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LAS VEGAS MORNING SUN O ctob er 29, 1952 F iv e m illio n m o^e gallon s] o f fi;a te r a d a y to m eet n ext sum m er’s th reaten ed sh ortage | w as v irtu a lly assured th e peo- ! p ie o f L a s V egas yesterd^Jn l a fte r a re p o rt b y a L a s V e g a * V a lle y W a te r D is tric t cng^K / n eer w as endorsed b y R obei% S. A lle n , ch airm an o f th e N e-, vati% l?u b lic S ervic e C om m is- I s io i^ a t a m eetin g h ere. ;« P | [ Attepdkig the meeting in the J j mayor’Si'pffice vyere Allen, Mayor j C. D.” Baker; Jam es Montgom­e r y , engineer, and H arry Miller, board member of the Las Vegas V alley W ater DisfRet. | i^ th e intehVof the PgC 1 ; that La§. Vegas be provided with i ; ample w ater next,,.summer!” A l-; j len declared after, Montgomery, < cqnsultihg5E,engineer,, pretented J ' his plan to .Increase- next year’s I w ater supply a t least 30 percent, j j he said. Allen added that the,:PSC w ill: a c t on the plan in thr-te weeks. The proposed plan calls <fer: I (1.) Adding pumps to six?Las Vegas Land and W ater Co. wells? | thereby increasing the local ;| w ater supply by five million- gal^ f Ions a day; j (2.) Requesting t h e water h company to submit a w eekly re-port on each of its wells, with : periodic inspection of operations I by a rep resen tativ es;. .? | Allen indicated that this report , j would be made available to tbs j city commissioners, I Montgomery-asserted* that this | is the first of three steps to prpS j vide L as Vegas with an adequate j w ater supply.- | First, he said, we must have J this stop-gap plan to prevent a I water shortage next summer, j I 'The second step w ill come 1 when the Henderson pipe line is I tapped. The third and final phase will I be a pipeline to bring w ater di- | rectly from Lake Meadl f I Montgomery reported that an | engineer and w ell driller Have : I been inspecting the w ater com- j I pany’s wells, and their report in - ; | dichted ; that there are ample j 1 booster pump facilities, but not i I enough water.* - I To remedy t h i s situation, I pumps were added to wells num- j I ber 2, 8, and 9; and a-2,200-gallon-a - m i n u t e increase resulted, whjch amounts to three million : gallons a day. By adding pumps to three more wells (numbers 3, 10, and 4) it is estimated that the 5 mil* iion-gaiion-a-day increase w ill - be attained. This w ill bring the daily local: | w ater supply up to 22 million gallons. It has been estimated that the j I proposed plan w ill cost about $50,000, and that this cost w ill! j eventually be borne by the w ater 3 .district if its plans to purchase the w ater company materialize.