The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
City Engineer McGonagIe to
Present Estimate to City
Council.
MEANS MUCH TO PEOPLE
ON NORTHEAST BENCH
Cost, 1t Is Estimated, viii Be
in the NeighborhoOd of
1880

City Engineer George f. McGonagle
tonight will present plans. with an es'
innate of cost. to the city council for
the building of an cighteen-inch water
main from a point one and one-half
miles above the present highIne intake
to Thirteenth avenue and j street,
While this main is intended to feed
the northeast bench, it will materially
help the situation all over the city
Tho present twelveinch main, which
feeds this section of the city, will be
utilized then To supply Capitol hill and
adjacent territory, and as the system
is an intercommunicating one the new
line will materially increase the water
supply throughout the rest of the city.
BY reason of the increase In height
Of the source Of the supply the new
main VIII enter the city at Thirteenth
avenue and j street with a pressure of
eighty pounds. The pressure of the
present twolveinch main is only eight
pounds. In addition to supplying that
part of the city east of State street, II
that thoroughfare extended to the city
limits on the north, ana north Of Brig
ham street, the now line may be used
in cases of emergency TO help furnish
the city with water three or four blocks
south of Brigham street, This Will re-
llevc the Emigration and Parley's can
yon lines to great extent.
Will Cost s135,ooo
The length of the new line, which
Will be Of cast iron, will be approx
mately 10000 feet, or close to four
miles. The cost will be in the neigh
borhood Of $l35,000, and will be paid
out of the water bond fund. lnasmuch
as there is approximately 100000 IN
this fund, there Will be plenty TO build
the line, with some TO spare. Recently
$65,000 was appropriately out Of this
fund for water mains under the head of
emergency work, but only about $l5 900
was used, leaving $50, 900 to be returned
to the fund
When the council receives the city
engineers estimate of cost and plans
tonight Mr.. Mulvey, chairman of the
waterworks committee, will move that
the board of public works be instructed
to call for bids. The intention is to
award the contract and get all the pipe
and fittings on the ground this fall and
The line should be got ready in time to
obviate the usual summer water short
age.
To Abate Nuisance.
Some action will be taken tonight
looking to the early abatement of the
Ninth South street canal nuisance, of
which residents of the southwestern
part of the city are bitterly complain
ing. Eventually concrete conduit will
be built over the canal from State
street to the Jordan river, but it is
doubtful if this can be done this year,
inasmuch as such step would cost any
where from sos 900 to 100000.
The protestants want wooden flume,
four by six feet IN dimensions, con-
structed over the canal from State
street to the Jordan river. but this
would necessitate the widening of the
Tenth South street canal to something
like twenty feet to take care of the
surplus waters In the spring, and 1t is
doubtful if this will be done. Another
drawback to this scheme would be that
inasmuch as the middle Of Tenth South
street is the boundary line between the
city and the county and the Tenth
South canal is all on the city side, most
of the street on the city's side would
be taken up.