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Show ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT POINTS : : OUT CITY'S VITAL NEEDS; EARLY LETTING OF CONTRACTS IS URGED ' Several Important recommendations are made in tho annual report of Cily Engineer Joseph M. Tracy to Commissioner Commis-sioner Chris Flygnre. The practice in the past of using 2-linch 2-linch water mains is declared to be ) poor policy. ' Absence of devices to measure the amount of water used In tho cily is pointed our. Need for early yctlon in connection with improvonients for 3020 is urged before contractors gel "loaded up" with work and further price advances follow. Here in ihe text of the recommendations recommenda-tions made by the engineering department depart-ment "I would respectfully "recommend the following: "Thai a study be made looking forward for-ward lo an abatement of the condition I caused by the storm water entering the sanitary sewers and causing the frequent flooding of basements and cellars In the district bounded by Wall and Madison avenues and Ogden river and Twenty-seventh street. This study should be made in connection with ' the storm water falling within the; above area with a view in mind or con-! structlng a storm sewer along Wall I avenue from Twenty-seventh to Twen-I ty-first streets and discharging said) s.torm water into the present four foot ' sanitary sewer outfall and building an- other storm sewer along Twentieth! street and discharging same oilhcr into Ogden river or into the old Twen-' ty-first street sanitary sewer outlet. ! . m,ki viioin in., nut IJU JHSItill- od at the distributing reservoirs, at the int:lke and outlet, nlso at the source of supply, so that a correct record rec-ord may be obtained of water supplied and consumed by Ogden city. j "That the old 21-inch redwood pipe' leading from the bridge at Wilcox' to ; its connectin with the old steel rivet-1 ed pipe near Lewis' camp be gone over! thoroughly and put in such shape as to i prevent serious leaks and breaks. ! "That additional regulators be! placed on the supply mains at Twenty-1 rifih street and Twenty-third street' and that the water main on Twenty-1 fifth street between Harrison and Fil-j more avenues bt- lowered so as to con-' form to the paving grade when the! same is constructed. I "That a re-design of the distributing tvater system of the city be made and ! hat the plan adopted be followed in til future extensions. "That, in order to protect the city j igainst damage suits and against en- M'oachments on its water supply at the! rtcsian basin In Iluntsville. addition-1 tl laud be purchased in the bottomni under which lie the artesion basin. "That in the extensions of water mals no mains hereafter Installed less than six inches in diameter. "That tho city immediately proceed to the perfecting of Its water rights on the S,outh Fork of Ogden river and the construction of the Skull Creek dam. "That surveys, estimates lind studies stud-ies be' made for an ' additional supply main from tho source of water supply to the city. , "That pressure recording devices be installed on each well at the Artesian Well basin and a record of. the pressure pres-sure of each well be recorded each month. "That repairs be made on the three-, foot supply main at summit and at reservoir. "The uniform courtesy and helpful support, together with a very careful1 consideration shown by the Board of! Commissioners to the various recom-' mendations made, is very much appro-1 ciated. j "Excellent harmony has prevailed , throughout the department and gener-' ally speaking, the work accomplished ' ""a utiai uictiKtru wan promptness anu , efficiency on the part of every one; concerned. The success of the depart-! ment can be mainly attributed to the' alJle assistants employed and to the harmony and accord exiscling between I the superintendent of the department. Mr Flygare, and the other members pf the commission. The efficint service serv-ice of all members of the engineering department are hereby acknowledged. General Review j The engineering department gives a general review of the accomplish ' moms of the past year. This review 1 in part says: "Public improvement constructed by the city during the year of 1019 was) fibove the average both as to monev , expended and to extent of improve-1 ments. The higher cost of improve-! ments being the result of the general! Lilgh cost of labor and materials. "Soon after the signing of the ar-aiisticc ar-aiisticc in November of 191S, the city ay the necessity of immediately preparing pre-paring for an extensive program of! improvements. While bond issues wero voted on generally later than similarly bond issues throughout the the country, the engineering depart-1 ment pushed on its public improve- J ment work in advance or other cities In the slate, with tho result that Og-' den city received more favorable bids' inrespect to price than was received in ! the majority of cities in the state A saving of at least 15 per cent was thus obtained for the citizens of Ogdeu I through getting the public improve-; ment work started early in the year.' A similar policy this year, if followed i out, is sure lo give the people of Og-i tlen the benefit of a cheaper price for public improvements if the public! o murieii earij in me spring. I Waterworks and Water. Very little new work was ccmtruct-,ed.on ccmtruct-,ed.on the waterworks system with the exception of extending water matins in , the city, these cxtens tns being' principally prin-cipally of two-inch galvanized piper. As seen from the detailed statement! .submitted herewith. 