Auburn Waterworks Report.

Auburn Waterworks Report.

的最新年度报告水厂department of Auburn, N. Y., is at hand, and from it the following information is taken: The effort of the board to enact a law that would permit the city to bond itself for the sum of $170,000 with which to build a filter plant was voted down by the people, but notwithstanding the defeat of this measure the present water commissioners feel that the filtration of Auburn’s water supply, if the health and the lives of the residents of the city is to be protected, is an absolute necessity. Filtration has only been delayed, and not defeated. After careful study and investigation of the subject, the necessary steps were taken to have the superintendent design and construct a "hypochlorite disinfecting plant" for treating the water, it being understood that this was to he only a temporary arrangement to meet emergencies which might arise. While the inspection of the watershed has been carried on in the same vigorous manner as usual, the board, during the year, also put into the field laborers to clean up many undesirable situations, and especially those along the west side of Owasco lake, at a point about opposite the crib of the intake pipe in what is known as Van Xess Brook cove. At this place a dangerous situation existed, which has now been remedied beyond any question. When the present rules and regulations of the watershed were promulgated by the State Department of Health, tire Albany authorities assumed that the level of the lake would never be above that of the legal high-water mark at the dam near the lower pump house, and hence a certain distance back trom high-water mark was required by them for all water closets and privies. After all the cottagers in this particular vicinity had complied with the requirements of the law, in so lar as removing their closets to the prescribed distance, the level of the lake rose higher than the waters at the dam, and consequently upset the calculations of the makers ot the law; the result of this was that in sonic instances privies in this location were flooded. The board felt that the cottage owners who had previously complied with the law could not be compelled to go to further expense, and therefore it was determined that concrete water-tight vaults should be built at an absolutely safe elevation above the lake, and of superior construction to anything which had ever been attempted by the cottage owners. This work was done under the board's supervision, and there is now absolutely no chance for any fecal pollution reaching the lake by the water rising and overflowing into or around any of these vaults. There are, by actual count from the books of this department, 5,825 taps for domestic users of water, 150 of which were put in this season; and tile meter tables show a total of 045 meters in use, making in all something less than a total of 0,470 services. Because of the fact that in a number of instances moie than one meter is installed on one service connection, a very close approximation would be that 9½ per cent, of the total number of services are metered. During the year there were made 200 bacteriological examinations of the water. The two highest counts were 1.700 and 0,500 per c.c., while the lowest count was 5 bacteria per cubic centimeter of water. The daily average of water consumption last year was 6.228,323 gallons, or a total yearly consumption of 2,273,838,110 gallons. This is a material decrease from the amount of water consumed during the two previous years.

的最新年度报告水厂department of Auburn, N. Y., is at hand, and from it the following information is taken: The effort of the board to enact a law that would permit the city to bond itself for the sum of $170,000 with which to build a filter plant was voted down by the people, but notwithstanding the defeat of this measure the present water commissioners feel that the filtration of Auburn’s water supply, if the health and the lives of the residents of the city is to be protected, is an absolute necessity. Filtration has only been delayed, and not defeated. After careful study and investigation of the subject, the necessary steps were taken to have the superintendent design and construct a "hypochlorite disinfecting plant" for treating the water, it being understood that this was to he only a temporary arrangement to meet emergencies which might arise. While the inspection of the watershed has been carried on in the same vigorous manner as usual, the board, during the year, also put into the field laborers to clean up many undesirable situations, and especially those along the west side of Owasco lake, at a point about opposite the crib of the intake pipe in what is known as Van Xess Brook cove. At this place a dangerous situation existed, which has now been remedied beyond any question. When the present rules and regulations of the watershed were promulgated by the State Department of Health, tire Albany authorities assumed that the level of the lake would never be above that of the legal high-water mark at the dam near the lower pump house, and hence a certain distance back trom high-water mark was required by them for all water closets and privies. After all the cottagers in this particular vicinity had complied with the requirements of the law, in so lar as removing their closets to the prescribed distance, the level of the lake rose higher than the waters at the dam, and consequently upset the calculations of the makers ot the law; the result of this was that in sonic instances privies in this location were flooded. The board felt that the cottage owners who had previously complied with the law could not be compelled to go to further expense, and therefore it was determined that concrete water-tight vaults should be built at an absolutely safe elevation above the lake, and of superior construction to anything which had ever been attempted by the cottage owners. This work was done under the board's supervision, and there is now absolutely no chance for any fecal pollution reaching the lake by the water rising and overflowing into or around any of these vaults. There are, by actual count from the books of this department, 5,825 taps for domestic users of water, 150 of which were put in this season; and tile meter tables show a total of 045 meters in use, making in all something less than a total of 0,470 services. Because of the fact that in a number of instances moie than one meter is installed on one service connection, a very close approximation would be that 9½ per cent, of the total number of services are metered. During the year there were made 200 bacteriological examinations of the water. The two highest counts were 1.700 and 0,500 per c.c., while the lowest count was 5 bacteria per cubic centimeter of water. The daily average of water consumption last year was 6.228,323 gallons, or a total yearly consumption of 2,273,838,110 gallons. This is a material decrease from the amount of water consumed during the two previous years.