Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-09-30
Water-Works..
Year by wear it becomesre

w dter. WORKS.
Year by year it becomes re a
parent that Charleston mugeoIai
from some source. a suppl PGl
| and wholesome water adS1e II
the present and prospectiY aaes s.
/ a great city. II is q matts " &c =.
taiely demands The most y y y
Il sciAntifis consid deratioif T. 80 SUI
4 as the best and most econSsa pla
shall have been determinsRon' u
time should be lost and Epens
should be spared in carry It INT
effect. Charleston is SO sifo as I
render the problem of wssupp,l
one of peculiar difficulty sAnd te t5e
that very reason the subSIsnoul u,
be Increasingly agitated tll tn
comparative merits of $evers
projects already mooted, Wnic J,
satisfaction Of the communi Mean
time it will be interestinnd IN
structive to note how q cltle
have dealt with the waterestlor
The introduction of wateTo cltle
through aqueducts or coq PIPE:
is a system of modern orSln TN
country. Many Of the olfeader
of the Ncaus G Courier mTemem
her tbe time when there mo cit,
in the United States suppHn thu
way. ButSone by one thsat cen
tres of population have com
PEELED to abandon springs slls AM
cisterns in favor of put water
works.
Philadelphia, az far as ire abl
to learn, was the first IN tn
country to seek a supHhrougl
pipes. She completedIoder
works in l779, the reservf whlcl
was in the centre of the On Penl
square. In 1872 she begae Fair
mount Works, and in ISHs sys
tenn was completed with teautItu
reservoir which stands q bed o
rock, and covers four acrFlth ne
o-her elevations nec" it, ahses ONT
hun1red feet above ne q There
are now four distinct ping sta
tions, which altogether throw
$4,000, of gallons cater PEI
day into the reservoir. FIT their
water from the Schuyll which
lovely stream IS pretty Ytaxed tt
SUPPLY them at some sps. In
deed, the supply in thammer o
1874 was scant, and rathhclinec
to bad odors. So we ! it thai
Philadelphia will have look tx
some other source of sui to mee'
the growing wants of hdople..
After Philadelphia, Virginia
cities were amongst the to build
water-works. Lynchbupmp pletec
her small works in 1929, reservoil
being on the hill. Ricnd com
menced her water.worksf0ct
1880, and had them in Eration IL
March, 1882. They wabullt by
Albert Stein. a German faulic en-
cineer OF distinction. hlso bull
the works in Lynchburh hd engin
eered the works in PeteFg, which
were built about the san me. The
works in Richmond habeen frou
time to time improved, 7 now are
;tuour TO rec I'VE An aSUTT at tit
cost of about $5OO,o0The new
reservoir will hold abou 0, 100000
gallons.
New York began her on water
works later. They wer,mmencet
in 1885 and completed s42. Tht
croton aqueduct surpass, i modern
constructions of its kindt is forty
and one-half miles long feet nine
inches wide at the bottoland sever
feet five inches at the sging line
of the arch, and eighst five anc
one-half inches high. capacity is
equal to ll5,O0O,000 pms daily
The aqueduct is supp from the
Croton River, where a raises the
water forty feet, and wi the water
thus damned in is ed Crotor
Lake. An immense sur is drained
into this lake; but the lpression il
that New York will, ime not long
of, have to resort to d sources O.
supply.
Boston is very fnelypplied from
Lake Cochltuate, twe1 miles dis
tant, through a brick hduit. The
lake covers $50 acresnd drains &
surface Of l4,4O0 acre The reser
voir at Brookline, neapston, covers
IS acres, and holds 100000 gal
Ions. A new reserY located al
Brighton and Newton is a capacity
Of 10000 900 galloi and covers
l25 acres of ground, a on the bank
Of the reservoir therea fine drive
sixty to eighty-feet te. Sunbury
River will be connect with the new
reservoir. The wateEorks of Bos.
:on thus far have ost-9,O87,50O.
Cincinnati and LoUille get theil
water from the OhiqSt. Louis anc
New Orleans from |; Mississippi
md Nashville from t Tennessee.
Chicago has the nt unique sys
EN- for water supplyas we'll as one
If the best in the Ued States. Il
S tunnel built fro the shore tt
wo miles into the lal At the shore
t is pumped into the reservoirs. In
dependent of this shn mas several ar
esian wells from 81 feet to l, ,64(
eet in depth. Oneif them yields
100 gallons per mine. The water
nswers very we'll r a number o
hings. But it is Objectionable OF
ccount of its soliA otents, amount
ng to seventy grainl 1t has twenty
our grains of sulpiric acid to th
allon of water, whs the lake wate
as only eight. T. latter is fine
nd to avoid pollutis the lake. th'
ewage of The city, carried offg
he Illinois River bh canal ninS
* miles long. 1t ID canal for ri
alton, but it is mae to answersa1s,
s sewer. The be of the canal i
ight and a half fee below low wate
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