Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-12-27 | Page 3 | Enormous Capacity of Pumps

ENORMOUS CAPACITY OF PUMPS engineer have royal time on flying trip to le ht salt lake reec 24 to inspect the pumping plant at the mouth of jordan a parly 0 mayor bansford B governor cutler members cf the board of canal presidents members of the utah society of engineers members of the city counce and others made a flying trip over the rio grande to lt hl yesterday during the trip lehi citizens particularly the commercial club of that thriving utah county city left no stone to make the visit pleasant from every standpoint the excursionists were highly pleased with the treatment accorded them they returned to bajt ake at 6 p m the pumping plant Is about four miles southwesterly from lehl and consists of an underground canal and dam switching plant and the building containing the two sets of afefa power pumps the water raised from utah lako Is pumped into the salt lake and jordan canal and used in the lower salt lake valley tor irrigating the water bc ang granted the owners of the lands in exchange for their water rights in big cottonwood canyon creek there are ave pumps in the east end of the pumping house each driven by horse power electric motors with power furnished ly the utah county light and power company the max la alx and the pumps wren working under full pressure lift gallons a second each or a total of gallons in 34 hours at ull capacity the pumps would require 68 days in which to lower the level of the lake one toot assuming that thora was no fresh supply of water to the lake for that length 0 time taking as a basis tbt average depth of the lake as figured by the united slates geological survey gallons of water at compromise point with a continual replenishing which at times abo safety of the homes situated in the lower portions of the valley the at compromise point lc feet or approximately feet higher than the salt lake basin