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    1 1 1 1 'At the time our AF$ request feme mad# we felt tUs.t with tac shutting down of Basic Magnesium til ant the population of Lae V«g&t would decline. thli, however, fees not occurred. The popu­lation remain?* at about 2 0 ,000; there is today ah acute housing shortage^'end it that with other producers using the Basle facilities the city etll gradually InoPCCSMe in population'during the var period and is lively to hold or even increase Ito popula­tion In the poe tvar period , X think re feivs consistently wider-rated Las Vegas. as a resort coatsunlty, ; /'Kith the anticipated dally maximum demand reaching gallons tats year, #% fasvt lust sufficient pressures ' to pass this Quantity through our BB and LVL&V facilities, so that xrlth say ? increase la - demand & new mala from reservoir to distribution system rill he required. '. <wl cur Ea Co .?/ natnc feed to the central and northerly portions of the city, a new main should fee 'Connected at the southerly end of the' distribution system. In lasti there is m real need''for such a main at this time to equal­ise pressures and reduce friction losses in the distribution eye-ten. K# propose in the amended ATS to construct a 2 ,500,000- gallon reservoir in the vicinity of Veil N©# 1 0 , close tc Qiarles-ton Blvd., and divert the voter from Vella Nos. S, § and 10, and new Kell No. llthr o u g h a settling basin tc the reservoir* install . booster puape, and-- construct a 2b* line along Charleston Blvd. to a connection with the ’distribution system at Main Street. 9 the tendency of .residential development la Lee Vegas is, along Charleston Boulevard, both eact and west of our tracks. We have alrfaiy-Mhd a- request for water service from the Mayor of Las Vegas,^ idio owns lib acres • fronting on Charleston Blvd. and shutting our property on the efwt.lg the Voodlawn Parle Tract, of 20 users, near the benerel Hospital, now served by privately owned veil# has repeatedly requested our service, and unquestionably, vlth removal of governmental restrictions there will be a substantial development along both sides of Charleston 31 vd. between gall No. 10 and our tracks, creating a condition that wo feel will bring about an early order of the ftate Cornels®ion to furnish water service. If ve lead ail of cur water to the existing reservoir and booster -pump site, service along this portion of Charleston Blvd. could only be effected by bringing the water back a distance of about three-quarters of a alia, uphill, requiring heavy and expen­sive pumping. The proposed nev line in Charleston Blvd. vill serve a double purpose, it will equalize pressures and reduce friction losses in our entire distribution, at the sane tine making avail­able lister service along Charleston Blvd. between Veil No. 10 and connection at Main Street. Ke estimate the capacity of this line, with proposed booster pumps, at 7,0 0 0 OPh, with about bo lbs. pres­sure at the Main Street connection. Kells If* 9 , and 10 are nev producing at the rate of b,27* 0PM, and Kell, So. U may reasonably be expected to produce at least l,o00 QPh, making total for this diveralcn of CMf,