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Show pardize the City's solvency. The new plant will handle 1,500,000 gallons per day. Current Park City flows are 600,000 to 800,000 gpd, with Park West, Summit Park and others adding 80,000 when they connect. This leaves capacity for an additional 620,000 gallons, or about 2,060 connections. It would be foolish for any government agency to. build plant capacity to serve all recorded lots, as if they were all going to be built upon next month. Instead, responsible respon-sible agencies incur no more public debt than warranted by realistic building projections. projec-tions. The new plant is designed so that its capacity can be doubled at the present site to serve an additional 5,000 units when needed. It would be ludicrous ludi-crous to build that capacity now, paying interest on the debt while the capacity remained unused. If these candidates insist upon wasting wast-ing money, let them buy ten new police cars and hire ten patrolmen to protect the approved future population. It would be a less costly mistake. Sincerely, . Bruce C. Decker District Manager Snyderville Basin SID Sewer Facts Disheveled Dear Editor: Certain City Council candir dates have stated that the capacity of the new Snyderville Snyder-ville Basin Sewage Treatment Treat-ment Plant has been exceeded exceed-ed even before the plant is completed. Jt is disturbing to imagine electing candidates who are: 1) so gullable they not only believe but repeat inflammatory inflamma-tory rhetoric without checking check-ing the facts, or 2) so naive about public finance their official mistakes could ieo- t t s y, |