Show WHAT THE WATERWORKS SYSTEM SYSTEM TEM REALLY fEALLY NEEDS m who twenty years ears ago built the present system which supplies Ogden with water has made madean an Investigation of the ph physical con or of the pipe lines reservoirs etc of the system and his re report port to the council will be presented this evening In Iii his recommendations of Improvements he says It Is truo that little money has been e pende l 1 on the system In nine nineteen teen years this neglect may mar he be due duc In part to the greed of corpora corporations tho th fault rests chiefly with the people q Ogden The former were not only harassed b by litigation at evers Cers urn hut iut the threats as to what the cit would do became so fre frequent frequent quent and so violent that no Lion lIou was justified In spending any large sum betterments lot troubles are arc ended and the city has now no a free hand to Improve and extend the plant Sonic Somo of these are urgently needed If a valor famine is to be averted Dur DurIng Ing all these years no extension or re repaIrs paIrs of any magnitude could be un on the canyon pipe 1110 line lIno for forthe I the tho reasons that this was the only source or of and the held only one days supply To 10 lesson lessen so great grant a risk I would recommend d that branch line b laid from the maui conduit to tap tall Cold Water Vater Creek There Is now a branch pipe eleon ele n inches in diameter and ancI sonic some feet long laid up this creel creek but It ItIs I Is too small to an adequate supply for the cit city What Whal Is needed Is Isan isan an addItional pille lh or of rJ eted steel about t twenty wont Inches In diameter so that lint UtO the of the two lines will willbe Le be nearly equal to that of the main By building two branch lines and InsertIng a submerged dam to cut off orr the seepage In Cold Creel Creek Canyon rind a gate to prevent the water from hacking lip Uj In the tho main conduit city could he supplied from this source for a or of about sixty das 8 hl hi the spring when the tho cree creek Is high This wm d enable repairs and tobo to be made on the four miles of the lie maInline and ox ex tensions to consist In my jUdg o 01 tho removal of the tho gravel graveland and Previously referred to which have been beon placed at above aboc tho the slavo stave pipe pillO the tho of the pipe nt at places where horo earth slides have havo occurred the renewal of all air valves s and n a new branch to Creek In iii this of abundant water witter supply there is ample In I Il rie to tb o city ly SInce this water waltr is colde ant and I better than that of Ogden river at the intake It should be To 10 tho at certain seasons a now branek line should be laid laiI up Wheeler Creek and extended down below the Power Powei dam whore It Il can c connected to the main conduit This proposed cd line IIno with a now concrete intake on Wheeler Creek would provo a vaIn able addition to the canyon anyon portion and insure to the tho citizens zt a hotter heller and purer water supply up to the cn ca capacity of the lie summer flow of this creek The Tho which I Ihno hare outlined for Cold Water Creek should be undertaken this full fall those of the tho portIon of the main line and Wheeler Creek not later latel than next spring In operating the system as It now Is the manager has no margin or of sak saCco t ty in caSe a break In the main feed pIpe and a fire were to occur at one and the lie same lime mm I 1 realized this do de defect feet when the works were built but nS no money was then to 10 be had fo for ad food pipes and It Is a surprIse to mo me that it has noel been remedied before To make th the situation under understood s stood I may state that thaC there is but butone butone one feed 1110 from rom the tho reservoir to the ell city and that if IC ny serious break occurred In this line IIno the city would be without waler vater Fortunately this his con condition can lle be easily remedied and the tho to my mind is to extend an n independent feed pipe from the new reservoir to connect with the tw twelve lo loInch Inch main on This now line should not be less than sixteen Inches In diameter and a pIpe eighteen ot Or twenty Inches would proVe piove more economical In tho end Perhaps the lie best route for tor this pipe would be down cloWn stroet The Tho pros pres pressures should be controlled h by pressure regulators In a manner similar to those on street This ex cx extension tension would not only provide nn an in independent dependent line thus permitting much needed repairs on the gates of the old line but hul It would take Its supply from the thc new reservoir which would really the tho plant as fill as the dis distributing is 15 concerned A large number of new residences have bave been built on Washington av avo nuo nue and vicinity at the south end Or of Ortho the tho since the works were buIlt and the Washington avenue maIn seems to bo be overtaxed during ling hours To reinforce the pressure on this main and to afford a dr of water I WOl d that the main on Quincy Quiney avenue be extended first south thou then west sest and con connect noel with main mainon on avenue Tho twelve Inch main on now extends ext to street and a line hue Is laId to 10 street two blocks of pIpe should be taken out and with t The line Une should then be extended south and east along the best route obtainable and finally con connected wIth wilh a main on Wash WashIngton WashIngton Ington avenue Other extensions between streets will vIli hc be required from tune time to time hlll these not nol considered be at this time rhe flie in the canyon conduIt and auth the extensions within the tho corporate of lie tho I I city herein recommended call for rOl no large expenditures of oC money rho profits derIved from rom the tue sale of water for the tho next two or oi three years ars should provide the tho required amount of funds I for the lie improvements outlined It has boon been suggested that the tho city purchase the stock of the Ogden Osden Bench canal canul The Tho priority or of this water right has never been beon questioned I and there it is no doubt that It would prove In varIous ways o of value to lie tho city Parties who have hae the best In iii Interests of the city at heart hav ad advocated advocated the purchase of this thin right and the construction of R a new low pres pressure sure plant fot 01 the city I would aol the purchase of this hits right providing the he water could be diverted at the tho thoI I present water works Intake on Ogdon rivet In that case a separate system would nolba not be required In case Uw the point or of diversion cannot be changed to a higher Point without Incurring heavy damages I do not think this source of supply possesses a high value to the lie cit In the first it would Involve the construction or of a anew anew new system and In iii the second the tho water would be moro more or loss less 1 Ogden Ogdon canyon Is destined to become one of the most popular sUl re rc resorts sorts in the ho Rocky Mountain and it il Is i rapIdly ly becoming with slimmer campers and cottages from one end to lo the other Such Sueh be beIng being Ing Its probable condition In the lie near future a water supply obtained nem lie tho mouth of so narrow a carryon canyon would have hac to bo be filtered to render It even eon safe to drInk The time line ihl como come whon Ogden will such a supply for street sprinkling sewer flushing and lye tho engines hut It can he cheaply hought I do not think the pay mont of a large sum would be advis adis advisable able at the present time lime rho questIon of stream pollution brings III Ii the lie need of greater lion ion In this on the tho walor vator sheds sholts I of both Cold Water and Wheeler Cree Its |