穿越城市水和消防部门

穿越城市水和消防部门

Traverse City, Mich., is a progressive city of some 15,000 inhabitants, situated on Great Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. Superintendent W. S. Williams, of the water department, in his annual report just issued, makes the statement that 734,238,000 gallons were pumped and allowing 5 per cent, for slippage, there would be 697,527,000 gallons delivered, an average of 1,911,000 gallons daily. The largest day’s pumpage during the year was on August 2, 4,896,000 gallons pumped; the smallest day’s pumpage was November 18, there being pumped on that day 1,272,000 gallons. This year the department has installed sixty-six new taps, this being thirty-five more than installed last year, making a total of 2,410 taps. Ninety-six new meters were installed during the year, making a total of 1,328 meters now installed; 307 of these meters installed are set at the curb and the balance are in basements. No water main was laid this year, and the superintendent suggests that none be laid the coming year, unless absolutely necessary owing to the extreme high price of iron pipe. A new inventory was taken of the water mains now in the city and the following is a list of same in feet: 4-inch main, 9,835; 6-inch main, 106,455; 8-inch main, 6,989; 10-inch main, 7,806; 12-inch main, 7,806; 12-inch main, 6,332; 16-inch main, 6,887, making a total of 144,304 feet, or 27 miles of main. There are a total of 161 street valves from four to sixteen inches in size. There are 265 fire hydrants in the city. The intake pipe was inspected by a competent diver; one small leak was found and repaired. The chlorine plant is doing excellent work, the open tank or gravity system being used. In the daily tests, the water was found to be pracctically pure. When taken into consideration that the operating cost of this department for 1917 is $4,995.65 in excess of 1916 owing to the increased cost of coal and other supplies, and that the plant still shows a net profit of $6,648.99, speaks well for the efficiency of its management. The installing of the meter system until the same is completed is recommended in the report, and as the extra cost of collecting the delinquent water tax is about $12.00 per quarter, it is further recommended that a penalty of 10 per cent, be charged delinquent customers to offset expenses of collecting the same.

消防元帅T. C. Murray报道说，该部门在大火上回应了68个警报和27,000英尺的软管，损失为25,450.00美元，保险的损失为146,600.00美元。损失的保险为$ 121,150.00。财产濒危的价值超过$ 1,000,000。这一年中的每场火灾都局限于其开始的建筑物。一年中，任何一场大火最大的损失是州立医院洗衣房，总计12,000美元。去年2月的水果交换仓库大火和董事会湖上的霍普金斯大冰屋大火，这使这一年的损失造成了沉重的损失。酋长进一步说：“我不能对我们的汽车设备说太多，这是该部门的一个很好的补充，直到现在，这在各个方面都取得了成功。别克化学物质已经处理了几乎所有较小的火灾，从而使损失保持在损失更大的地方。”穆雷酋长说，手头的物业如下：三匹马，两辆组合货车，三个雪橇，一辆锻炼货车，四个软管车，一辆梯子卡车，六梯，6,000英尺2J4英寸，40英尺，50英尺30英寸软管，2个Ahrens Fox消防车，连接等，一辆别克汽车化学品，一辆凯迪拉克汽车软管卡车。