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(5) officials contemplate that In addition to apart* meats and nooning houses this will require some 2,000 houses. From the early stages of this project a separate townslte has heen contemplated, water to he furnished from Lake Head, hut no substantial progress to that end has heen made. Apparently the townslte project has become a political football, and It now seems doubtful that housing from this source will be available when needed. We have no way of determining what the answer will be. If the townslte project fails and FHA projects bring about the construction of homes, apartments and rooming houses in Las Vegas to accommodate an increase in population of perhaps 10,000, our peak requirements might reach 10 or 11 million OP©, In such event the production that would be made available by carrying out our budget recommendation would prove insufficient, and additional wells and other facilities would have to be provided, (b) Regardless ©f the outcome of the townslte program and whatever expansion may occur in Boulder City, we can foresee an appreciable increase in population to the City of Las Vegas, and it is to accommodate this practically certain increase la population that we have provided for additional wells, which, if both are required, would increase our production capacity from the anticipated 1941 production of 6,600,000 CP© to an estimated 1942 total available to the Water Company of 8,160,000 CPS* We propose to spread these two wells out to the south, not only to keep them away from the drainage areas of existing wells but also to determine the productive capacity of our recently acquired property. Item 4, It Is proposed to Install booster pumps at the reservoir In order to increase the capacity of our two delivery mains and also provide sufficient pressure to utilize this water in the distribution system. Two pumps of different capacities are proposed to make the system flexible. These pumps will only be used during peak periods. Baring the remainder of the time the water will be bypassed around the pumps. By this arrangement we will be able to take care of the additional water requirements, up to the amount herein contemplated, in our distribution system without materially changing the present pressure on this system.