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Show Engineer's Letter Explains Water Project To Be Considered In Bond Election On August 21St EDITOR'S NOTE: Following i a letter addressed to Mayor Homer P. Edwards and the city couucil from Caldwell-Richards and Sorensen, engineering firm, of Salt Lake City, which has been retained to study the water , project. The letter explains fully the potential supply of water that will be made available if the City of Roosevelt votes in 21. favor of a bond issue on Augr. 21. July 23, 1951 Gentlemen: This letter is written in response re-sponse to your request for a statement by us explaining the Water Delevopment Program as we have recommended. Experience of the Past For many years, this has been a paramount question with your citizens. They have realized that there is an abundance of water in the country as far as the domestic do-mestic use is concerned, but that the clear mountain streams and springs which are suitable by direct diversion therefrom are so far away that it is impracticable imprac-ticable to extend pipe lines to them. -" The sources that have been used in the past and are being used at present, are irrigation water from open ditches and artesian wells, the former being close at hand and the latter being be-ing several miles west of the City. These wells have been drilled from time to time, In order to decrease as much as possible the necessary use of irrigation water. Many wells have been drilled for this purpose, but being in a solid sandstone formation, for-mation, the flow for each well has been comparatively small, and yet these wells have rendered rend-ered a valuable service for several sev-eral years past. Three or four years ago, deep well pumps were installed in two of the larger wells and the supply from the artesian area was mateially m-! m-! creased. This pumping operation was adopted as a temporary relief, re-lief, and on account of the fact that the pipe line from the wells i to the reservoir had already deteriorated de-teriorated to the point where it would not stand the necessary .pressure, it was also essential I that a booster pump be installed in the line. , I From the foregoing, it is I evident that the water from the present wells is being pumped twice and is conveyed through about three miles of pipe that is fast becoming worthies- and will have to be replaced if the present wells are to be used permanently. The only possible way for th irrigation water to be made suitable suit-able for use in the culinary system sys-tem and to serve as a supDle-mentarv supDle-mentarv supply to the nresent wells, is that it be put through an expensive treatment and filtration fil-tration plant. A serious objection to continuing continu-ing the use of these supplies is that the present reservoirs are inadequate, very undesirable and have less than two-thirds the necessary elevation above the city to provide the prooer water pressure in the mains. Present Water Program For many years, your city officials of-ficials have realized these conditions, con-ditions, and five years ago engaged en-gaged us to make an investigation, investiga-tion, report to the City our findings, and to recommend a program to follow in obtaining a future water suoplpy. These investigations were carried car-ried on over a neriod of manv months and involved a study of sources from ten to thirty mile? away in northerly, northwesterly, northwest-erly, southwesterly, easterly, and northeasterly directions, to canals, ca-nals, rivers, springs and wells. We concluded that the largest and best practical source of sup-nlv sup-nlv is in a northeasterly direction, direc-tion, where the Uintah and Whiterocks rivers have formed a great body of under-ground water at a reasonable depth below be-low the surface, and where springs exist, and all water sources are at sufficient elevation eleva-tion above the City to flow by gravity from the present ground surface into a reservoir near Roosevelt to provide ideal pressure pres-sure conditions in the mains. Abundance of Good Water Three 12 inch wells have been drilled into the underground under-ground source, and sufficient ! water has been found in these i wells to prove the desirable' quality and unlimited supply as far as Roosevelt's future needs are concerned. Lonj Supply Lines Needed Approximately eight miles of pipe lines will be required, and a covered reservoir on top of the bench north of the City will serve to store the water as it' flows in a rnnTs " through the pi ke it avai eV.a;-large eV.a;-large quantities I na the City under nn 'equ treme conditions ?: Realizing that tW USe' ' -muted future wa k the : City avaliablellu, under-ground source T H' tion to the State E'byat fice. and that saiH gn ' not require pumLale' as far as the p& we feel that the : cide that this 1 time to make thk Ptr'.' improvement "nuor- CaldwTad? |