The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-01
Superintendent of WaterwOrks
Holds Time at Hand for
Stringent Measures.
SOURCES OF THE SUPPLY
LOWEST in MANY YEARS
Citizens Who Waste Water
Will BE Promptly and Wig
OrOusIy Prosecuted.

Following conference with Mayor
John S. Bransford Thursday morning. II
was announced by city WaterWorks
Superintendent Thomas HOLIDAY tha'
stringent measures will now be used to
put a stop to the wanton waste OF water
In this city Owing 10 the long dry sea-
son, and the fact that q. the present
time the water in the various streams
from which the city supply Is derived Is
lower than it has been for fifteen years
past. the situation is becoming serious,
and persons who insist upon neruiesS
waste OF water Will now have Their sup
ply turned Off
The waste of water must stop at any
price. and twenty five shut-ofi men were
employed by the city Thursday TO patroi
the city and shut Off the water where
ever II is being wasted. Persons will be
required To conform strictly to the
sprlnkllng laws. and any persons ,iouhd
sprinkling out OF the allotted time VIII
Immediately be made To repent by having
the water shut off.
sprinkling Regulations.
Sprinkling hours for residents on the
west side OF Third East are from 4 to II
a. m, and on the east side from To
p m Residents are allowed thirty min
utes for every loo square fect or lawn.
all OF the water which is necessary for 1t.
Cases have been called To the attention
OF the waterworks department. however;
where residents take the nozzle off the
hose so that it will make no noise and
then leave the water running through
out the night. Superintendent HOLIDAY
is now determined that this sort f.Eame
must stop. and the patrolmcn. wqll go
over the entire city constantly and
where such conditions exist the water
will be turned off. Also. {, will cost
on again. together with a fine for wasting
the water In violation OF law, II con-
victcd
Mr.. HOLIDAY said Thursday morning
or at the present time than they have
been for the last fifteen years, As an
example. the city Is entitled TO thirty
cubic feet per second from Big Cotton.
the present time 1t can secure but thir-
teen and half cubic feet per second
Other streams about the city are equally
low. md as a result the pressure becomes
low after the reserve supply In the res
ervoirs is used up
Cause of Low Pressure.
At the time of the c. r. Savage fire
Wednesday night the Thirteenth East
reservoir was practically empty, but this
was not the fault OF the city, but the
the reserve supply and they and the city
were directly responsible for the short '
age when the fire broke out. at which
time the pressure at the waterworks Of
flee in the city and county building was
fifty pounds. Immediately after the
alarm. however. all three systems were
diverted into the downtown district.
Superintendent HOLIDAY says that II is
impossible to hold the fire pressure Up
TO eighty or ninety pounds with the peo-
pie wasting water as has been character
istic of them In Salt Lake city.
The waterworks office has cndeavored
to bear with the people as much as pos
sible and be lenient, except where fla
grant waste occurred But the residents
have, it is asserted, taken advantage OF
this and continued to waste the water.
and now every user found wasting water
will Immediately have 1t shut of.