Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-03
An Important Work.

New Ravens Additional Great Water
 supply-Saltonsta1L Lalke-BufIdine ne the
 Golfer Dam, the Pump House and the
 Tower on the Bluf-VVork1ng on the |
 Great New Seven Million Gallon Reser- l
 voir Near Four Corners.
 The New Haven Water company are push | ing their work preparatory to the introduc- tion of water into the city from Lake Salton- stall, that immense additional source of sup
 ply. The foundations are laid for the pump house. They are located a short distance from the ice houses. The company is doing this work. The superstructure will be done
 by contract powerful engine will of
 course have to be added. This will come in September, probably The pump house will be high one story structure of brick. The piles are being driven for the coffer dam. The pumps will take water by conduit from | above the railroad crossing. The water of l the lake, as has before been stated in an arti- cle in our columns, is hardly surpassed for | fine quality in the United States. Mir. c. R. l Warehouse, whose extensive experience in his branch of business is we'll known, is en- l gagged in driving the piles for the coffsr dam. l This work will occupy week or more In ad- l dition to what has been done. The piles are l from thirty-five to forty feet long. The | piles will be sawed off ten feet under the sur face of the water For the work MT. Water
 house had to build scow out
 at the lake, the timber for which was carted
 from New Haven, 8 distance of about six
 miles. The introduction of scow upon the
 waters of Lake Saltonstall was great novel
 ty and the boys of that section stood with eyes wide open to see the new boat, no other
 craft from the days of the oldest inhabitants l and their arandfathers having rufaed the wa ters of the lake except the flat and round
 bottomed boats for rowing and fishing, ar
 occasional sailboat and semi-occasionally the shells and barges of old Yale.
 A tower or standpipe has been erected The standpipe is about finished. It crowns l the summit of the high bluff overlooking tn lake, and with the picturesque surrounding
 it requires no great stretch of fancy to com E pare it to an old Moorish tower.
 It is 27 feet high, and the bluff at thi poind is 40 feet high, making the top of tn stanipipe 167 feet above tide water. It i [ eight feet in diameter and will be enclosed
 with circular building of brick, which vii be p feet in diameter. It is novel addition 2 to the heights. It is erected to give sui s ficient head for sending the water pumpe' f from the lake to the great reservoi which is now being built about two and on . quarter miles distant oitywards, near Fou a ] Corners. The standpipe is of boiler iron an e built by F. c. & A. E. Rowland, of this city n The great supply main pipes are alread a laid from the lake over the hill. They are s inch pipes. The pumps will force the wate Q into the tower, having sufficient head u gravitate into the reservoir. The reservoi 6 will havs a capacity of 7,ooo.ooo gallons l. The work of building it has been begun. '- force of fifty men are now at work en tn important enterprise. The reservoir will
 completed before cold weather. This ve,
 important work for New Haven will l - pushed forward, and New Haven will ha,
 water from Saltonstall Lake next fall