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...LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL - g/31/49 I ley Populatio I $ 2 , 0 0 0 XJVQ-d The Las Vegas valle^to|wj |0, will have a p o p u M p f off between 80,000 and 82,000 persons! MjPhis was a statement made to i&u»Las Vegas chamber of com-ffl? rce yesterday, at El Ran ho K g a s , by Harry E. Miller, fSjairman of the Las Vegas SpUey water district. He in-fomned the membership that he quoting a portion of the ^preliminary survey made by the Engineering firm which, at the pifssent, is compiling a feasibility riejport for the district on the possibilities of bringing L a k e Mead water into the valley. . isMiller said that the engineering H i was exhausting every pos-silility for water needs in the ; f™ ie y and declared that the sur-f had been projected to the jr 2000. :""He told the chamber members l i p the engineers estimate that, H iH y/een now and 1970, the con- TBisipiption of water in the valley ^ ^ p ju ld more than double and that as -the consumption increases, th if limit of the well capacities bSIthe area would be reached. §|ij$he consumption is doubled, K iid, it would mean that there d be more than 80,000,000 ns of water per day used T j h is section. _jghere is no hope, Miller said HBfengineers had informed the i|l®rd, that the present or future & fiSisian wells could ever supply tSIs demand. H jjiMiller’s statements came in ^ln%t>ly to questions asked him £the open forum discussion d at the regular chamber Itteeting, and he predicted that la te r from Lake Mead would be in use in this section by Kgsi, “ if the schedule goes ac-cording to plan.” iffhe feasibility report being ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ gia red by the engineering will be completed by Oc­tober 1 and, by that time, the for the water system and approximate cost would be is H . I &W*president of the til P icn ic railroad, represente&tliej land and water company meeting and declared that already were being ta k ^ ^ ^ T make certain there would repetition of the water shoK ^e of the past summer. He said that water was|^H by the consumers still w aU H major problem and thatpf matter what steps were in the future, until the ‘fH _ sumers showed some co-opm |H _ tion, there would be dangelHHfl shortages. He said that the presenf||H pacity of the water companyjjj^H 16,500,000 gallons but that was­tage in the lower levelsfj^ B pulled the surplus out olnj^H higher level pipes and, as suit, there was a shortage. “ In the past summer,” BieflH said, “ there was no other ejfjusb; than that the reserve ranjwiiy: because consumers re fu s a »jo conserve.” si He said there Was a plaH clean out the wells, make neering surveys and enlargiHUe lines running to the hilher ground in the city. He alsowajd there was no danger of pollmipn of the water supply for LasH e-gas. „ im K Lloyd Compton, represe»iqg the power company, info^pH the members there was n d f l S mediate danger of a power sl| H 1 age but said there was no pjj^H j available to waste. He explained the complied set-up under which the sta Nevada, receives its power Boulder dam and said thal soon as A9 generator at the J is available; the situation be somewhat de-complicateB In closing, Miller in fo r m e * membership that the Las Vfgi valley water district would no control over the wells rently in use but, that as Lake Mead water was brtja available. |f in, the strain on the bigger Jfb said that the wafer board I j would be relieved and the sT conducted preliminary ne- ler wells undoubtedly woul S t a t io n s with the Las Vegas.| crease in flow. Lekd and Water company* re-1 At the next meeting, on ^ fa in g the present distribution! day, John Lytle, of the shefl^H Sittem and said that iLaBBga_red [j aero squadron, will explaiiy^^g essential that the this unit. OTm’s system be c<5nsolidalejd<]^ with whatever plan is made jp the delivery of wat^| from lake. R. A. Blonde, special assistant . . i j