The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-09

The City Engineer Instructed 20 Make Ar
ransements TO Turn the Water I'm the Canal
Mt Bosher's Dam-The Committee on Water
Recommend a Rebate of wnter-Rents
A called meeting of the Common Council
was held yesterday afternoon 70 further
consider the water question. The following
members were present: Messrs. Clarke
(president), Campbell, Cole, Charles T. Da.
Wis, Edwards, Elicit, EllysoD, Ferguson,
Forester, Foster, HarRr0ye, Hayes, Hig-
gips, Hooper, straus, Tinsley, and Welsh
ger.
The clerk read the call. and also the re-
port OF the conference committee relative
10 their action on wednesday night, pub
lisbed in yesterdays Dispatch.
Mr.. Straus stated that before the confer
ence committee adjourned wednesday
night. the CITY Engineer was requested to
write out the report OF himself and associ-
ates made verbally to the committee as TO
the feasibility Of turning the water into The
canal at BosheI's dam. He would like to
know IL that report had been received.
The President replied that 1t bad not.
While waiting, Mr.. Charles t. Dsys,
| from the Committee on Water, under
suspension OF the rules, presented a re-
port recommending that the Council, IN
view OF the fact that the water.takers had
been deprived OF the use OF water for
comfortable period, order rebate OF one
months water-rent.
| Mr.. Higgins moved that the report be re-
committed, With the request that The water
Committee so modify IL as to make the re-
bate for the time for which consumers were
actually deprived OF the use OF wafer
Adopted.
Myers, and Mr.. Shirrefs came into the
Council chamber, and their report was
handed 10 the President. The following is
the report:
RIcaMoYD, Va, September I, 1881.
| TO the Conference Committee on Water Of
the Council of he City Of Richmond;
Genllemen,-In view OF the extreme low
water In James river-l0wer by more than
one half the volume found by any record
known of the river from gaugings-and
the immediate need OF the city TO incTelse
its pumping power, we recommend to you
10 accept the proposition made by the
Richmond and Allegheny Railroad Compa-
nv, through the mill proprietors, to draw
water into the canal from Boshers dam,
which would supplement the water drawn
from Grants dam, and TO suspend work at
certain hours BY the mills 10 enable water
to be drawn from the canal TO the city
works. This recommendation was based
upon the assumption that In twelve 10 iour-
teen DAYS the present consumption OF water
from the reservoirs wonld leave the daily
pumpaee less than the daily consumption (;
| but the Superintendent OF the Wafer
Works having officially informed you that
the present pumpage Is quite equai 10
the consumption, this has become
question OF propriety OF turning ON water
which would damage the city works, De OF
| little benefit to the mills, and with the hours
proposed add only about third to the pre-
sent pumpage.
TO provide for the contingency OF deh-
cheney in pumpage we believe 1t best tnat
the city should be in position to divide
time with the mills in the supply from the
canal, and therefore advise the preparation
for turning on this water at once.
Very respectfully,
W. Z. CUTsHAw,
f. T. ID. MYERS,
II, SHIRRgFFs,
Engineers.
The adoption Of the report was moved,
but Mr.. Straus offered as a substitute the
| following:
To carry out the recommendation OF the
special committee appointed to confer with
the Richmond and Allegheny railroad au'
tborifies and the manufacturers receiving
water.supply from the canal and blsin-
BE il resolved by the Council Of the City ot
| Richmond (the Board OF Aldermen concur
ringl, That the Committee on Water be In
s,ructed TO procure the turning into The
canal Of the water at BOsher's dam so soQp
as tbe Engineer OF the city can provide neces-
saw dams 90 protect the new pump.works,
| TO neriect which dams at the earliest possible
moment said City Engineer is authorized,
under direction OF the Water Committee,
10 employ at such rate OF pay as be shall
find necessary the largest force OF hands that
can be effectively employed therein pro-
yided the said canal leading from Boshers
dam shall not be opened until, by an agree
ment entered into by the respective parties,
all the legal rights OF the city, OF every cha
racter, shall be maintained in their integri-
ty: and provided, also, that the said parties
shall bind themselves that they will shut
down their gates for such a number OF
hours as will insure the city the control OF
the water 10 such an extent that a
greater qulntity OF water may be placed
| in the reservoirs than is now OBJ
| tanned. 1t is also further provided
that the city will retain to the Commit
tee on Water the power, at any time,
| TO resume all the legal rights Of the city and
TO recIose the said dam as 1t now Is at any
time that the said committee may deem ne
cesIary for the public good. And it Is still
further provided that the railroad company
will obligate itself 10 open the dam at
MaIden's Adventure in such manner as,
in compliance with its contracts with the
| civ as we'll as 10 the manufacturers, the
wafer therein stored may be used In ac-
cordance with said contracts. And all ex-
pepse incurred in carrying out the forego-
ing instructions shall be betrayed by said
Committee OH Water out OF any funds un-
der their control; the same amount where
of shall be refunded to the sccout from
which the same shall be drawn, either by
direct appropriation or by transfer from
other accounts, as to the Committee on FL
nance may seem best.
The resolution was adopted by the fol-
lowing vote:
AYKs.-Messrs. Campbell. Cole. Charles y. Davis
Edwards Kllett. Eyson, Ferguson. Forester, fos-
| Ter, Hargrove. Hayes, Higgins, Hooper, suausi
| Tinsey, Weisger, and Clarke.
| kORs.-NOne.
The Council then adjourned.
THE mozart LAST NIGHT.-Despite the
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