Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-01-06
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WATER
| An additional water supply must be Sc
cured at once. There is nothing to be
| gained by delay, and on the other hand
| serious contiagration may be avoided by
| immediate attention to.this much neglected
| suDJSCGs Inns laS PCSiA 81 AottSS cSAoAS NV
public, and so thoroughly discussed, that
all can hope to do, is to give my notion
| of a proper solution of the question, with
| out claiming to advance any original ideas.
Lindley brook, Mad river and Chestnut
hill, are all situated to the east OF the city,
in the same general nelShoorn"od OF our
present supply: dlsmiSs these sources
as impractlcaole, II for no other reason,
than that they are used and have been for
years, to furnish water for seTeral factor
les. They have become almost necessity
| to them, and to acquire them for city pur
poses would take more money than we
have to spend Besides, an additional
supply should be absolutely independent
of our present system. IT one falls we
have the other, and we run less ehance OF
water famine. The only sources OF new
supply spoken OF Whlcn NIL THESE conul-
tlons are Hop brook ana Quassapaug !hey
lie to the west of the city, and are about
ten miles from the East Mountain supply,
thereby increasing our chances from ram
fall in dry seasons. Should any accident
happen to our eastern main we would be
independent OF IL. thlhk IL Is generally
conceded that we ought to go west for our
new sources, when brings the question
down to Quassapaug ana hop orooS. be
tween these TWO II Is imperative that we
decide at once.
For four years or more nave we con
sldered TINS matter with no result, ana To-
day we are on the verge OF water famine
Our present pumping 1acllltles are made
quate ana had the past summer peen an
unusually dry one, the quanty OF the water
furnished would have been unoearao!e.
Any accident to the machinery at the
pumping station might involve us IN much
distress. cannot therefore lose sight OF
the very great advantages oHereo IN the
teuassapauS source ny securing Prolhp1
l
thoflty e'c'' ana win lne proper "ctlNlty
on the part OF me nosr a OF water c1mtn!s-
sloners' II Is my oellet thaL we can De COZ
nected Win puasSSpaus ny january l,
1917. ms shlhA' cannot DC saiu OF any
other source YET susses' eo' ne" FsseF-
yours cannot De Gohs'F ucteo' cleahSu OUT,
!, filled and rehiled ready to supply drlnka'
1 bic water, under Two or three years. In
Quassapaug, We nave natural reser.
volr, tested by time, MED with water OF
unquesienea purify wnlch can De CON
nected with our present system just as
, quick as pipes can De lald Let me urge
! upon you this fact as being. IN our present
l critical situation, most important.
The storage OF seven hundred and
=. feet OF lts uePtn, Is FACTOR Oh lhSaicuiaole
value to us, ana we cannot anord TO over,
look 1t. ms Is three hundred and
= seventy six million gallons more than is
= computed for Hop brook, and two hun
u dred and sixty million gallons more
than Chestnut hlt and Llndley brook
combined. The daily average supply from
Quassapaug has never to my mind been
n fairly computed Tor the reason, that
a lake supplied by springs and water shed
!. and covering Two hundred and seventy
= tour acres cannot sh"" Ils dhhual ualiS
a average yield, from measurements made
a during July, August, september ana Octo
Der, four of the dryest months of The
IL. year, when evaporation Is greatest. Dur
ing the same months Hop brook, marrow
e shsded stream, scarcely six feet wide, ane
l. suffering practically nothing from evapor
+ alton, is compared with Quassapaug will