Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-18 | Page 14 | More Water in City System

MORE WATER IN CITY SYSTEM Failure of Supply on East Seventh Remedied by Increasing In-creasing Pressure With the lifting yesterday of water restrictions which have heretofore been in force during the summer months, a shortage of water wu.s r, ported last night In tho vlclnit. -Seventh street, east of Madison avenue, ave-nue, This district was completely without water for several hours. it I was reported. Action Is to bo taken today to increase in-crease tho pressure m ihe downtown water mains which will overoomt Mr difficulty and provide j flew ii. all city sections, according to Mi -Frank Fran. -Is Tho increased upo" o water o s a rr-splt of the lifting of tho regulations was underestimated yeu-terday yeu-terday and Insufficient pressure was turned Into ihe downtown mains, was :-ald. With the starting of tho new pre sure, pump at the clt wells vestcrdav it wa.s believed that the increased flow would take care of all demand so that restrictions would not b necessarj in the future. The commissioners today j reported that ample water Ls being de-Ivelopod de-Ivelopod at the wella and turned Into tho reservoirs and that with the opening open-ing of additional valves In the dlstrr-bution dlstrr-bution system the pressure will be boosted so that It will reach every city point.