Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-10
THE VISIT TO HOP BROOK.
The Proposed Plan to Secure Water
 Gains Favor.

The Proposed Plan to Secure Water |
 Gains Favor. |
 Eight hacks containing his honor the mayor, the members of the council and board of aldermen, city engineer and his corps of assistants and representatives of the press left the square before City hall at D. m. Saturday and began an uphill
 ride to the designated point of attraction, Hop brook. What might have proven in any other season of the year an enjoy able and pleasant drive was on Saturday
 a dreary and cheerless ride. The cold winds whistled through the tree tops, and shrieked a welcome to the honored body of citizens who were favoring them with a visit A half hour sufficed to bring the searchers after water to the objective point. On first appearance the sight Is not an encouraging one. but as the va rious advantages are pointed out by com potent judges the view becomes more pleasing and the plan of work clearer. | No more favorable basin within radius l of twenty miles could be found which would contain the numerous advantages l of Hop brook. Eighty acres of ground would constitute the proposed reservoir proper. The purchase of this amount of l land from it's eight owners would be a
 certain necessity. The advantages as a
 person gazes at the proposed sight and examines the lay of the land are many and beneficial. A good stream Of clear water which has its source from many springs winds its zigZag course down ln- to the basin and clear as crystal pre- sented the first advantage to the as sembled body. A good watershed of two
 and one half square miles will continu ally supply the basin with sufficient water. Another advantage is that if the sight is secured the present bed ot the stream lies within two miles of Quassa
 paug lake and if so desired a course coult
 be taken to bring both waters within
 radius of three-fourths of mile, ant thereby connect both streams. But ther 2 will be no necessity for such an action, l the statistics and figures of ouf. cit, l engineer are correct. A dam of 36 : feet in length with a proportional e height and thickness will enclose bod.
 of good water which cannot be surpasse' : as to purity or amount, In the dryes g season of the year in 1885 from survey a taken then 400, 400 gallons of Wate e flowed into the basin every A hours an l. the estimate places the amount a 0 2.0O0,0OO gallons daily. When tn
 reservoir is full it will contain 4, ,0O0 O00 .- 900 gallons. It will have depth of Q feet at tine dam and an average of 16 fee V throughout. The course to be taken t l., bring the water to the city will be flrs @ northeast, then in direct line southeast # Now to see the matter clearly and realiZ F, the advantages of such a reservoir, let U compare the numerous benefits to be ds r rived from the expenditure of tn V. amount of money asked for the under ~ ~ taking. We have now in the city resel t9r yoir 9O,000, ,000 gallons of water. Tn soiEcity consumes daily 1,500,000 gallons insiI Is1f would take but sixty days to consum
 FRe entire amount. The present seaso Phhs been an unusually wet one and tn is sam olt}ats of; water much larger than tn :: T}ssE1 13ir,w liffplobably ever again col J. taia.-ssi|,TI:.h population of the city g adilasSinenaas -and the amount ( n water .haIH steadily decreasing h Something inlist Bes done to improve or d water facilitiesSand- hefet is the chance
 the facts and f18unes given above can @ conclusively pfoSenas | .s: s