With the resumption of main traffic to the East and the operation of interurbans to Tacoma, interest in the heavy rainfall of the past week centers about the condition and repair of the county roads and the rise of water in the impounding basin at the city reservoir at Cedar lake.

Conditions at Cedar river, already serious because of the immense quantity of water impounded back of the masonry dam, became more alarming Saturday as the result of a heavy rains which continued throughout the day in the Cedar river watershed. Late Saturday afternoon the water was three feet above the bottom of the spillway at the masonry dam and was steadily rising. Officials at the city hall venture no prediction as to what might happen in the event the water continues to rise. No fears are felt for the masonry dam, as its solid construction makes it capable of holding successfully all the water that may be impounded behind it. The danger lies in the seepage from the reservoir which may burst through the north bank on the Snoqualmie side as it did at the time of the Edgewick disaster, December 23, 1918.

Superintendent L. B.Youngs, of the water department, reports the break in the pipe lines between the masonry dam and the power house on Cedar river as serious, but he expects to have the repairs made and the lines in use by the end of next week. Mr. Youngs found, upon making a personal investigation, that the accident was caused by a break in the smaller of the wooden slave pipe lines and not by an earth slide, as first reported. The huge stream of water escaping from the broken pipe line washed the earth out from under the pipe lines, making a great cavern in the hillside. The larger pipe line broke under the strain and added its torrent to the water flowing down the hillside into the canyon below.

About 400 feet of pipe line were washed out and a gap in the hillside fifty feet was cut. Two pile drivers sent from Seattle Friday reached the scene of the accident Saturday evening and will be set up and ready for work by Sunday night. The chasm will be bridged with a heavy pile trestle and the pipe lines will then be rebuilt. Unless unforseen obstacles are encounterd, Mr. Youngs believe the work will be completed within a week.

In the mean time, the city's steam plant on Lake Union will be able to supply all the electric current needed, Mr. Youngs says. The city water supply is not threatened by the break in the pipe lines, as the water is taken from the Cedar river at Lansburgh, several miles below the scene of the break.

[Remainder of article is about road and railroad repairs.]