The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-04-25

Total ......I2-55 500 3942 I0-1
The average Tor the four month.
r December to March during the same
period has been:
1856 1867 1878 1855,
DIecem1er... % az 99}ss % 3
February. ...-I99 Cpl 30 81
March ........ , % 347 245 so
Total 5 80 p 10 p % AZ
The average rainfall for the same
months for fourteen years, from 1874 &c
1883, have been as follows:
l67l-SS 1850 l874-SS 1855
2ovs@5er s s g 3 46 65 W -. -.
j RSss%Ser t ! 3 1 g IS IS 1 %
March. n.y.. ; 20 50 $40 50
Total ...... 26.18 IO.n 1877 Al
In round numbers the rainfall during
! the last four months has been a trifle
! over one inch a month, as against a
! usual four and a quarter inches permonth
The results OF this dry weather are
| shown by the following statements Of
water supply:
| Not including the artesian wells the
water supply OF the city is obtained from
| the following sources:
NORMAL SUPPLY.
Makild, gallons per 81 hours .....1 600, 900
Kapenn Stream, gals. per "a hrs. 100000
Luakaha Stream, " - - q" 2,7OO,OOI
Hallway House Springs, gallons
per 2i hours. ....,...'.. .',...... 5000
Total. .......... ................ 5000, 900
SUPPLY ON FEBRUARY -, 1889.
Makiki, gallons per - hours - 1,44O
htapena Spring, gallons per p hrs. 100000
kapena Stream, .......
Luakaha Stream, " " D." 2,O58, 6l8
per ii hours ...-..,.. ..,....... 12o, 24O
Total. ............. ............ 2,S30, 29O
Decrease from normal supply 1,lo9 40
sgPPLY ON APRIL 3D. 1889.
Makiki, gallons per q hours ...... 2l6.OOO
Kapena Springs, gals. per "a hrs. As 1854
kapena Stream, - a. '' ...........
Luakaha Stream, gals. per "a hrs. i, 555 200
Hallway House Springs............ 343 ,44O
Total. 2, 1913 ,024
The increase in the Halfway House
springs at the last measurement is ac-
counted for by the excavation of the
springs, causing a large increase, but
not sufficient to offset the decrease from
other sources. About one-third of the
amount of water coming from the Lua-
kaha Stream at the last measurement was
from newly-eXcaVated springs situate
between Luakaha and the Pail.
OF the Luakaha and Hallway House
springs supply, about q, or say, $50, $50
gallons per "A hours, is used by water
right owners for taro patches in Nuuanu
Valley, leaving the actual available sup
ply for the city, only 1880, IA gallons
per "a hours.
The artesian wells have not been men
toned in the foregoing estimate, as the |
pressure from them is so slight that they |
are at present of but little assistance in |
supplying the city. Waikiki and, since |
the dry weather, a portion of King street |
have been supplied from this source |
with an inferior service.
With view to so far as possible tenn |
porarily remedy the short supply of !
water, test OF the pumping capacity of |
steam fire engine has been made,
water being pumped from an artesian
pipe leading to the Makiki reservoir. A
test OF 81 hours resulted in forcing So
go gallons into the reservoir. The
amount actually pumped was somewhat
larger, as taps all along the line of the
pipe We're opened. At this rate the cost
per day OF y hours will be:
Coal, > tons .........................$ $500
.......-'.......... GO
~'tOFNNA % . q. / 90
Oil, packing waste, lights, &c........ 800
$48.67
and the amount of water pumped viii !
be 157, 1888 gallons per II hours. The
above cost can be reduced by getting
coal at lower price, as it probably can
De, although that was the price which
had to be paid for the last Departure Bav
lump coal.
The amount of water can also be some
what increased by pumping into the
Nuuanu reservoir, as the elevation is less
han the Makiki, the former being 90
eet and.the latter 100 feet above sea
evel, and there Will consequently be less
pressure to pump against. The test was
made at Maklki on account of there
)elng fewer privileges on that line of ]
Dire, thereby giving a better opportunity
o measure results.
The shortage OF the water supply has
become so great thai during Il large Dor
ION OF each twenty-four hours a consid-
'rable part of the town is without water.
although all available sources of supply
re running into the pipes, and irriga-
ION has been reduced TO a low point {
ms has become source Of inconveni-
nee and loss, and is a constant menace
n case of fire.
1t is submitted that the severe
nd unusual drouth, reducing the
'ater supply to an almost unprece- I
ented degree, constitutes a public dis -
ster within the meaning of the Consti-
ltlon. That the only means of meeting
ne emergency is by pumping from the
rtesian wells in the manner above
escrlbed. That the legislative appro-
ration for the running expenses OF the =
honolulu Water Works is insufficient to l
az for such expense. .
The Privy Council is therefore re- p
uested, by virtue of the power given in t
rtlcIe ID OF the Constitution, to SANG ?
on the appropriation of $1,000. or so d
luch thereof as may be needed, for o