Plan to Electrify Lake Geneva Water Plant
The Lake Geneva. Wis., Water Commissioners, some time ago, engaged engineers to investigate the water and light plant and a report has been submitted by the Central Bureau of Consulting Engineers, W. H. Allen, president, Chicago, Ill., and Gordon Mcl. Proudfoot, consulting engineer on electrical equipment and efficiency. This report says, in part: We have made a complete investigation of the conditions in your city and a study of methods and costs of electrifying your water works plant and installing a generating plant, and beg to submit the following report, covering: The first cost of electrifying the water works. The cost per thousand gallons for puming water. The cost of installing a generating plant. The cost per k.|w. for generating electricity and a comparison of operating costs. In addition to the results of our own investigations, we have used for purposes of calculation the following facts and figures supplied us by your honorable chairman and your superintendent: A winter consumption averaging 300,000 gallons per day. A summer consumption averaging 600,000 gallons per day. A desired capacity of 1,000,000 gallons per day. Annual cost for coal, at $3.25 per ton, $2,400. Annual cost for street lights 5c. per k. w., $2,067. A tested well capacity of 900,000 gallons per day. The present well being too small to admit the entrance of an economical style of pump barrel of sufficient size to handle the capacity, we have considered digging an additional well alongside and connecting the present well below the water level, in order to admit the installation of two deep well pumps.
Recommend Two Deep Well Pumps.
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