Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-30
WATER FOR THE DRY BENCHERs.
Supt. Ottinger,s Plan to Settle the
Cries of Dry and Discontinued
Citizens.

Superintendent Ottinger has at las
matured a plan for furnishing the dr.
bench people with water without in
fringing on the rights and privileges c
/ the residents of the lower wards. He ha
also provided means-so far as feast
BILE plan goes-by which, at the sam
time, the Fire department service will b
materially improved. These plans ant
specifications will be submitted by tn
Committee on Waterworks to the Cit.
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 pail
of mammoth reservoirs, with capacity
of 10000 gallons each. This will give
to the pipe water at the intersections near
the Eagle gate a pressure of Sc pounds
instead of the present so pounds. This
in itself will make it easily practicable to
pipe 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,
Twentieth and Twenty-irst wards. The
most important good to be accomplished,
however, is in the construction of So
foot tower or stand pipe, from which
the whole of the north bench can be sup
piled with water for culinary purposes. 1t
has been ascertained that the base of
this proposed reservoir is on a perfect
level with the ball on the Eighteenth
ward chapel on Prospect Hill, and with
the pressure that can be concentrated in
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 capacity of $500
gallons, and will be supplied by fume
in the already constructed canal which
taps the creek half mile further I'D the
stream.
From this system it is proposed to fur
nish all residents north of Fifth street, at
which line the capacity of the two reser-
yoirs ceases to extend. By this acqui-
'ition the Fire department will also re-
,eive desirable benefit, in that there
will be a pressure of 125 pounds in the
business centre of town, which is almost
'qual to the force supplied by the engine
low in the possession of the department.
With these facilities Chief Engineer
)ttinger expects to be able to
over the necessities for the Fire
apartment with much greater conven-
ence and incomparably less expense
han by the adoption of score Of fire
ngines. OF course, the greatest benefit
I'LL accrue to the residents of the upper
ards, and this, too, without the slight
st impairment to the present privileges
} others.
MIR. Ottinger estimates that at the pres
Mt time there are not less than Is 600, 900
allons of water conveyed through City
reek every twenty-four hours, and with
he proposed reservoir system the great
IT possible economy can be practiced.
he present reservoirs, mile lower
own, have capacity, the three of them, {
only 103,350 gallons, while the two
opposed new ones would contain 26O 900 {
lllons, saying nothing of the stand pipe. {
One OF the most pleasing features i
oout the entire proposition is that the {
tai expense of constructing the reser- I
'lrs, fumes, etc., and furnishing and i
ylng the necessary pipes can easily by
'pt within 100000, and may fall far
ort of that figure with care. Mr.. Of
lger has been devoting much of his
ne to scientific investigation of the
an. and during recent trip East con-
lied the most eminent engineers.
ON one of these gentlemen he OBJ
ned knowledge Of the practicahility n
constructing a stop valve for regulat- II
the supplies, and especially for pre- s.
ntlng breakage of pipes by unusual a
assure. The superintendent is de- a
hted with the plan, and is confident II
1t it is both the most feasible and a
'nomic one that can be devised. al
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