directly through heating sy systems instead a coil or U shaped pipe is sunk into the well and through this circuit Is pumped non corrosive city water which after being warmed is pumped through ordinary radiators or other heat mg ing units |