供水项目。

供水项目。

The Richmond (Va.) Times complains that it is “a great deal of trouble to boil water before drinking it." Then don’t boil it. Run it through a sausage cutter as they do in Jersey City.

The site for the Cambridge (Mass.) new reservoir has been chosen after careful examination of all convenient sites in the vicinity of Cambridge. The reservoir will be built on a lot of eleven and one-half acres, which belonged to the tract of the Payson Park Land Company, situated about one and one-half miles from Belmont, and which originally was a part of the Cushing estate. The land was taken by right of eminent domain, and the damages assessed by a commission appointed for the purpose. The city contemplates two reservoirs, or rather a single double reservoir, with a total capacity of 50,ooo.ooo gallons, and a main pressure of sixty pounds. The reservoir w ill occupy about seven acres of the property and the rest will be laid out in a park. A forty-inch connection pipe will he run from tlie pumping station at least Cambridge to the new reservoir, by which it will be supplied with water. The cost of the new property is not yet certain. At the last meeting of the Cambiidge water board the city engineer was instructed to prepare plans and specifications preparatory to receiving bids upon them. The reservoir will undoubtedly be built by contract, and the estimated cost is about $3. The land is valued by the city at about $30,000, but the owners hold it at a much higher figure. A just estimate for the new plant completed is about $350,000. The work may be begun this fall, but it is probable that much will not be done until the spring. When all is completed Cambridge’s water supply will be equaled by few and excelled by no city in the State.