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Show Foreword During the year 1935 the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City by ordinance declared that " the public convenience and necessity required the incorporation of a Metropolitan Water District." In that declaration the electors of the City concurred, and. in response to the expression of that concurrence at the polls, the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City came into being, and has since functioned upon the background, with the powers and obligations, associations and accomplishments, and it has met and overcome the difficulties, and has yet before it the problems- all of which we have outlined in this report to its Board of Directors, to the Board of Commissioners, and to the people of Salt Lake City, to whom both are answerable. It is only when viewed upon that background that any of these can be appreciated or understood or that the significance of any of them can be estimated. The Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City was created at the will of the people, and, at their direction and for their sole benefit, it has embarked upon a public enterprise of a magnitude and of an importance to them beyond anything ever before undertaken in Utah. Concerning every aspect of this, the public is entitled to be fully informed. It is for that reason that the publication of this report has been thought not only worth while bu t as something obliged. Most of it is mere matter of fact, an outline history, but even the conclusions, the expressions of opinion, while the writer alone is responsible for them, follow inevitably. It is hoped that this report will be both valuable and interesting. If it is either, then grateful acknowledgment must be made to Mr. Hampton C. Godbe, Executive Secretary of the District, for substantial and indispensable assistance in its preparation; and to W. D. Beers, City Engineer, and W. A. Knight of the City Engineer's staff. FISHER HARRIS Counsel and Manager Salt Lake City January 2, 1942. |
