Third Pipe Line for Utica

Third Pipe Line for Utica

The laying of a pipe line six miles in length and the building of an equalizing reservoir at Marry will bring West Canada creek water to Utica, N. Y. This will give the city three separate supply heads. The latest, from Marcy Summit to the intersection of Champlain avenue and Whitesboro street, in Utica, will bring in 20,000,000 gallons of water, with a potential full pressure of 200 pounds. The new line is to connect with the conduit running from Hinckley, on Marcy Summit. It will he of 24-inch cast-iron pipe, weighing 0,700 pounds to a 12-foot length. It will be laid feet below the ground. It will make a 24-inch connection on the Toby Gulf road, thence rutting across fields and in Toby Gulf dips 100 feet at an angle of 45 degrees. It then is laid uphill to the 50-foot Yack Gulf. In each of these gulfs the sides are of crumbling shale and slate, which will render pipe laying a difficult task. Reservoirs may be built at the headwaters of the creek, running through these gulfs. Lent Gulf is another which causes the difficulties to be met with during the first 2½ miles of the pipe line's course. On the Watson farm will be built, not a storage, but an equalizing reservoir, with an area of about three acres and a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. Its banks will be of earth, and it will be fitted with gate chambers for intake and supply, and so constructed that the flow of the pipe can be turned directly through it at any time. From this reservoir will run about 20,000 feet in an absolutely straight line under railroad tracks, State road. etc. Where it crosses below the bottom of the barge canal tunnel there is a dip of 25 feet below the bed of the Mohawk river. Under the tracks of the New York Central railroad the Consolidated Water Company will be obliged to encase its 24-inch pipe in 36-inch pipe, so as to avoid a washout of the railroad’s bed if the jar of the trains should break the pipe. At that point the pipe line crosses beneath the Erie canal. Here, because there was water in the canal, a cofferdam had to be built and the great holes in the canal banks bad to be stopped with heavy walls of concrete. Opposite Champlain avenue on Whitesboro street the line will connect with the 20-inch main and will run along Whitesboro and Erie streets, and at the junction of these two mains will be set a pressure-regulating valve. This will be necessary. The equalizing ^reservoir will have a water level of elevation 870 feet about 450 feet above the level of the city where the line enters. Were it not for the pressure regulator the full head of 200 pounds would lie altogether too much for ordinary domestic plumbing.

The laying of a pipe line six miles in length and the building of an equalizing reservoir at Marry will bring West Canada creek water to Utica, N. Y. This will give the city three separate supply heads. The latest, from Marcy Summit to the intersection of Champlain avenue and Whitesboro street, in Utica, will bring in 20,000,000 gallons of water, with a potential full pressure of 200 pounds. The new line is to connect with the conduit running from Hinckley, on Marcy Summit. It will he of 24-inch cast-iron pipe, weighing 0,700 pounds to a 12-foot length. It will be laid feet below the ground. It will make a 24-inch connection on the Toby Gulf road, thence rutting across fields and in Toby Gulf dips 100 feet at an angle of 45 degrees. It then is laid uphill to the 50-foot Yack Gulf. In each of these gulfs the sides are of crumbling shale and slate, which will render pipe laying a difficult task. Reservoirs may be built at the headwaters of the creek, running through these gulfs. Lent Gulf is another which causes the difficulties to be met with during the first 2½ miles of the pipe line's course. On the Watson farm will be built, not a storage, but an equalizing reservoir, with an area of about three acres and a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. Its banks will be of earth, and it will be fitted with gate chambers for intake and supply, and so constructed that the flow of the pipe can be turned directly through it at any time. From this reservoir will run about 20,000 feet in an absolutely straight line under railroad tracks, State road. etc. Where it crosses below the bottom of the barge canal tunnel there is a dip of 25 feet below the bed of the Mohawk river. Under the tracks of the New York Central railroad the Consolidated Water Company will be obliged to encase its 24-inch pipe in 36-inch pipe, so as to avoid a washout of the railroad’s bed if the jar of the trains should break the pipe. At that point the pipe line crosses beneath the Erie canal. Here, because there was water in the canal, a cofferdam had to be built and the great holes in the canal banks bad to be stopped with heavy walls of concrete. Opposite Champlain avenue on Whitesboro street the line will connect with the 20-inch main and will run along Whitesboro and Erie streets, and at the junction of these two mains will be set a pressure-regulating valve. This will be necessary. The equalizing ^reservoir will have a water level of elevation 870 feet about 450 feet above the level of the city where the line enters. Were it not for the pressure regulator the full head of 200 pounds would lie altogether too much for ordinary domestic plumbing.