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Press release by Las Vegas Valley Water District on installation of water meters, October 25,... |
News release by the Las Vegas Valley Water District reporting that they had formally requested the state attorney general to review and state officially the legality of the District's plans to install water meters in Las Vegas. Statement included opinions... |
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Agreement for the delivery of Lake Mead water to the Las Vegas Valley, 1952 |
Agreement between the Las Vegas Valley Water District and Basic Management Inc. for the delivery of water from Lake Mead. |
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Letter from E. E. Bennett to F. H. Knickerbocker, June 27, 1936 |
Discussion of another attempt to get the water metering prohibition repealed in the Nevada state legislature. Bennett recognizes that the law was enacted due to abuses by the Reno Power, Light & Water Company. |
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Report on Las Vegas water situation from C. E. Swann (Rock Springs, Wyoming) to George... |
Report on water supply and use in Las Vegas. C. E. Swann, one of the authors of the report was Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Coal Company. The addressee, Mr. George B. Pryde was Vice President of the Union... |
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Letter from W. W. White (Reno) to Senator Pat A. McCarran (Washington, D.C.), September 22,... |
Letter written by the Director of Nevada's Division of Public Health Engineering to Senator McCarran informing of sewerage problems in Reno and the Nevada statutes regulating metering of water in larger Nevada towns like Las Vegas and Reno. |
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, February 26, 1945 |
Discussion of a meeting with the chamber of commerce regarding water metering in Las Vegas. The water company asserted that their desire for water meters was solely in the interest of water conservation and not increasing revenues. |
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt (Los Angeles), March 28, 1941 |
Table showing meter readings of gallons of water used during a twenty-day period in March 1941. Bracken states the meters are manufactured by Sparling, and suggests they are over-registering. |
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Letter from F. R. Adamson (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, April 22, 1927 |
A suggestion that although the renewal of the agreement between the Railroad and the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. was unimportant, since both were wholly owned by the Union Pacific, they should take the opportunity to use meters to... |
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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 10,... |
Letter from the Railroad stating that water meters were necessary to determine what a fair rate would be when the contract between the Railroad and the water company was re-negotiated. |