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Show SnGy Pteiras Bm& Dss.ooe Fe D(2veiipififi)einiG The Cedar City Council In meeting last Thursday evening decided that to meet the need for an increased supply of culinary culin-ary water, steps should be taken now to add the Quitchapaw spring to the system, and authorized auth-orized the mayor to proceed with plans for a bond election to add the water supply to the system. The water was acquired some time ago, a well driven, but the supply has been held as a reserve re-serve until the need became more acute. Now the city administrators ad-ministrators have decided .that the water should be piped into the system as soon as possible. To accomplish this It will be necessary to Issue bonds, and a bonding firm has been employtd to study financing and make re I ommendations on prep' n for such an issue and for handling hand-ling of the bonds if the issue is approved by the voters. To add the Quitchapaw supply and properly distribute It about the city would entail laying of about 11 miles of pipeline from the well to the south tanks of the city system, and the installation instal-lation of tw new tanks, one in the southeast section of the city and one in the northwest section. The estimated cost has been set at about $100,000, Mayor Arnold Anderson states. The mayor also points out that this program will not Interfere with he city's plan to bring water wa-ter from the Kolob Reservoir Into the system. The city owns a two-fifths share In the reservoir ("I'.ers, the mayor says, and will itetAln this Interest so that the water may be added later when needed. The Edward L. Burton Co., bonding firm of Salt Lake City, will begin a study of the situation situa-tion in Cedar City this week to determine whether revenue bonds or general obligation bonds should be used for the water development program, and will proceed as rapidly as possible pos-sible on the project. Mayor Anderson An-derson says. . , In the meantime the city is faced with a rather critical wa- f ter supply problem, but with the completion of a new line in Cedar Ce-dar Canyon to conserve water, and with cooperation of citizens In the use of water, the water supply should be sufficient to meet the needs of the city until the Quitchapaw supply can be added to the system, the mayor pointed out |