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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 storage eapaeity that is available for the Water Company at this time? A* Yes, sir* Q. What is that amount? A. In Paragraph 2 of Page 1 of ’’Exhibit A”, I have stated that the storage eapaeity of the two reservoirs owned by the Water Company amount to 2* 1/2 million gallons and 1-1/2 million gallons. This quantity was secured for me from the Water Company by my Street Inspector, Mr. Belcher, and due to lack of time, I didn’t have a chance to confirm that myself by telephone conversation. Q, Mow, do you know, of your own knowledge, whether any additional storage capacity has been added since the ordinance was passed in the summer of 1949? A. Hone to my knowledge $ I have no report to that effeet. Mow, Mr. Anderson, ©an you testify as to what the safe amount of storage capacity is for a city of this size, as re­quired by sound engineering practices? A. It’s rather a technical question. 1 have in this re­port, which is on Page 2 of the first part of ”Exhibit Is, stated as fellows$ "For a town of this size, the water storage capacity should be sufficient to meet the needs of the community for at least a 48-hour period should the source of water become unavailable through damage. In considering the storage requirements, irrigation water could be elimin­ated in favor of the domestic consumption so that a minimum storage eapaeity should be between 12 and 15 million gallons«H That’s a practice which is being followed through by many of the