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Show 5 and exercise of other sanitary measures, thereby eliminating 1,208,612 gallons* City owned water in Little Cottonwood is not available because of lack of facilities for " bringing it into the city, reducing the Blip ply another 8,473,215 gallons. fo make Little Cottonwood water available for city use, a conduit to Big Cottonwood probably will be necessary* The average daily flow of the streams in July is nearly one- third greater than the average daily flow for the year, which, if there is efficient distribution, should leave little cause for a shortage in that month with the present population. But the August figures assume a more sinister aspect, for the aggregate daily average is about one- third below the daily average for the year. But after making allowances for these items, the city's rights in the streams available during August should • aggregate about 45,000,000 gallons per day. Practically every day in the year some of the stream flow goes to waste because of lack of storage facilities. The city has built small tanks and reservoirs for equalizing and distributing purposes with an aggregate storage capacity of 34,011,000 gallons, or about one day's supply for present population during the summer* In addition, it has constructed three storage reservoirs, with an aggregate capacity of 1,692,000 gallons, or about enough to care for the city's needs for fifty day a during the summer. The reservoir capacities, according to the city engineers report, are: |