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/ o /% o Condensed Description of Project, shoving Necessity for Amended Application In February, 19^5» when W.P.B. Application, subsequently approved under Serial No. 10 -1 -9998, was submitted, our maximum water production ability was 13,000,000 gallons per day. Average dally consumption for the hot month of August, 19^4, was 10,875,000 gallons, but meter measurements showed the maximum dally consump­tion during that month to be 1 3 ,000,000 gallons, so that during that month our only margin of safety In production over consump­tion was a 2 ,500,000 reservoir storage, leaving us In a precarious position in event of a bad fire or failure of one or more of our producing wells. We contemplated drilling a new well (the pro­duction from which we estimated would be not less than 1 ,000,000 OPD), with a pipe line to oarry the water to our existing reservoir. magnesium, and its activities were confined solely to production of chlorine with a much reduced payroll, with no indication that the payroll would be Increased. Subsequently, however, while production of ohlorine is continued,ether war production activ­ities are using parts of the plant - Rheem Mfg” Co. for the manufacture of rocket ammunition, Western Electro-Chemical Co. for the production of potassium chlorate and potassium per­chlorate (the latter used in Jet propulsion rockets), and the Cornwall Warehousing Go. for storage of Army materials, with the result that the Basic Magnesium total payroll of 16 3ft em­ployes as of February 1 , 19ft5> has been Increased to i s 4,1^ - employes as of June 1 , 19 ^5 , with the expectation that there will be further wartime increase. Other employment at Las Vegas has been maintained or Increased, so that as of this date, we have a materially Increased water demand over and above that anticipated when our previous application was filed. Last spring, we performed some experimental work on 5 of our 10 wells by increasing the size of perforations. This experiment was successful in producing enough water to meet the anticipated maximum 19ft§ demand of lft,600,000 GPD; but to handle this quantity of water would tax our mains from reservoir to distribution system to the utmost, and our present reservoir oapaoity of 2 ,500,000 gallons would not be adequate in event of failure of any one of our large producing wells. and we have every reason to expect a still greater demand upon our distribution system in 19ft6. This increased demand can only be met by providing additional storage oapacity and con­structing a new main from the producing field to the distribution Basic Magnesium Plant had discontinued production of There is today an acute housing shortage in L&s Vegas, -1-