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Mr. James Maxfleld BOOSTER PUMPIH6 STATIC® In the existing boaster station there are six pumping units each consisting of two ByrOn Jayson 10 x 14 x 2Q BVS pomps operating in series. Under present operating conditions water Is lift* ed from a reservoir at elevation 1400 to the terminal reservoirs at elevation 2G38. Bader the present operating conditions six pumping tmlts will discharge about 36 million gallons per day against a total dynamic head of more than 800 feet. Without alteration or change these same pumps will deliver at least SO million gallons per day against a tcti. dynamic head of 650 feet at little or no sacrifice of efficiency, At least 50 million gallons per day could be delivered to the site of the Manganese Ores plant at elevation 1836.6. PIPE LIKE CAPACITY At* a pumping rate of 50 million gallons per day the velocity in the existing 40 inch pipe line would be 8.8 feet per second. & velocity is not unusual nor Is it inordinately uneconomical * Pf?*idnlarly since the average imping rate would be less than 60 million gallons per day. Pressure on the line would net exceed presently imposed pressures. PROPOSED SEOQHBARY BOOSTER PDMPIBO STATICS At the Manganese Ores plant the water would be delivered to a junction reservoir, either new or made by altering one of the ting Derr thickener tanks. A new booster pumping station would lift the water 201 • 5 feet from the Junction reservoir to the terminal reservoir at Henderson, iupply to Manganese Ores would be taken from the discharge side of these booster pumps. JROPOSES PIPE LIBS TO LAS VESAS the Junction reservoir at elevation 1836.5 all water jjp taken by the Industries would be available through a gravity flow pipe line to a standpipe located near Charleston Boulevard at ground elevation 1T50.0. This would be on a direct route across the easterly valley fan and it would be a relatively low pressure line. Domestic water would be boosted from this point into the domes* tic water distribution lines. Water would also be available, if required, for potential agricultural land in the lower Valley. EifERMOy WATER SXSHAH5E Supplemental water from Lake Mead would make possible a stabilisation of the subterranean reservoir which underlies a large area of the Las Vegas Valley. By reverse flow through the proposed Las Vegas pipe line, water from the underground basin