Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-10
FAcrs ANp FIauREs.
A Correspondent Objects to HoI
 Brook and Quassapaug As Water

 A Correspondent ObJects to Hop
 Brook and QuassapauR As Water
 Supply.
 Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
 Your articles upon the water question express my views exactly. l am opposed to going to either Hop brook or Quassa- paug to obtain water and can find all all the argument needed right in the books of the commissioners.
 Let us take from the report as fol lows Lowest yield for one day by guag- ing from July to November 1, 1889, Hop brook, 649,0O0 gallons; Quassa- paug, 61 ,560 gallons, From this may we not conclude that at certain time between July and November in each year the city would have to depend on 648, ,000 gallons, and the estimated cost of getting this from Hop brook would be S240, ,00O. At present we need an addi- tional supply of over million gallons day, which is being pumped from the Mad river. After this debt would be settled on the citizens then the cry would be-On to 1Quassapaug. Then also between July and November the city would have to depend, accord ing to tabulated report las be- Ions, at an estimated cost, as set forth in report, of $430, ,664, or both sys- tems combined would only give to the city at a certain time of the year 709,- 560 gallons at first cost of $670, ,664. In the report it is recommended that application be made to the legislature | for right to secure any other streams in Litchfield county, clearly showing that Quassapaug and Hop brook would not give sufficient supply for the future. | We are also told that over a million 1 gallons of water has to be pumped from
 Mad river to meet the demands of the
 city to-day in conjunction with ouI
 present reservoirs. Then if we have the supply from Hop brook and Quassapaug together, viz 709 ,560 gallons, it would only supply our present wants, and al the immense first cost of $67O,644 We
 are getting about million gallons and over from Mad river to-day at cost of S25 per day, and if there was a pipe laiC for half mile from the Mad river be
 hind Cornelius Rutter's house, north o
 the tannery and Southington road, tC
 the present pumping station, the wate
 would flow of itself into the city, and
 consider the elevation sufficient to cause
 the water of it's own gravity to reach t' such height in the city as to suppl,
 three-fourths of the citizens. Le any one stand at the cerner of Eas Main street and the Southington roat and look down East Main street ant they will be able to form an idea of tn height, and certainly the surface of tn river at the point we mention is as high Z at least. But the descent of the Ma , river from it's sources is so great tha reservoirs could be made at neigh 5 hundreds of feet above even the highes
 ridges around Waterbury. Why, evel at Rutter's plating mill if 10 feet wer added to the dam consider it that woul ;; be nearly as high as Cook street resel voir. And this point is mot more thal . 2f miles from the main pipe atItheE pres 2 ent pumping station, Jss.a VT .s-!lg af1u Gentlemen. members of the counc ' and board of aldermen, please examin . closely into the facts. You are, chosel
 fully after their interests. It is a seriou
 matter, this contemplated outlay. Tn c people are trying to build themselve
 houses. Do not put upon them a ta V for water greater than their other taxes |, In fact, if the water was taken froE l. Mad river the water rates could be yer low and still give revenue to the cit d after few years.
 d There has not been a report given as r. Mad riv CT as a water supply. And yG z, it must be admitted that it could y made an inexhaustible supply. Tn e unused water that flows past our cit s through that river during the days, tf r. nights and Sundays, if stored, woul
 supply the wants of city of hundred ,t of thousands of inhabitants, and there n no other river in this section that afforC d SO many and so favorable opportunitil ,e of storage all along it's route. 4a .-s soi..l Q Why not the city authorities have T talk with the mill owners and 6 if son ,r understanding could not be come to b
 fore loading the city with a debt ( ,o $670, ,664 for 709,560 gallons of wat' ~ ar flow in dry weather, as per tabulate h report.
 dd In twenty years this would amour .a u with interest added, to S,207 ,195 n, o cnnntinu cnmnnund interest.