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Show SCHOOLS BACK PLANSFOR WELL Development and distoilbution of water from a well owned by the Jordan School District would not duplicate an existing water utility system, and would save taxpayers money on a long-term investment, the Jordan School District Board of Education declared de-clared Thursday night of last week. The board took exception to allegations made by the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District in a letter made public last Thursday to Gov. George D. Clyde. The letter charged the school district with spending "substantial "substan-tial sums of money to duplicate the expenditure for water facilities facili-ties made by other political units, including our district." The school board countercharged counter-charged the conservancy district with trying to "corner all the dater in the county." The controversy arose over school board plans to develop a well to supply water for the Edgetmont School in order to a-void a-void paying the 25 cents a thousand thous-and gallons charged by the private pri-vate water company supplying the area. The conservancy district letter to Gov. Clyde said the school board had set aside $57,000 to build a pipeline from the well to the school, in an area already covered by conservancy district pipelines. It would be economically unsound un-sound for two political taxing units, each levying general taxes on the same people, to build parallel par-allel water lines, the letter said. When seasonal demands do not require the full use of the water, the excess will go into Sandy City lines to provide supplemental water for them." He pointed out that low use by the schools would occur during dur-ing summer months when demand de-mand on the city's water supply was at its height. In other action last Thursday, the school board named Kenneth L. Prince, 36, of 885 S. 3rd East, Sandy, as board clerk to succeed Stanfley A. Rasmussen, who retires re-tires June 30. |