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Los Angeles - July 21, 1950 80-5 Mr. A.M. Polger - Las Vegas: (cc: Mr. Wm. Reinhardt) Replying to your letter of July 19th to Mr. Reinhardt, eopy to me, relative to public meetings being held criticizing the sprinkling ordinance of the City of Las Vegas: I understand that the suggestion of dividing the city and having its people sprinkle their lawns on alternate days, is based on a similar ordinance in Reno, which apparently has worked out very satisfactorily. However, you must remember that the temperature in Reno is not as high as that in Las Vegas in spite of your Chamber of Commerce to the contrary and I sincerely doubt whether the Las Vegas lawns and plants could get by with sprinkling on alternate days, especially during such a hot spell as you experienced in the recent past. It is my understanding that we had completed the installation of additional pipe lines to affect circulatory systems in all districts which had theretofore been 11 dead-ended" and that we had had no complaints with respect to low pressure. Possibly some arrangement could be made to divide the eity and permit sprinkling in one-half thereof between 6 and 8 PM and the other between 7 and 9. This would cause over-lapping of one hour but possibly the people would get accustomed to sprinkling in the odd hour which did not over-lap and the pressure would not be so low during that one-hour period between 7 and 8 when the entire eity would be permitted to sprinkle their lawns. If, of course, you can sell the City Commissioners the idea of alternating days for sprinkling in different parts of the city, that would be satisfactory as far as I am concerned, but I doubt if it will be satisfactory to the people. I presume Mr. Reinhardt will give you his personal views on this matter. Bennett