Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-30
NO LACK OF LIQUOR.
Better Facilities for the Lower South
side and Hilltop Wards
PROMISEDBY THE WATER COMPANY
A Twenty.Inch Main Will be Put Down on
the Hills Next Month.
THE TANKAGE ALSO TO BE INCREASED

1t will be good news to the Southside hill
residents to learn that in very short time
the possibility of another water famine,
now hanging over them like specter will
be obviated, and they will have plenty OF
water should pipe burst, and more than
plenty at other times. For some time past
the Monongahela Water Company has been
working on plans to increase the Southside
water supply at all points necessary, and
give its general system of pipes an over
hauling. The immense growth in popula-
tion on the hill has prompted it to make its
first Improvements in that section, and they
will be sweeping.
The main that now supplies the hill from
the hill pumping station at the head of
Twenty-second street is q ten-inch one,
which has heretofore served the whole hill.
Now the company intends to put down a
2O-inch main over the same route, from the
pumping station to the reservoir in
Allentown. This will give two mains
and increase the capacity nearly fve-fold.
The contract for the pipe has already
been let, and the contract for putting
it down will soon be given out, and work
commenced laying the new main some time
next month.
TANKAGE TO BE INCREASED.
The tankage capacity at Allentown will
be proportionately increased by series of
small tanks, so that should anything happen to
one, the others will still be ready to fall back
upon. The system will be generally extended
through Mt. Washington and DuQuesne
Heights, and with the increased volume, all
possibility of another scarcity in the West
Emo will be remeded.
After the 20-inch main is laid, the company
will put down 30-inch main from its new
pumping station to the reservoir at the head OF
Twenty-second street. which supplies the lower
Southslde, and from which the water is
pumped to the Allentown tanks. This will give
an increased capacity for supplying the lower
Southside also. The pumping capacity at each
station has been increased. and when the i'm
provements are finished the whole Southslde
Will have as good a supply of water as any Sec
tion Of the city, if not better.
WILL BE NEEDED SOME TIME.
Such a big increase will not be needed for
some time. but in putting down the 2O-inch
main the company is looking out for the future
growth on the hill. Should the population in
crease as it has in the past two years, the 20
inch main will be none too large in few years.
On the lower Southside the system of pipes
will be gradually extended and increased as fast
as the necessity is pointed out. so that every
section will be supplied with an abundance of
water for ordinary use, and in time of great
need all that is wanted. The water in the hill
tanks will have plenty of time to settle, and the
reservoir at Twenty-second street will be en-
larged later. or another added. so as to give
the Southside as pure water as possible.
The Improvements contemplated by the CON-
pany will cost over 500, 600 and that sum will
of the system, of which the plans are not yet
completed.