WATERWORKS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS
From Special Reports to FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING
Richmond, Va., is guarding the purity of its water.
At Caguas, Puerto Rico, a $27,000 aqueduct is to be built.
水在弗里蒙特,内布拉斯加州,太难a softener.
It will cost Savannah, Ga., $25,000 to improve its waterworks system.
The Waukesha, Wis., Water company is working for a thirty-year franchise.
Osceola, Ark., has completed arrangements for installing a waterworks system.
The West Allis, Milwaukee, Wis., system, which cost $60,000, has been completed.
The improvement and enlargement of the Ballinger, Tex., waterworks will cost $14,000.
A burst main at Los Angeles, Cal., caused a flood for over an hour and did considerable damage.
The capacity of the new pumping machinery at Monmouth, Ill., will be at least 500,000 gallons dailv.
At Port Gibson, Miss., Herschell Brownlee has been appointed superintendent of the water and electric light plants.
The O’Neil Engineering company, of Dallas, Tex., will build the $13,000 waterworks system at DeQueen, Tex.
Waukesha, Wis., and its waterworks company are engaged in a controversy. The company is seeking a thirty-year franchise.
The new waterworks plant at Frontenac, Kan., will be supplied from two wells. The plant promises to be in every way up-to-date.
Fred Bosch has purchased the stock of C. E. Gray, owner of the Whitewater, Wis., waterworks plant, and will manage the works himself.
塔科马市的当地报纸,洗。,前dicts that a water famine will occur during this coming season, unless a better source of supply is obtained.
A dispatch from Council Bluffs, la., says it is likely the city will construct a waterworks plant, unless the company owning the present works sells to the city.
The waterworks system at Hobart, Ala., will be extended by four miles. The mains will be six-inch, and a watertower of too.ooo-gallon capacity will be built.
By a break in the auxiliary intake pipe at C011neaut, Ohio, last week considerable trouble was caused by the water from the sewer hacking into the clear water well.
A 3,000,000-gallon pumping engine is to he installed at Joliet. Ill. It will replace the Holly engine, which has been in use for so many years that it cannot be relied on.
Joseph Hanreddy was the lowest bidder for building the first section of the southwest tunnel, running from Seventy-third and State streets to One hundred and third street, Chicago.
At Necnali, Wis., the annual appropriation for the extension of the waterworks has been increased from $2,500 to $3,000. The cost of tapping mains has also been increased fropi $ro.50 to $1350.
Reddick M. Ridgely, the superintendent of the Soringfield. Ill., waterworks, is one of the oldest residents of Springfield, Til., and under his management the department is “more successful than ever before.”
Harry H. Baird, of Pataskala. Ohio, has been appointed receiver of the Newark, Ohio, waterworks system. The difficulties of the water company were caused bv the city constructing its own plant.
The new waterworks system at Arcadia. Fla., will be supplied from a six-inch artesian well. The storage tank will be of 50,000-gallon capacity. Four, six and eight-inch mains will be laid and duplex pumps used.
The total cost of the contemplated improvements in the waterworks system of Winona, Minn., is about $75,000. They include duplicate engines and machinery for light and water, also two big wells. The work will be finished next fall.
T. Chalklev Hatton, of Wilmington. Del.. ha; been engaged as consulting engineer by the city of Pensacola, Fla. Among his duties will be to draw plans and get out specifications for the extension of the waterworks system and to supetvise the work.
死亡是宣布在布鲁克林,New York, of John D. Martin, C. E., formerly superintendent of the waterworks at Asbury Park, N. J. The deceased for a long time served as consulting engineer of the water department of Albany, N. Y.
If granted leave by the legislature, Baltimore will tloat a $5,000,000 loan to establish a storage reservoir in the Gunpowder district. The reservoir will be seven miles long and three miles wide, and a dam seventy-live to eighty feet high will he constructed.
At Badger Pocket, seventeen miles from Ellensbury, Wash., where water is almost unknown, so far as wells are concerned, has been struck a fine flow of water at a depth ot only twelve feet. Some wells have been sunk in the section to the extent of 140 feet, without striking water.
There is much dissatisfaction at the delay in furnishing the new 20,000,000-gal Ion pumping engine to Milwaukee. The contract was awarded the Brown-Corliss company, of Corliss, Wis., at $64,000. the engine to be delivered on December 1 last; but the time had to be extended to June 1.
William C. Crozier, deputy commissioner of water supply, gas and electricity for Brooklyn, New York, like Fire Commissioner O’Brien, Water Register Savage and so many other of the new municipal appointees in New York city, is a former newspaper man.
At Emporia, Kan., a larger pumping engine will replace one of those at present in use. The largest engine now at the pufnping station has a capacity of 1,250,000 gallons a day and the smaller _ engine about 1,000,000 gallons. One of the engines, however, has been in use for years, and is in had condition.
The Appleton, Wis., Waterworks company was enjoined by the city to prevent it from carrying out its threat to shut off the water, because the city refuses to pay hydrant rentals until Judge Webb renders a decision as to what shall be a reasonable rental. The company claims to have $21,000 due.
