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Wafer District Officials Speed Lake Mead Survey The Las Vegas valley water district directors are speeding I plans for- the completion of the I preliminary survey of the feasi­bility of bringing Lake Mead water into the valley, and report 5^ that tremendous progress has r been made in the past few \‘ weeks. Kenneth Hill, engineer for the J Greeley and Hanson engineering firm “hired by the' district to make a feasibility report, met with the directors iast night and presented a report in which he ^ said the feasibility report will rS be completed by October 15 and ^ issued to the public. According to the directors, the j report Hill made was the most J ' comprehensive possible and all i of the directors were highly im- . im­pressed with the statistics in- ^ eluded and the thoroughness K with which the company had j gone into the details of the pro-j Ject- . The report cannot be com- “5. I pleted, however, until the dis- f \*j trict gets some indication of how much the Las Vegas Land and Water company’s distribution system in the city of Las Vegas J) f cost, if purchased, because O r the e n t i r e financial picture ^ hinges on this detail, ! The second step necessary be-j. fore the report can be completed . ’ is the securing of a positive com- | mitment from the Colorado ri­ver commission regarding the I amount of water that can be | delivered at the Basic plant and , the approximate cost of the wa­ter. : A preliminary conference al­ready has been set up by -the directors with the officials of the j land and water company, * in an effort to probe the possibility of reaching a figure for the distri-bjition system as rapidly as pos­sible. It is hoped that thS entire pro­gram will be in shape- to pre­sent to, the public , service hear­ing op water whicfi is scheduled for Las Vegas On October 11.“-