The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
ENGINEER KELSEYS REPORT
COUNCIL COMMITTEE TO RECON-
MEND EXPENDITURE
Of SIT, 300 to Go For the Betterment
of System No. 2-The Pleasant
View. Ditch Matter Considered.

The committee on waterworks met
last night, and after a thorough discus
sion of City Engineer Kelsey'a report
on proposed improvements in the water
system, decided to recommend an ex-
penditure of $4,000 for the betterment
of system No. 2, which is in the east
ern part of the city. The entire COM
mittee recognizes the sDpndness of the
city engineers recommendations, and
the necessity for general improvement
of the entire system, but owing to the
city's financial condition no relief is to
be had.
The improvement now recommended
| is the one most needed, and as described
in the engineers report, provides for
putting in a SiXteeG-inch wood stave
pipe on Fifth South street from the
Parley's canyon conduit west to
Twelfth East street, for supplying sys-
tenn No. 2. This system is now supplied
through an eight-inch main from the
conduit relief tank running west on
ming south from this main are four
inch pipes, and when there is a heavy
draft ON the system the pressure is
very low. This siXteen-inch pipe will
be- connected temporarily with the con-
duit, and later with the distributing res
erVOirS to be constructed on the reser-
vation, as provided for in the revised
plan of the distribution system, now
being prepared. The pressure on this
pipe will be due to a minimum head of
ten feer, and a maximum head of 15C
feet at Twelfth East street.
The main supplying system No. (the
lower SYSTEM from the Thirteenth
East street reservoir west ON First
South street, is reduced from thirty
inches to twenty-four inches, twenty
inches, eighteen inches and finally six
teen inches at Eighth East street
There are no connecting mains between
these points, and no apparent reason
for reducing the size of the pipe. This
plan provides for a twelve-inch main
running south on the west side OF
Eighth East street from First South TIC
Sixth South streets The twelve-inch
main will connect with the First South
street main at the point where the size
is reduced from eighteen inches to six
teen inches, and connect with the six
inch laterals running west on Second
Third Fourth, Fifth and Sixth South
streets. There are no mains in this
part of the city, except the First South
street main, and the lateraIs are four
and six-inch pipes. In nearly every case
the larger pipes are supplied through
viders for doing away Rith twenty-five
dead ends in the system in this part of
the city by changing the boundary CT
the district and filing in the gaps in
the present laterals
The matter of completing the reser-
voir at Thirteenth East and First South
atretSt was also discussed. This i'm
provement is a necessity for the proper
distribution of water, but the expense
would be something like S2S, 0O0 includ-
ing connections. and that is a. big sum
for the city with the present debt hang
ing over it.
1t is likely that all of the engineers
report will be submitted to the council
in committee of the whole at an early
date.
The committee on irrigation also met
and considered the Pleasant View ditch
matter without coming to any definite
understanding.