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LAS V E G A S R E V I E W J OUR NA L PUB LI s h e d : AUP 2 9 1949 Overton Water District Officials Strike Snag in Effort to- ImproveConditions , The Overton water district officials H'avestruck another' snag in: .'?*>*? their, efforts to prepare-ir revenue pbnd issue: to improve the town’®': water systenL itj.was regaled today by reports received fropi offi- , jials ..of the # d t f r: dfefriei- . ' Accorffingi'tO GeorgeySnoVeen, president of the district, tne town_ has title t(n-ciftij^OOTg^tiaj'e feet in the iinmedja|Kvi(n^ty of the ;.stora§e;tan® ^^® i^te& neceS- i >sary to procure'title-tdi^ditional , land in tise Ereatbefdrd floating 1 the prop6sed''b©nd Steps: haVe ^te^takeh-to pur­chase a considerable acreage in the desired;.- rodafion, Snoreen j: said, but mc^t' of it:-:still is public domain and-a'great-deal of fed I tape: tnust^Jie unraveled before i title can fee’ secured. In an effort to expedite the- Release, of the land, the aid of-.Senator Pat M e-! Carran has been, enlisted, and h e; has promised to-speed the action; as much as possible. The, present water supply for Overton is taken from the Muddy river; through irrigation ditches; to a single^gettling lagoon from which -it ig.-ppiftped into, the pres-i ent stor^gte^^ls.. This water 1 mg has been'"nhh'sidered as; unsani­tary and .'unsafe'’' for drinking water and use for domestic pur-! p oseSv.; is5*;. Another scarce of drinking water is transferred from wells in Las Vegas to the tank cars and from the cars.to thd consum­ers’ portable containers. These- •re usually stored' and used in the homes with what Snoreen de­scribed as "reckless faith in its potability.” . Snoreen pointed out, however, that this method of handling the imported water “may well *be as potentially dangerous to the. pub­lic health as is the water from the irrigation, canal.”, i. It was reported that, as soon as the land reo.uired Can be obtain­ed, the waier^fetriet plans to present to the voters OE Overton town a reygnue'.bond to ' finance the new sygiepir,, I Two piStis;-for‘ the - ip] proye-ment or re(;ffecement of the pres­ent systeblwilLbe fplai'ed: before the voters ;£ncrr^en 'saliiif pS The .first -proposal. 'is ;rthe;. re­sult of"Si extensive survey made ; by Consulting Engineer Ralph W. O’Neil, of Glendaley’iCaiifdTnia, who is familiar with the culinary \Hggfls of-this valley. - | O’Neil suggests the building _ot a treatment plants and additional storage; facilities ? at the . present tank site. The treatment plant will take care of the reduction of fluorine in the water, which has. been estimated by recent sur-veys to be three and a half tirr.es : the amount generally .considered I optimum. The cost of the *r§at-i ment plant, not including the re-' duction of fluorine, ig:’ estimated ?at about $62,215. ’"./jagg, p Costs of additional?: s t o r a g e ? tank^ and installation 'of a new distribution system to replace the present obsolete . apd worn ou|, j pipes will r u nJBhut'$82,000 more I The second plan to*he voted on' proposes to improve the present system by 'building three new (settling tanks on the mesa above ] the present storage ’’tafnk which J will provide approximately 1,000,-, 1 000 gallon capacity. Tne present (tank holds but.75,000 gallons and (there is no treatment other than, chlorination at present. The new tanks on the mesa will have sand filters and will have a gravity flow to the storage tanks, It is proposed also to lay a new eight in’6h _mairm0’6m “the storage tank which is on the .hill just below the mesa, .down through town to the* main street and thence south one-half -mile south to Porter’s motel. Four inch laterals will serve the rest of the community. The new distribution system'will assure adequate pres­sure and wafer for regulating fire control and shpiild lower the fire -rates for Overtoil.