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Show Sprinkling Curtailed In City; Water Free I Conileniindfian i Three-Hour Turns, 6 to 9 p.m. Daily Set Oy City Council CEiion'nator System Is In Operation At a special meeting of the Roosevelt City Council neld Monda; night one very important conclusion was reached, and an announce" ment was made by U. S. and Utah Department of Health officials. According to Mayor Murphy the council voted to curtail water us for the remainder of the season and announced the plan which wil be followed. He also reported that health officials stated the presen supply of culinary water coming into Roosevelt's system was free o contamination. Effective Aug! 3, Friday, lawn sprinkling will be iimitod to thre hours a day. Those living in even-, numbered residences are authorized author-ized to use water between 6 and 9 p.m. on the even days of the calendar month. Citizens living in odd-numbered residences will water wa-ter during the same hours on odd days of the month. Boundaries Defined Roosevelt City residents should keep in mind how the streets are numbered State street, which runs between north and south past the LDS chapel, and Lagoon street are the dividing boundaries, and all homes East of State and North . of Lagoon and those West of State and South of Lagoon will, find' their 'houses end in even numbers. They will sprinkle on even-numbered days. Houses situated East of State and South of Lagoon and West of State and North of Lagoon will do their sprinklink on odd days of the week. Their houses will end with odd numbers. It is hoped that this curtailment curtail-ment will enable the city to completely discontinue the use of stream water in its culinary system. Drilled New Wells In 1950 the city bonded' for $225,00 to drill wells and install a completely new culinary system sys-tem to replace its old inadequate supply. At the time it was thought (Continued On Back Page) ROOSEVELT CITY WATER (Continued From Page 1) the wells would furnish sufficient water for a town of twice Roosevelt's Roose-velt's population. However, a sandy formation in the area where the wells were drilled has hampered hamp-ered water production, and the wells at present are pumping only about 500,000 gallons a ay. The city's water consumption during the summer growing season averages about 1,000,000 gallons daily. The difference has been made up with stream water from Indian Bench. In a further effort to meet its crisis, city officals have authorized author-ized the cleaning and gravel packing pack-ing of a test well in an endeavor to alleveiate the sandin-off of pumps which occurs when wells are producing at full capacity. If the experiment is successful, all wells will be so treated. By this method it is hoped production from each well can be increased sufficiently that the four wells now on pump can be made to produce the required 1,000,000 gallons needed daily.. To Study Problem In the meantime Win Temple-ton, Temple-ton, of Templeton and Lioke, engineering en-gineering firm of Salt Lake City, has been retained to make a study of the city's water problem with a view to determining locations for additional weels or springs, if they are found to be needed. Free Of Contamination All water supplies coming into the city are now free of con-tamination,, con-tamination,, according to reports from federal and state Department Depart-ment of Health officials. An emergency chlorinator is in operation op-eration and arrangements are being made for a permanent chlorinating installation. 1 In attendance at the special meeting Monday night were Dr. Fred J. Payne, who has directed a study in this area for the U. S. Department of Health; Dr. J. P. Kessler, Cliff Stutz. and Ariel Michie of the Utah State Board of Health, and Mr. Templeton, who has served as city engineer during dur-ing the past" street improvement project. |