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Show 98 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT Independent Survey, Election and Financing Accomplishments It is of interest to note that the District's Board of Directors arranged for the first independent outside survey of Salt Lake City water resources ever made ( the Alvord, Burdick & Howson study of 1936); that it broke all precedent by financing the Aqueduct on terms of 40 years of repayment without interest, a financing basis never before granted to any public agency; and smashed all voting records for special elections in Salt Lake City history when its Deer Creek and Aqueduct proposals were indorsed by the taxpayers on November 23, 1937 by a vote of more than 22 to 1. Has Participated in all Association Work and Activity In addition, see the enumerations under the heading " Past Work" of the Provo River Water Users Association, beginning at page 82, for, though not directly responsible for these, the interest of the District is such that all of them directly and vitally affected it and all of them have therefore received the closest scrutiny of the District's Board of Directors. Their direct and indirect participation in all of them is very clearly manifested by the District- Association relationship outlined by the chart preceding page 41, which for convenience of reference is reproduced on the opposite page. Future Activities This classification necessarily begins where the next preceding one ends, from the past activities of the Association to those yet to come, for just as every aspect of its business has been the business of the District, so its future problems and work are those of its largest stockholders. ( See page 87.) CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DISTRICT- ASSOCIATION RELATIONSHIP The causes and effects of the Association- District relationship were stated generally in a report of May 20, 1940 made by the District's Attorney and Engineer which, the matter being of such importance, it seems worth while to repeat. General District Objects " The purpose of the District's organization was the acquisition for this community of a water supply which would surely and safely meet its requirements for many years to come- a water supply of a quality and quantity sufficient, including that already available, for the needs of a metropolitan area with a population of approximately 350,000. Complicated Problem " If there had been water available to that area of such quality and in such quantity that acquisitions of water might have been made progressively, in installments as increases in population and the requirements of industry and business accrued, or if the future of this city had been regarded with such pessimism that none, or acquisitions comparatively trifling, had been thought essential, then many of the problems with which you are now confronted would never have arisen. But there was no water supply which could |
