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Las Vegas - June 15, i f t f W 2 >3-b Ip . 9. f . bengert: deliveries of water from bPBR to LVLiW during the past fee days have been running pretty close to capacity, resulting la Inadequate pressure during peak demands of the day and insufficient safety reserves, this situation sill probably continue throughout the summer and ft feel we should do sgerythlng possible to insure a steady and depend­able supply from the present facilities at hand, as It dose not appear that we will have sources of supply this year# any additional following Wsiuglgle satpipornesc:iate your consideration of the 1* Power interruptions should he confined to a minimum. Any necessary work to be done by Electri­cal load dang should be handled in early morning home , before peek demand starts, any power should not be shat off without prior notice to me# 2. When power is interrupted even for erne minute, the booster pumps stop and will not re-start with resumption of power but must be manually reset# this requires a trip by water service attendant to both the old and new reservoirs, and if his own auto­mobile is not available it results in the pressure in town dropping badly far upwards of half an hour. If you have an old pick-up truck that could be assigned the water production field during summer months, it would assist us considerably# 3# More than two-thirds of the water supplied comes from the Old Beservoir. yet the boosters at the Old Beservoir are not as efficient as those at the Mew (Charleston) Beservoir. fhe pumps at the Sid Beservoir are equipped with two 75-HP motors, and at Charleston thers are two 100-HP mo-tore. Suggest consideration be given to Increasing efficiency of booster units at Old Beservoir la order to penult us to better tof deliveries to City# A. K. Folgsr