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Show 18 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT under the Upper Canal Company agreement during the irrigation season of that year, and delivered to the Company an adequate culinary supply and, for irrigation, a very great deal more than the company's pre- exchange right, and yet was compelled to pay damages for failure to deliver the contract quantity. In addition to the irrigation supply accruing to the users under these ditches, they reserve an ample domestic supply and under the contracts the City was required to and did construct modern distribution systems which it is obliged to maintain forever. During the time from 1921 to 1931 other exchange contracts were entered into with other water users from Big Cottonwood Creek and from Mill Creek and Little Cottonwood but some of those on Big Cottonwood have not yet been found practicable of operation, nor, except rarely, have those on Mill Creek. Most of the city's rights on Little Cottonwood have been exercised since the construction of the Little 30. City Creek Canyon reservior, shortly after an important role in supplying the community Cottonwood conduit during 1931 and 1932. Whether the exchanges, except as emergency measures have been worth while, economically and socially justifiable, is a matter in regard to which there may be reasonable difference. In at least one instance the disproportion between what the City receives and gives out, and must perpetually give out, is so great as to mark the trade as bad business from almost every point of view. In other instances there is practical equality and in still others the disparity between benefits and burdens is frequently great and obvious and frequently neither. But in all cases the obligations of the City are perpetual. It must deliver a large quantity of water every year, with liability for deficiencies whether due to its fault or not, and regardless of what it receives. The practical effect is that the performance of its obligations is most difficult and onerous during those years during which it receives the least. It must perpetually incur a large expense in pumping costs and for the mainte- completion in 1915. This reservoir still plays th drinking water. S. L. C. Eng. Dept. |