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Show WATER NOT PROM THE OLD RESERVOIR City Drawing Its Supply From the New Reservoir Which is Fed by the Purest Mountain Streams in the Country Old Eeservoir Out of Use Until It Can Be Cemented. A short time ago the water of lh- city mains was rather murky and had j a peculiar taste. This led to considerable consid-erable speculation as to the cause. , Some 6a w all sorts of things in tho oottom of the old reservoir and the wate mains draining the drego. Such I ideas even reached the columns of J some of the newspapers and there was much ado about it. I Superintendent Kircher stated this j morning that he desires the people of Ogden to understand the exact statu? of affairs regarding the water supply. I He says the old reservoir was com- pUtely drained something over two v. eeks ago and that since that time Ihe water for the city has been taken tak-en from the new reservoir, which is cemented on all sides, and on th 1 ottom, there being no cleaner receptacle re-ceptacle for water In the world. ThU ifservolr now contains 9,000.000 gallons gal-lons of pure water, 3,000,000 gallons mor.? than the old reservoir ever did. rr could possibly hold. The water supply is considered ample for all Purposes. There Is not a drop of water coming from the old reservoi'.-which reservoi'.-which Is almost dry enough to begin the work of removing the earth on ir.e floor, preparatory to cementing, which will likely be done this fall. A short time ago there was a waterspout water-spout in Wheeler canyon, from whence water for the waterworks system is I elng drawn. This caused a slight discoloring of tho water for a few i'ours, but the canyon stream Is so 'tee from any form of contamination that the water coming into the system sys-tem is not polluted in the least. This discoloring of the water, savs Mr. Kircher, is what caused the scan? among the people. In making the connection between the regular water main leading to tha old reservoir and the new basin, a number of feet of wood pipe, 20 lnche? In diarnefer, had to be used, and. it being comparatively new lumber, the w-oter passing through It for the first lew hours absorbed a slight lumber odor. This was the "taste" In the vater that caused many people o conjecture as to what kind of foreign mutter was in the water. It was simply sim-ply a little pure pine tincture thar. caused the alarm. The superintendent stales that the v.ater used in the city system today i taken from the Wheeler canyon F.ream, Coldwater canyon and Warm j Springs canyon, the Uiree sources of t npply beiug the purest, according to chemical tests, of auy water syslein in the world. There is not a drop of water being ! turned Into the system from the mair. J channel of the Ogden river, and it will not be necessary to take any from that source. There Is plenty j of water in the new reservoir for tho I purposes of the city and. now that the dry season U practically over, j the supply will in cease, rather than diminish. It is anticipated that tho old reservoir will be cemented this fall and that the city will then have 20,000,000 gallons of as good water as ever passed through a water main. The new reservoir holds 13.000.oun gallons and the old one. when re-niodelel. re-niodelel. will hold T.noo.000 gallons. |