洛厄尔有利的水报告

洛厄尔有利的水报告

In submitting its annual report for the last fiscal year the water board of Lowell, Mass., says that the finances of the department have been carefully looked after. Beginning with a deficit of $7,637.49, owing to payments on the new Holly pump in 1908, the expenditures for the year were $4,266.50 less than 1908, exclusive of the new pump. The Holly pump has fulfilled the claims made for it by the builders, that it would save two-thirds of the amount of coal used by the old pumps, and appears to be doing better than that, for where the old pumps consumed an average of six tons of coal a day and pumped 400 gallons per pound, the Holly uses one ton per day, pumping 1,800 gallons per pound. The average cost of coal per year has been $19,000, but last year it only cost $8,869, which shows the economy of the new pumping machinery. The receipts for the year were $212,718, and the expenses $204,074. The cost of the works to January, 1909, is shown as $3,135,912, expended for construction during the year, $15,950, making a total cost of $3,151,863. The receipts from the sale of meters aggregated $7,558; from new services, $2,369; from rates, $28,673; from meterage, $183,858. Total net pumpage for 1909 was 1,909,792,832 gallons; for 1908, 1,922,341,696 gallons, or a decrease of 12,548,864 gallons. The consumption for 1909 was 1,912,740,525 gallons; for 1908, 1,921,634,322 gallons, or a decrease in 1909 of 8,893,797 gallons; high service pumpage for 1909, 63,219,422 gallons; high service pumpage for 1908, 52,728,354 gallons; increase in 1909, 10,491,068 gallons; cost of low service pumpage in 1909, $16.29 per 1,000,000 gallons; cost of low service pumpage in 1908, $18.88 per 1,000,000 gallons; decrease in 1909, $2.59 per 1,000,000 gallons; cost of high service pumpage in 1909, $14.19 per 1,000,000 gallons; cost of high service pumpage in 1908, $13.54 per 1,000,000 gallons; increase in 1909, 65 cents per 1,000,000 gallons.

拥有其水厂的洛厄尔拥有至少100,000的人口，其工厂于1873年建成其工厂。它的供应来源是210河河口溪谷的河流，345位Pawtucket Boulevard，供应方式泵送模式到水库和直接抽水。使用的泵包括沃辛顿，杜安。诺克尔斯，莫里斯和霍莉模式。在今年期间，消费了2,877吨煤炭。这一年的总用水量为1,912,740,525加仑，993,016,015加仑通过米，消费量为51.9;平均每日消费，5,246,385加仑，或人均54.37加仑。每1,000,000加仑在总维护方面提供水的费用为61.86美元。1909年，铺设了9,965英尺的新铁水电源，在城市共提供143.44英里。目前有1,321名消防栓，15年内放置15年。 Forty-nine new stop gates were added, making a total of 1,558 at present set. The range of pressure on mains, low service, is 17 to 72 pounds. Services were extended 7.046 feet, making the present total about 20 miles, with 12,307 taps, the average yearly cost of service being $27.56; number of meters added 328, making a total of 9,465, with a percentage of service metered 76.9. A further analysis of receipts for water shows that 87 per cent. was derived from metered water, while only 75 per cent, of the supplies are metered, which proves that many of the services still on fixture rate are not paying for all the water they use. The number of metered accounts is 9,466; on fixture rates, 2,125.