EVOLUTIONS OF WATER SUPPLIES.
THE assembling of this American Water Works Convention suggests some reminiscences of the growths and developments of water supply sys tems in America. We, here assembled represent the most useful of them and a large proportion of them. American public water supplies are more than 2,000 in number and they cost more than $600,000,000. Vet some of us remember the inaugurations of very many of them. Let us first refer to a few of those whose early days were beyond our observations.
In the year 1652, the city of Boston had a reservoir near Dock square. This reservoir was 12 feet in length and 12 feet in width. Some wooden pipes led the waterof neighboring springs into this tank which gave the domestic supply of the city. About a half century later four mains of pitch pine logs were laid from Jamaica Pond in Roxbury, into Boston to give an additional supply of water. Two of those pipes were of 4-inch bore and two of 3-inch bore.
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