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Show WATER FOR THE DRY BENCHERS. Snpt. Ottlnffer's Plan to Settle the Cries of Dry and Discontented : Citizens. - Superintendent Ottinger has at last matured a plan for furnishing the dry bench people with water without infringing in-fringing on the rights and privileges of the residents of the lower wards. He has also provided a means so far as a feasible feasi-ble plan goes by which, at the same time, the Fire department service will be materially improved. These plans and specifications will be submitted by the Committee on Waterworks to the City Council this evening, and there is little doubt but they will meet with unanimous approval. The project in brief is to convert the large brick building which was erected just above the . old site of the. Empire mill for electric light works, into a pair of mammoth reservoirs, with a capacity of 130,000 gallons each. This will give to the pipe water at the intersections near the Eagle gate a pressure of 86 pounds instead of the present 50 pounds. This in itself will make it easily practicable to pipe a large supply along the side hill of the Eighteenth ward, taking in the locality around "Blue Blood Avenue" and an immense area of the Eighteenth, 1 Twentieth and Twenty-first wards. The most important good to be accomplished, however, is in the construction of a 50- foot tower or stand pipe, from which i the whole of the north bench can be sup- 1 plied with water for culinary purposes. It i has been ascertained that the base of this proposed reservoir is on a" perfect ' level with the ball' on the Eighteenth svard chapel on Prospect Hill, and with 1 ihe pressure that can be concentrated in i the stand pipe the water may easily be distributed over the greatest altitude of the resident portion of the bench. This stand pipe will have a capacity of 3,500 gallons, and will be supplied by a flume in the already constructed canal which taps the creek a half mile further up the stream. From this system it is proposed to furnish fur-nish all residents north of Fifth street, at which line the capacity of the two reservoirs reser-voirs ceases to extend. By this acquisition acqui-sition the Fire department will also receive re-ceive a desirable benefit, in that there will be a pressure of 125 pounds in the business centre of town, which is almost equal to the force supplied by the engine now in the possession of the department. With these, facilities Chief Engineer Ottinger expects to be ' able to cover the. necessities for the Fire department with much greater convenience conven-ience and incomparably ' less exoense than by the adoption of a score of fire engines. Of course, the greatest benefit will accrue to the residents of the upper wards, and this', too, without the slightest slight-est impairment to the present privileges toothers. Mr. Ottinger estimates that at the present pres-ent time there are not less than 13,000,000 gallons of water conveyed through City Creek every twenty-four hours, and with the proposed reservoir system the greatest great-est possible economy can be practiced. The present reservoirs, a mile lower down, have a capacity, the three of them, of only 103,350 gallons, while the two proposed new ones would contain 260,000 gallons, saying nothing of the stand pipe. One of the most pleasing features about the entire proposition is that the total expense of constructing the reservoirs, reser-voirs, flumes, etc., and furnishing and laying the necessary pipes can easily by kept within $100,000, and may fall far short of that figure with care. Mr. Ottinger Ot-tinger has been devoting much of his time to a scientific . investigation of the plan, and during a recent trip East consulted con-sulted the most eminent engineers. From one of - these gentlemen he : obtained ob-tained a knowledge of the practicability of constructing a stop valve for regulating regulat-ing the supplies, and especially for preventing pre-venting a breakage of pipes by unusual pressure. The superintendent is delighted de-lighted with the plan, and is confident that it is both the most feasible and economic one that can be devised. |