芝加哥水系统。
芝加哥的代理城市工程师肖（Shaw）承认，允许城市水工厂系统（City Waterworks System）倒塌，并且将花费10,000,000美元，而十年的恢复时间则需要十年。还被认为水费用是私人公司收取的价格的一半到三分之一。工程师肖自己的话如下；“城市工程师Ericson和咨询工程师MCHARG正在全心全意地关注准备恢复水工厂系统的计划。他们还没有足够的时间来确定康复将要花费多少。但是已经确定了足够的确保他们将获得该系统的全部收入十到十五年。这将花费全部10,000,000美元，此后，将需要收入跟上城市的增长。供水部门所取得的良好表现是由于未能对系统的改进和扩展。现在需要支出的支出是因为它被允许降低。”市长邓恩（Dunne）和奥尔德曼·斯诺（Aldermen Snow），亨特（Hunter），温德林（Wendling）和詹姆斯·J·麦考密克（James J. McCormick）宣布，不应从水收入中建造高压水工厂系统，直到给消费者获得所需的所有水为止。 Each of the aldermen said the people of their wards were complaining about a shortage of water. One said that the people in his ward would be satisfied to get water in the second stories of their houses, and it was impossible to explain to them why the city should give water to the people of the business district in the sixteenth story. He would let high buildings take care of themselves. “If the merchants and property owners of the loop district want the system they should build it themselves. The surplus in the water department should be used to increase the water supply.” It was added that the attorneys of big corporations threatened that, if their rates are increased, they will dig wells and get their own water. Mayor Dunne replied to that: “When it comes to furnishing them with water at four cents, when it costs the city six cents, I say, let them dig wells.”
Part of the old Record crossing pumping station is being replaced with the Turtle creek pumping station. The total length of the new conduit, which is being placed in position at the present time, is 3.400 feet and extends from Record crossing to a point just south of the Rockisland railroad tracks. The new conduit is forty-two inches in diameter, while the conduit that was taken up was thirty-six inches in diameter, ft is of California redwood, two inches thick.
