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Show I Flood Waters. Power Rates, Plant Operation are City Dads Problems The recent heavy rainstorms with their accompaning flood waters, have brought problems prob-lems to local city officials according ac-cording to Mayor Ralph Orton, and the council used up considerable con-siderable time at Monday's meeting in discussing the answers. an-swers. The Sunday flood from side canyons from town to the for-bay, for-bay, washed under the hydroelectric hydro-electric pipeline in a number of places, undermining the concrete saddles sustaining the line, letting them drop clown. This could cause the line filled with water, to sag and spring leaks unless corrective cor-rective measures are taken. Also Sunday flood waters caused by the installation of the new overnight storage pond below the plant. The council also studied a new electric power rate schedule, sche-dule, to determine if a reduction reduc-tion in local rates can be made to bring our rates more on a competitive basis with those in surrounding communities. This rate reduction may be announced in the near future according to Mayor Orton. The council considered five applicants for the job of hydro-plant operator and meter reader, to take the place left vacant by the resignation of Clayton Tullis recently, and Howard Rasmussen received the appointment. He will begin be-gin immediately and will work under the second plant operator, opera-tor, Frank Mortensen, and City Ci-ty electrician Ross Guymon. The job pays $310 per month, according to the Mayor. rushed down around the municipal mu-nicipal swimming pool and some came in the front door, showing that the low-lying facility fa-cility is vulnerable to flood waters, with a retaining wall necessary to protect the pool. Fortunately none of the muddy mud-dy water got into the pool. It was also brought to the council's attention that rust spots are showing on the H. E. Penstock, showing the need of a re-tarring job on the line. At the request of some of the citizens living on East center street, a curb and gut 1 ter project on that street was discussed, and Charles F. Bur ton, chairman of the streets and sidewalks committee, was instructed to contact the residents resi-dents of that street, and fine out their feelings for such a project. If undertaken, it will have to be a special improvement improve-ment project with the abutting property owners to pay for it. Robert Rowley met with the council to present a engineering engineer-ing plan for the Parowan City airport. He was asked by the council to try to have a finished fin-ished plan for presentation to that body on an Aug. 14 meet. Rowley had been asked by the city to draw up plans for this project. Councilman D Robinson notified the mayor and council coun-cil that members of the Utah Water and Power Board would like to meet with Parowan City and Paragonah Town of-ficial&.at of-ficial&.at the Parowan hydro plant in the mouth of Paragonah Parago-nah Canyon to consider problems prob-lems arising at the plant by lems arising at the plant |