12,785 feet of two-' ,lnch pipe was laid. 12SG feet of four-jinch, four-jinch, 853 feet of five-inch and 2040 feet io six-inch pipe, making a total length joC lC,9G-i feet of all kinds of pipe laid within the distributing system of the city. It will be noted that the length or the two-inch pipe laid -was nearly three times that of all other sizes placed. It is tho practice over the United States not to lay water mains less than six-inch diameter, except in a very few cases where some four inches in diameter is laid. While it would en-tall en-tall upon Ogden city an added expenso if nothing smaller than six-inch mains were luid, I think it an unwise policv to lay any main in the distributing svs-tern svs-tern of Ogden City loss thau six inches In diameter. A glance at the map showing the different sizes of the dis. tributing mains withja the city will show that nearly all the ends of the mains consists of two-Inch pipe and it is just a. matter of a very short time, when these two-inch pipes will have I to be taken up and rclald with larger I pipe when future extensions will have J to he made. Another disadvantage Is also that no hydrants can be placed lo! advantage on two-inch mains and hence the lire risk and excessive fire insurance rates arc a result of placing smaller than six-inch pipe. While we have no measuring de-j de-j vices showing the consumption of water wat-er within the city, from observations I have made and with the present consumption con-sumption during the summer months, it can "be fairly stated that the dlstrib-luting dlstrib-luting system must be immediately cn-Hargcd cn-Hargcd and additional mains bo con-, jslrueled to take care of the increasing water consumption, the present mains during the summer months being in- adequate for this purpose. No New Wells. "In the matter of water supply the cily did not sink any additional wells at Artensian Well park during tho year. The matter of supply of water for the cily Is becoming acuto at this time and. as stated before, as the city has no means of measuring the wuter supplied, it is a question just what wc ; do receive, but from the observations j I have made and from a statement of I the superintendent of-the waterworks !: department, Mr. Packard, during the! past summer the supply mains wercj! worked to their full capacity and for a I r i. - . u .. c. -i .. . . . ! in hS lllf IMIV NilH OUllgCQ 10 CUl 'out all sprinkling of streets and city parks in order to conserve the water supply of the cily, the supply mains being inadequate to supply the neccs- 1 isary water that was drawn from the icily reservoirs. Immediate attention ' must be given to this matter or tho City will rind itself without an adequate ade-quate water supply, especiallv ir a , U I. ! . 1. . . . . 1 iiuu.itv ui un.; buppiy mains or a disastrous disas-trous Tire should overtake us. ! Water Meters Urged, j "In this respect the city should ma- terially increase its water supply bv jthe installation or water meters on all I consumers. I believe the water consumption con-sumption could be cut down at least 25 per cent and probably by this I moans the construction or additional water supply mains could be deferred ,a few years. To put water meters on I all consumers that do onot have meters me-ters at the present time I would figure would cost in tne neighborhood of : $175 000, and I believe would be the cheapest method of increasing our water supply nt this time. In my judgment, judg-ment, there is no question but what there is a great deal of water wasted j in Ogden. the wastage being not only with the consumers themselves, but in the water mains of the city and in this connectionjit might be stated that a water waste survey of the distributing system of Ogden would disclose an enormous waste of water. "During the year, the city built 3.G-1 miles of pavement. Two types of paving pav-ing were, constructed, namely: Sheet asphalt pavement on a six-inch concrete con-crete foundation, and bithulithic pavement pave-ment on a six-inch concrete foundation. The work was very well done and completed com-pleted in good time, all paving work being completed before the winter set in. The city should continue its extensive exten-sive program of paving the streets of the city, as madamized streets and dirt streets have proven inadequate for the purpose for which they were intended. In ihe fall and "spring months of tho year some of these ! classes of streets being almost impas- sable and the only solution, so far as! 1 can see, is the placing of hard sur-1 faced pavements on all the streets of I the cily as soon as possible. oo I |