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Page 2. PECGOLE continues asking Folger questions: Have you any wooden pipe lines left in use? Jins. None. Have you any leakage? Ans. None except at the service connections. WILLIAMS entered his resistance to more storage requirement. There will he 15 % evaporation. Just so much water can be drawn safely from the basin. The State Engineer-I am not the State Engr says the ground water level is receding. Reinhardt told us 1§ years ago that your water to Mead to get the additional water needed here, basin was being depleted. Mayor agrees, period, doubt if the District can float their bonds by revenue.Wot/ being collected by Water Company plus other custom- Williams then said the income wras about $200,000 annually to Water Co. Mayor then said” I wont object to higher water rates. MAYOR: Your Mr Company will not go Bennett agreed that So go elsevfhere. I the ers the BENNETT : We tried to get a law passed to install meters but it was bucked by the Vegans. All residents want to sprinkle from 6-8. MAYOR: The people look to the City for more water. BENNETTL We need an honest attempt made to save water. Last week was rainy. It was no test of saving. This week may be a real test if it gets hot. The District or the City should go to the Uncle Sam and get a hand out to finance half the cost of the new plans. The District cannot sell $5,000,000 revenue bonds I We couldn’t. You think^the State Engineer is denying the drilling of more wells. Well, he isnt. Look at the papers. The Race track getting permission for new W i l l s . W e protect every appropriation as interfering with out previous right to the water. The trouble centers around the 2 hour sprinkling rule. BUNKER : Why is there no more water available? How about the Searles well which came in at 1200 Gal per min. Why did the nego­tiations for the purchase of this well fail? Tell me ]Why did the Land and Water Co. fail to make a deal? Folger denies knowledge. It is just so much Hog-wash to say there is no more water in the ground than that you are now getting. Look at these other wells, which disproves it J BENNETT: But these new wells all diminish the flow of our original wells. Reinhardt could better answer. But he is away. SHELLEY: Your measurement of the water is phony.. We went out to see the meters by which you measure the flow and found we had to use a shovel to clean the mud off the meter dial. (This was explained as a secondary meter seldom read). WHIPPLE: Cant you put on some more pumps, say one for Huntridge? Suppose it cost you $400,000 to put in this equipment— you would get it back from the District when they buy you out » Let the water drop for another year or so. Get us more water now- may be the District can get us water in 2 years. What if we have depleted the underground basin? Why will not the RR spend the money now. Folger answered by saying one did not fix up a car about to be sold. BENNETT: Suppose the Water District fails to go ahead? I think we should try to save water. The people will probably be against bonds. The first Act called for revenue bonds- then it was changed to revenue and obligation bonds » Mayor: We get only 41^ out of $1.50 rate. None in it for the Water District. BENNETT: The people are against paying to get water to Paradise Valley. WHIPPLE: If the District fails, then what? Bennett said- Why go the usual route- try to get Federal money to help.