Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-18
THE NEW WATER MAINS
Col. Elliot's Report Of Operations Last
Month to Increase the Water Supply.

Col. Elliot's report OF operations during
October shows that S4l, ,96S.05 were expended
in that month on the new project for increas-
ing the city's water supply. This leaves an
available balance of S235, ,096. TO- During the
month there we're received 1, 800, ,402 pounds Of
cast-iron pipe, 9S,074 pounds of special castings
and one 4S-inch valve. Col. Elliot says: 'While
the contractors are now casting the pipe with
sufficient rapidity its delivery by rail continues
to be very unsatisfactory, and were it not for
the receipt by vessels serious delays in laying
the main would have occurred during the
month. The trench for the 4S-inch main has
been extended on street from 14th
street to New Hampshire avenue, a distance OF
2,5l2 feet; the Conduit road division was COM
menced near the distributing reservoir and
carried distance of l, ,S74 feet, and the George
town division was commenced at 30th street
and carried to High street, distance of 1,0S6
feet. In the Capitol grounds the trench for
the 30-inch main has been excavated distance
of LOSS feet. The work of laying the 4S-inch
main has has been continued during the month
road and the other on r street, while a third
has been laying the S0-inch main across the
Capitol grounds from New Jersey avenue and
b streets to East Capitol and LIST streets east.
CAUSES OF DELAY.
'The length of 48-inch main laid during the
month is about 4,740 feet and of 3O-inch pipe
SS2 feet. There has been much loss Of time
from rains during the month. The finding on
Il street between 18th street and New Hamp-
shire avenue of the the buried bed of an old
pond through which it was necessary to carry
order to reach a firm material on which to lay
the 4S-inch main, and the use Of the concrete
for supporting the main, which also found
necessary in part of the work, have caused a
still further delay.
THE WORK IN THE CAPITOL GROUNDS.
''The meeting of great number of pipes
under the roadway in the Capitol grounds,
Unexpectedly increased the time and expense
required for this work. l have, at the date Of
this report (November12), been compelled to
stop laying the 30-inch main at the east side
of the Capitol grounds, until the delivery of
the pipe and special castings required for
East Capitol street.
ON THE CANAL ROAD.
'The excavation at the distributing reservoir
for an arched gallery. or extension Of the gate
chamber. has been completed during the
month, and a force has been at work blasting
in excavating trench in the rock for the Sec
tion of the 48-inch main which lies on the
canal road between Foundry branch and Col
lege pond. portion of this rock is exceed
ingly hard, and as there is barely room for this
trench between the existing SO and 30-inch
MAINS which already lie under this narrow
road, on which mains the present suppy for the
city depends very great care is taken to guard
against accidents to them.
'The trench for the 48-inch main has been re-
filled and rammed for total distance of about
7,400 feet and for the 3O-inch main about 500
feet. The contractor for hauling away surplus
material has removed the extra earth from the
trench on r street from 4th to 18th.
DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER
it is proposed to continue laying both the 4s
and the 30-inch mains as the weather and the
receipt Of material will allow, to construct the
bridge across Rock creek which is to support
the main between the abutments of the M
street highway bridge and to construct the
gallery over the effiuent pipes outside the gate
chamber at the distributing reservoir"