Water-Works Reports.

Water-Works Reports.

Twelfth annual report Water Commissioners, city of Amsterdam, N. Y., May, 1893. James R. Snell, president ; John J. Christman, secretary; Middleton Warwick, treasurer ; A. H. De Graff, superintendent and engineer. Receipts for sale of water, $42,024.29. Of this amount $8,207.25 was received for water sold by meter measurement. Construction account increased during the past year $4985, land and land damages, $7,499.05. Two hundred and forty-nine fire hydrants, twenty-four miles water mains, 308 gates. The storage reservoir is not large enough, water wasting over the spillway all of the year. The Haus brick conduit was shut off for three days, in which to make needed repairs. The water in reservoir was lowered three feet at once, thus showing the wisdom of enlarging the reservoir. The extreme cold weather of the past winter necessitated the use of the water of Little Round lake. Two thousand one-hundred and fiftytwo services in use.

Water Board, Brookline. Mass., to January 31, 1893. Z. R. Forbes, registrar and clerk ; F. A. Forbes, superintendent. Seventeenth annual report. In February, 1892, the special committee on extension of the water-works reported favorably on providing a covered reservoir on Fisher Hill, an enlargement of the low service pumping station, a high duty pumping engine, and a second twenty-inch water main. The improvements and extensions were approved at the town meeting, and appropriations made for the completion of the works. The reservoir and addition to low service pumping station is now complete. A contract for new pumping engine is made with H. P. Allis Company of Milwaukee, Wis., and A. H. McNeal & Co. of Burlington, N. J., for new twenty-inch water main. An increase of service connections during the year of 174 ; 889 water meters in use. The payment of rates by the meter system is popular. The meter system is increased during the year exceeding that of previous year by fifty-seven meters. The quality of water unexceptionally good. All of the buildings and stand-pipes in good condition. Miles of high and low service water mains, 52^ ; 338 fire hydrants ; 2236 service connections.