According to the city attorney of Omaha, Neb., the local waterworks company may be required to deposit a fund with the city clerk to insure that it will properly repair the pavements which might be torn up in putting in improvements or repairs. He recommended that the deposit be made with the city engineer.
The order for setting meters, which should have been followed by this time in Chicago, cannot go into effect, because the city has not any meters to set. Twenty-five per cent, of the 1,100 contracted for, which were to have been delivered on January 1, have not been delivered and are not expected before the end of the month.
Herman Weinert, who for nearly eight years has been the manager of the water system of Seguin, Tex., handling more than $60,000 for the city, has resigned, and Walter 11. Baxter has been elected to succeed him by the board of trustees, who entered in their minutes a very complimentary resolution as to Mr. Weinert’s services.
At Oxnard. Cal., the water pressure will be increased by the local waterworks company. The city will buy the extra pipe necessary, and the company will iay it and furnish the connections.
‘ The present pressure is only eighty-five pounds, and makes insurance very high. The new arrangement will provide a pressure of 205 pounds in case of fire.
At Cincinnati the waterworks commissioners have extended the time of the Keeling & Ridge contract for completing the settling reservoirs until October 1, 1906, provided they do $30,000 worth of work a month. As the sinking fund trustees declined to purchase the half-million new waterworks bonds, they will be advertised for sale. The bids will be opened January 30.
The annual report of the Kenosha, Wis., water department shows a profit of over $25,000 to the city. Kenosha has had a municipal water plant for the last ten years, and it has annually paid a handsome profit. Constant extensions of mains have been made, and water has been supplied to consumers ut a rate lower than is found in any other city in Wisconsin. In ten years the profits of the company have provided for the retirement of more than one-third of the bonds of the company.
It will take $7,000,000 to complete the intercepting sewers, build the southwest land tunnel and put in water meters at Chicago. The expense of the sewers will be $1,875,000; of the tunnel, which will be located in the southwest part of the city, $2,500,000. To put in service pipes at the public expense, install meters and make other improvements will take more than $2,500,000.
Yonkers, X. Y., is fighting against having the Hill View reservoir built within its limits. The proposed reservoir will form part of the new Catskill scheme of water supply for New York city. So far as he can, Bird S. Coler, president of the borough of Brooklyn, is backing the objectors. lie is opposed to the Catskill scheme and wishes to see Suffolk county used for the water supply of his borough.
The report of the experts employed by Lockport, N. Y., on the utilisation of that city’s water power, which will become available in K)oy, is prefaced by the statement that about 15.000 horsepower will he available at the points of application in this city, deducting losses in transmission from Lockport. When the Calumet district channel shall he opened, the horsepower will be increased to 22.000 net.
A dispatch from Pacific Grove, Cal., states that a “report is in circulation that the impounding of the flood waters of Carmel river has been decided upon by the Pacific Improvement company The necessary properties have been secured, and a reservoir will be formed on the upper Carmel by means of impounding dams. The cost, including flic conveyance of flu* water to existing res ervoirs is about $300,1×10.
The Williamsport, Pa., Water company has installed a new 5.000,000-gallon pump at its wells, making three installed, one 3.000,000 and two of 5.000,000 gallons each, has been completed and the big machine will receive its official trial today. The new pump draws from one entirely new well and also from old ones and gives the company now a pumping capacity of 13,000,000 gallons of the finest kind of pure mountain water per day when all are in operation.
The Irondequoit, N. Y.. market gardeners having finally determined to go ahead with the great project giving the Rochester and Lake Ontario Water company a franchise for the entire town, with a valuable contract besides to supply water at a good price per 1,000 gallons, “The Irondequoit.-rs (says the Rochester limes) should have paused and taken heed of the valuable franchise, practically a perpetual right, in otic of the most thriving, and perhaps the wealthiest rural distriet in the United States.”
At Streater, III., the Santa Fe Railway company lias gone to a great deal of expense to be prepared to supply its engines with water from its own plant. Two wells, each feet in depth, were sunk ; a concrete reservoir, fifteen deep and thirty feet wide, has been constructed; and an iron standpipe and engine and boiler room erected. Two boilers, each forty horse power, are used; also an engine of the same capacity, two pumps, each of fifty horsepower, and an air-compressor of sixty-horsepower capacity.
有史以来最大的水软化钢槽erected is now in operation in Pittsburg, Pa., at the plant of the Duqttcsne steel works, on the Monongahela river. Its capacity is 150,000 gallons of water an hour, it is softening 3.600,000 gallons of water dailv. The treating tank, which softens the water with the aid of soda ash and lime, stands fifty-seven feet high on a concrete base, and is forty-nine feet in diameter. It supplies three storage tanks, each of which is fifty-five feet hi eh and forty-five feet in diameter.
Eveleth, Minn., will increase its water taps, so as to place the water department on a paying basis. At present the service is charged for according to the number of rooms in a house, irresoective of the water used. Tt is intended to base the charge upon the number of taps. It is planned not only to make the department self-supporting, hut to make it pav the inteiest on the $50,000 bonds and eventually pay the principal. The city has agreed to sell water in the Fayal and other locations at the same rate charged in Eveleth. The increased consumption of water is almost necessary, as the minimum capacity of the plant is fifty gallons a minute more than the consumption.
