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Show 96 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT The Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City The occasion and necessity for the organization of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City, its immediate and continuing objects and purposes, the expectations and hopes of those responsible for its creation, and somewhat of its accomplishments, we have already related in some detail. The Act under which it functions we have outlined at length beginning at page 44. Something additional of that, as affecting a particular relationship, that with the municipal corporation of Salt Lake City, we shall give hereafter. Now somewhat more of detail of the past and something also of the future. PAST ACTIVITIES Meetings of Board The District's Board of Directors has held 159 formal board meetings, in addition to more than 100 committee meetings and innumerable individual conferences. Projects Examined It has minutely examined twelve major water supply proposals, exclusive of the Provo River Project, each of which was highly technical and demanded patient and careful study and analysis. Among those given exhaustive study by the board are the Argenta project: Big Cottonwood Canyon; Beaver Pond and Dimple Dell projects: Silver King; Little Cottonwood; Big Cottonwood- Little Cottonwood interlocking canal and reservoir project; ground- water and pump well program; Parley's Canyon reservoir enlargement project, and all projects of the 1929 water investigation board. Reports Received and Studied It has received and studied a total of 222 engineering, legal and similar technical reports, of which 88 were written documents of varying length with maps and charts, etc., and 134 of which were given orally by various water experts, project officials and other authorities. Contracts It has executed, either directly or indirectly, or it has studied and passed upon, nearly a score of important contracts pertaining to projects and surveys or other phases of the District's work. Aid to Provo River Project In the interest of developing all possible water supplies the board has made, purchased or otherwise acquired numerous filings for- the use of water in and out of this valley. Some of these have been transferred or amended to help further the Provo River Project; others are designed to help increase the available community supply of water and to permit greater flexibility of distribution. |