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Show City Answers Mrs. Reichman In Regard to Municipal Power St. George, Utah April 30, 1941 Helen Reichman, Our Esteemed Fellow Citizen: We are grateful for your constructive criticism and truly appreciate ap-preciate your interest in public welfare. May we take this opportunity of re-assuring you concerning several sev-eral pertinent points involving our proposed power and light system? In anwser to your question No. 1, may we state that the choice of location for our new diesel plant is" completely a matter of public choice and correct engineering practice. Any site the majority of the citizens deem proper IS THE PLACE. May we also say that the manufacturers of diesel engine generating gener-ating units have assured us that no radio interference is possible with the proper construction and installation, and you may rest assured OURS WILL BE PROPER. Further, numerous buildings in the world have larger installations within the confines of their walls than our proposed plant and suffice to say the practice has not been discontinued due to vibration. We have inspected many power plants and we can definitely say that vibration is not appreciable within twenty-five feet, to say nothing of four or five blocks. In answer to your question No. 2, may we ask, "Do we need to chlorinate our present culinary water supply because it flows through steel and iron pipe's on its journey between the source and the faucet?" The penstock, water wheel and appurtenant structures in the proposed pro-posed system will be made of steel and iron and of necessity must be sealed completely because of high pressure involved and that the proposed pro-posed conductance of water will not in any way be changed as to purity. The only answer is an irrefutable, "NO THE CULINARY WATER WILL NOT NEED ANY TREATMENT". The capacity of the proposed power and light plant which varies from an absolute lcfw of 925 KW to a high of 1300 KW, with an average of slightly more than 1100 KW, is ample to take today's peak load and the peak load of several years to come. The Southern Utah Power Company reports an apparently computed com-puted peak load of less than 750 KW. Naturally there is no absolutely accurate way to foresee that the peak load in 1950 will be any particular figure. An. estimate is possible pos-sible by assuming several factors such as population growth, annual per capita consumption, etc., but such factors cannot be guaranteed. However, How-ever, you have our promise that before the peak capacity of our plant shall have been reached, the City of St. George will have had sufficient wisdom wis-dom to have provided another generating unit through the use of profits accruing from the consumption of so much additional electricity. Most assuredly, Mrs. Reichman, you may use any and all of your appliances just as you do now AND YOUR BELL WILL BE LESS. May we again say we are grateful for your interest in public affairs and are anxious to be of further service to you. Respectifully yours, ST. GEORGE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. |