WATER SUPPLY
特蕾西的律师事务所,作为counse Boardman &普拉特l for the estate of the late Edward Freel of Brooklyn, has filed a claim against the city of Brooklyn for $206,118,74.claimeed to be due as a balance on work done on the aqueduct east of Rockville Centre. The estate has already received nearly $1,000,000 for the work. After its completion the reservoir would not hold water; but the Court of Appeals allowed Freel over $800,000, because he had simply followed specifications, and, therefore, could not be held respons.ble. He was then diiected to make the reservoir watertight, and the present claim is for supple mentary work extending over several months. The reservoir, however, still leaks and cannot be made to hold water.
植物水在Clearwa工作ter Harbor, Fla.,proposes to obtain a new water supply from a nearby lake.
The improvements to the water works plant at Battle Creek, Mich., will cost $50,000.
Hudson, S. Dak., will probably build water works.
The water supply at Laredo. Tex., is to be improved.
The old plant of the late Burrell Water Company,olNew Kensington, Pa., now owned by the Mellons, of Pittsburgh, l’a., is being thoroughly overhauled, enlarged, and improved at a cost of $100,000. Cast iron pipes will replace those of wrought iron and a 5,000,000-gallon reservoir will be built at Valley Camp, where there is now only a large water tank.
Conneautville, Pa., is likely to have a water works, to be built by a private company.
Several parcels of land have recently been acquired by the Croton aqueduct commissioners—some for the purpose of providing for the sanitary protection of the sources of this city’s water supply. Nearly $200,000 was paid out.
At the request of the town council, the board of health of Montclair, N. J., has appointed its inspector, and a member of the board, a committee to establish a standard of purity for water in the contract about to be made with the East Jersey Water Compauy.
The water rates of Quincy, Mass., are to be considerably reduced from January 1, 1898.
The stock for the proposed water works system at Sauquoit, N. Y., is being taken rapidly. It will cost between $6,000 and $7,000.
The committee on water of the Worcester, Mass., city council has been instructed to investigate into the advisability of purchasing additional land at the Paxton and Arnold reservoirs so as to protect the water from pollution
A large dam, to be one of the greatest in America, is being built on Rondout creek, at the head of Honk Falls, near Eilenville, Ulster county. N. Y. It will impound a quantity of water second only to that held by the great dam in the Connecticut at Holyoke, Mass. Phis water power however, will be much greater than at Holyoke, as the fall from where the water will enter the penstock at the head of the dam to where it will be discharged into the Rondout again, after being used will be 146 feet. Power will thus be available for at least seven levels, if it is found desirable to build mills on as many levels. The minimum power at low water will be 20,000 horse power; at high water, 70.000 horse power.
There is a movement in Waterville, Me., towards buying the water system there. It is claimed it would be a very paying investment.
Another eel stops the way. This time it was in the Morse office building in Nassau street, this city, where there had been a scarcity of water for two weeks. The eel’was three feet long and two inches in diameter and had got lodged in the supply pipe.
The water franchise for Sitka, Alaska, will probably be gr nted to Adolph Fiest. of San Francisco. Cal.
Many new hydrants are being set at Holyoke, Mass.
Mount Kisco, Westchester county. N. Y., is discussing a new water works systems for which eight miles of main will be required.
Watervliet, N. Y., may have a mechanical filtration plant built. The daily consumption is about 2,000 000 gallons.
The water board of Albany. N. Y., has awarded the contract for laying the forty-inch steel pipe from the pumping station on Quackenbush street to the proposed filtration beds on the flats north of the Lumber district, a distance of 8,000 feet or considerably more than a mile to the firm of Hilt. Johnson, Fitzgerald and Mulderry of that city. The bid of the firm was $76 723 05, more than $2,000 less than the bid of the nearest competitor. The other bids received were as fodows : Michael J. Daily, Brooklyn, 878,813; George Fruh, Brooklyn, $83,4170; T. A. Gillespie Company, New York, $83,665; Hughes Bros. & Bangs, Syracuse, $83,899; Quayland & Higgins, Albany, $172,985; McDonough ⅛ Cunningham, Troy. $97,225 The work is to be completed by April 15, 1897. The pipe will be laid on a concrete bed four feet below the surface of the canal.
