The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-15 00:00:00

Mr. IlonNny wished to direct the .
to pale 21 of the Report, wherein it w

ttention of the Council
stated "We recom-

mend for serious consideration the expediency of increasing
in any event the powers at this station, to the extent of at least
one million gallons daily, as a low,' time will inevitably elapse
before a new supply of water on a large scale can be brought to
bear upon the town." Now whether they adopted the plan of
Messrs. Simpson and Newlands, or the Rivington Pike Plan,
it would be necessary if possible to have their immediate
supply increased at Green Lane as much as possible. That he
had no doubt might be done to some extent by the means
proposed, and if it were done, it would afford additional se-
curity to the town, and comfort to the inhabit-

or the ptesen
ants. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Nrcot.—Can you extend these works with the money
raised under the provisions of the existing Water Act ?

Mr. TINNE asked whether, under their existing bills, they
bad the power to extend their works in a lateral direction be-
yond their own ground at Green-lane ?
The TOWN-CLERK thought not.

Mr. COOPER agreedwitTthis resolution. It had always been

working at an enormous outlay, and that their abandonment
would be productive of great good. If they put down an addi-
tional engine at Green lane they might do so with every pros-
pect of success.
Mr.

tOBIN enquired win., would be the additional quantity
of water gained by this additional outlay of .t,110,f00 ?
Alderman PROCTER.—One million gallons per day.
taking into consideration the additional mains ar
pipes which must necessarily be bad here under an•

That is

Mr. PARKER observed that Mr. Simpson was the engineer
who had sunk the well at Green-lane, and he could tell them
that that well had yielded much more water than he (Mr. S.)
had ever anticipated ; and, as the capability of the well was
known to the Council, he need not dilate upon it. If they got
-their duplicate engine at work there, and all the necessary
pipes and other matters properly arranged, there could be no

hey could supply tktawri with a very much

faci, (hiring the three triOnth's in ft

were pumped to waste every day—were, in fact, turned down
the brooks adjoining the works. (Hear, hear.) It was, in his
opinion, unfair to charge the increasd quantity of the million
to bederived from these works with the ..'110,090 expenditure,
inasmuch as the duplicate engine, they all knew, was to be

built in any even

in fact, their -were all well aware that such

an improvement was necessary under any circumstances.
(Hear, hear.) They should only charge the additional pipes
required for distrihution against that item.
Mr. NrcoL thought that Mr. Parker was in error when he
talked so fluently of the capacity of the Green-lane Well yield ;
for, on looking at Mr. Hocking's report, in the appendix at-
tached to that of Messrs. Simpson and Newle- ' `•ev would

find that the engine had already reduced the mite; inVthe well
considerably. (No, no, no.) Yes, they would find that the
present engine was quite sufficient to pump all the water in the
well; for they would find that on Monday the water WAS 68
feet in the morning, and only 62 feet 6 inches on the evening of
Saturday.
Mr. HARD° RD.—Take Tuesday.

Mr. NICOL.—WeII, then, on Tuesday the water in the morn-
ing was 62 feet 6 inches, and in the evening 62 feet, still shew•-

Mr. HAnnoitn.—What quantity of water was delivered on
that day, compared with the decrease in the depth of 6 inches?
Mr. Nicol. read—" One million, one hundred and sixteen
thousand, seven hundred and fourteen gallons." But when
they came to take the Saturday following they would find the
same result in depth, (that was CI feet in the morning., and CO
feet 6 inches in the evening,) with a delivery of 535,003 gallons
in the day.

Mr. HOLY' apprehended that if it were not compulsory on
them to make this.outlay on the Green-lane works just at pre-
sent, that there would he no difference of opinion as to tile
propriety of passing the resolution.

11061 E thought that the only question was as to
the portion of the etio,thoovvhich was intended to be expended
presently, as with regard to the new engine at Green-lane, the
old Water Committee would have brought that proposition be-
fore the Council. He thought that the public and the Council
were running a great risk in not having another engine there
immediately. He apprehended, however, that the expenditure
of this £llO,OOO was not for Green-lane alone, but also for
Hotham-street and the repairs of the mains. Hei thought that

it would be injudicious to.go and lhy out the £iii,o7oZiOnCe,
because if they found, that by putting down a new engine at
Green lane their expectations were answered, it would be
likely that they would abandon some of the present stations.
Mr. BENNETT confirmed what had fallen from Mr. Parker
with regard to the engine at Green-lane pumping so much wa-
ter more during the experiments than was served to the town
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HARBORD begged the Council to remember that Mr
Hawksley's scheme involved the expenditure of
for a supply of only eight million gallons per diem,
this estimate the expenditure of laying the new set of main_
necessary to thetown, no matter what plan was eventually car-

.e 450,000
I that in

raea ens, was not incated. (Hear, hear.) '1 his 4110,000 in-
cluded an expenditure necessary to the town, whether they
adopted the Green-lane and the underground scheme, or whe-
ther they brought the water from Rivington or from Bala.
He begged the Council also to bear in mind, that with the
present set of mains there was a large quantity of water run
to waste every day, without blame being attached to either the
committee or the engineers—(hear, hear, and ironical applause)
—because the mains were bad. It was in evidence that they

had many miles of bad n
quently much of the water ha

s in this town,
me to cast

Lni of me

would be usetnl, no inatteiwli

Mr. R. C. GARDNER felt convinced, that if this pro.

carried vigorously into e

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