The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-10-01

stands ready to assist the Town Council, or any other government body, in any engineering matter they have before them. I regret that in this case the time before the hearing is so short that we cannot have this matter carefully investigated in time to be of any benefit, but | submit here with, informally, the opinions of the members of the Executive Committee of the Chapter, which I trust will be of assistance to the Council in decid- ing on their course of action. I might say that the following members con- cur in this opinion: :-Messers. N. D. Lindsley, Arthur Crowfoot, J. Owen Ambler, L. M. Banks, and myself MT. Beck who is also a member, has not been consulted because of lis ab- sence from the district, and Mr Davis has felt that his position as Manager for the Water Company disqualified him from acting in this case. It might be well to mention the fact that the members who have consid- cred this question are not customers of the Clifton Water and Improve ment Company, and therefore have no pecuniary interest in water rates charged.
 The first application-Dock 1166- E-73 is a request for the installation of water meters at the expense of the Water Company. It is the gener- ally accepted policy in all enlighten- ed communities to meter all water services as rapidly as financial consf- derations will permit, and it has been the universal experience that the \ @f the installation of meters and charg ing for rate on meter basis, has been considerably decreased without any injurious effects as regards health and sanitation. We therefore recon. of the issuance of order, as requested by this docket.
 Application-Docket No. 1172-E-76 re- quests fD the approval of new meter rates; f(2) the discontinuance of flat rates for each service as soon as me- ter is installed: and (3) the approv- al of rules and regulations made necessary by rhe ii- met.ipl :"t charging for water supplied. We un- derstand that. the rates which have been previously approved by the Cor poration Commission, and now in eff feet, are as follows:
 Meter Rates For Gallons Per Month
 1000 gallors, or less LOO Minimum
 1001 to 5000 gals .... TO per M gals
 3OO1 to 15000 gals . 30 per M Gals. 7150O; to 3O00O gals. 40 per M gals.
 3G001 to 750O0 gals .. 30 per M gals.
 75001 to, 100000 gals .25 per M gals 100000 gallons up :. 1872 per M gals
 Flat Rates
 tan,;Iu i on nor oonth Bath ..65 per month 1 Toilet -. ...65 per month lawn .I.. 1 70 per month
 tLawn rate charged ' months each year if water is used for sprinkling.)
 As matter Of fact, nearly all re- sidence service is supplied under the flat rates. Some few services of the larger consumers are metered, as flat rates do not apply satisfactorily The only cnanee in rates called for ';y the new application is in the first .wo meter rates quoted above, which would, under the new petition. read as follows:-1e00 gals, less,i per month, $1.90: 1901 to 5000 gals. s1.50 per M gal. The balance of the meter schedule $ unchanged.
 In their application, the company makes the following statement:
 2. Company submits that three thousand (3000) gallons of water per month is sufficient for the average consumer Tor domestic, lawn and de- corative garden purposes. The pre- sent flat rate for summer consump- .tiOn, including use for lawns. establ- ished by your Commission is $4.90 per month. Company has taken what it considers to be the requirements of the average consumer and fixed the meter charge for that consumption, viz, three thousand gallons per month at what is the present flat rae, $4.90 per month";
 From information given me by MT. Davis, it appears that the average number of persons per service, is five. Assuming this to be the. case, the capita consumption under proposed rate for cost of $4.90 per month would be only 20 gals per day. This is unquestionably too low for satas-. factory sanitary conditions. When it is considered, that, under the new sanitary ordinance of the Town of Clifton, each service will be required to have one toilet with flush tank capacity of 5 gallons, which will un- doubtediy be used three or more times per day per capita; that in this warm climate, each person as a gen eral thing will take one bath per day, using for each bath 15 to 20 gallons, and that consumption for. other dom estic purposes and sprinkling will be a considerable item, it is easy to see that a per capita consumption of 40 tc 50 gallons per day is mipimum for satisfactory sanitary conditions. The average service, it would thore- fore appear, will undoubtedly con sume considerably more than 5000 gallons which the present maximum rate of S1 SO would purchase under the proposed meter rates.
 In their application, the company StafaS-