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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT 103 gallons per day, or 500,000 acre feet per year, is now engaged in an expenditure of $ 219,000,000 to double the water supply for the future Los Angeles district through a 242 mile conduit from the Colorado River. " Unless the City of Salt Lake adopts a long range supply program, its opportunities for the future are quite limited and it is likely to surrender supremacy in the mid- mountain region." His recommendations for Salt Lake City and some of the considerations upon which it was founded appears from the following: " As a basis for providing an adequate water supply for the City a special study has been made by Ralf R. Woolley of Salt Lake City, who is especially well informed upon population trends in Utah and the Rocky Mountain region. He has presented two forecasts for the present area of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, namely, the minimum prediction and that he regards as a well justified maximum prediction, assuming an adequate future water supply for the city. " It is the history of practically all cities that as they grow, adjacent territory is annexed or served with water. It seems to us probable that the greater part of the population in Salt Lake County lying east of the Jordan River, will be served by Salt Lake City within the next fifty years. " Upon this basis, we show the accompanying diagram ( see page 104), our forecast of about 270,000 population to be served by the year 1980. In making this forecast, it must be appreciated that predictions of this kind related to time are essentially uncertain. We feel confident, however, that the future water supply of Salt Lake should be based upon a growth not less than this." W. D. Beers- A. B. Larson Report During October of 1937 W. D. Beers, City Engineer, and his Assistant City Engineer A. B. Larson published a report entitled, " What Forty- four Per Cent of the Deer Creek Water Supply Will Do for Salt Lake City." Their conclusions were stated as follows: " It will increase the present water rights of the City, if properly handled, to such an extent that it will not be necessary for the City to purchase any further rights for culinary or irrigation use until the development of the City has progressed to a point where 70,000 acre feet annually will be required for culinary purposes, or to a point where the population shall have increased to approximately 315,000. ". . . It will eliminate not only the inconvenience, but the damage caused by water shortages, and prevent advertising to the country that Salt Lake City has an inadequate water supply. " Participation in the Deer Creek Project by Salt Lake City will advertise to the country that the City has a plentiful water supply and that is the most important asset than any City can have, as no important industry is going to establish itself in a City where the water supply is insufficient." |
