ST. JOHN, N. B. WATERWORKS.
1855年，在一家私人公司拥有后，圣约翰的水工厂被代表圣约翰市和当时波特兰教区的委员会接管，现在是圣约翰的一部分。1889年，对水工厂的控制直接转移到市议会上。从1851年开始，从谷物磨坊的尾部到沼泽桥附近的蒸汽泵站，将供应从木管中抽水。供应不足，购买了水库，并在高水位上方建造了163英尺的大坝。几年后，毕竟只有一个实验性的抽水站支付了钱，它决心通过沿着小河谷南侧的高地面携带的渡槽从莱塔默湖供应。。就'轮廓所允许的而言，一条管道继续前往小河大坝的电源，因此将头部高于当时现有的水库水平140英尺，即道格拉斯湖（Douglas Lake）上方七十英尺。结果表明，可以通过MISPCC山谷从Loch Lomond补充Latimer湖，这是Mispcc Latimer湖的原始出口的方式，该湖仍然溢出。从湖拉蒂默（Lake Latimer）的目前溢流水平比洛蒙德湖（Loch Lomond）高两英尺，面积为210英亩，最大深度为60英尺，钢筋混凝土渡槽将延伸至山谷轮廓允许的范围- 1.3英里的距离。此时，一条近两英里的三十三座木质管道将延伸至小河水库的当前主管，然后洛蒙德水将通过现在的电源传递到城市。总配电系统总计85.18英里，如下：街道电源，51.36英里； fire hydrant services. 1.34; house services, etc., 85.18; stop-cocks, 7,177; service pipes, 5.831 ; meters, 201 (Crown, Hersey and Worthington). The city is divided into two separate portions by the broad and deep waters of the St. John river ters of the St. John river and harbor of the same name. For this reason the water supplies are derived from two distinct sources, twelve miles apart, situate in opposite directions, with the city between. The East Side is supplied through two twenty-four-inch pipes and one twelve-inch pipe, all of cast iron, from Little reservoir—an artificial lake, five miles distant, with a capacity of about 122,000.000 gallons and formed bv damming the valley and causing the water of Little river to expand to an extent of fiftyfive and one-third acres. The West Side is supplied through 4.8 miles of cement lined twelveinch pipe and five and a half miles of twenty-fourinch cast iron pipe from Spruce and Ludgate lakes, an extensive expanse of water still retaining the two distinctive names, but united into one sheet by the building of a dam at the outlet of the lower lake (Spruce lake) in the year 1866, and consequent raising of its water to and above the former level of Ludgate lake. A distribution reservoir is situated at the termination of the West Side twenty-four-inch main. The elevation of its surface is generally kept at about 159 feet above high-water datum, St. John harbor, and its capacity is about 1.500.000 gallons. The inlet pipe, since the laying of the twenty-four-inch main, has been kept shut to prevent overflowage, and a check-valve placed on the outlet pipe to prevent back-flow to the reservoir, and to make its delivery automatic in case of a falling off in pressure. The mode of supply is gravitation, with an auxiliary pump for high-service on the Little river system, actuated by waterpower at Silver Falls. The population at the census of 1901 was as follows: East Side, 36,281; West Side, 4.430—40,711.
