Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-12-10

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PROGRESS OF THE WORKS.
Situated as this lake will be at the
mouth of Santa Fe canon, affording de-
lightful view across the valley to the
Wales mountains, the location is all that
could be desired as a pleasure resort
The company will further beautify it by
planting an orchard, and with the acre
ating fountain in full play will make
spot of comfort and beauty for a days
pleasure.
But to come down to hard business
facts, the dam will impound 150,000,000
gallons or 2O,OOO,000 cubic feet of water
This will afford an ample supply for
domestic purposes and garden irrigation
The reservoir is so arranged that no
rolled or muddy water will enter the sup
ply basin, as will be explained later, but
it will be filled only from the pure, clear
melted SHOWS of the early spring. This
arrangement insures both quantity and
quality.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE DAM
itself is all the most hypercritical could
desire On the base it will be 300 feet
thick of well puddled clay, fine and
smooth in texture. This will be rein
forced with core of triple sheath piling
set in bed of pure cement of tested
tensile strength of 500 pounds to the
inch. This cement with its thrice broken
joints of sheathing Will almost totally
stop seepage, but every precaution has
been taken to prevent accident, and be-
yond this core along the lowest line of
the bed rock is to be laid natural drain
of loose boulders so that whatever water
trickles through the dam will be carried
off in an orderly manner, and emptied
into the main ditch.
THE SOLID BEDROCK
o the canon is to be cleared and the dam
will rest on this substantial floor, and in
the deepest part of the canon the supply
pipe will be laid in q masonry tunnel
| eight feet in diameter, which will end in a
water tower about 100 feet high, so ar
ranged that water may be drawn off
through it at any desired hight, so that the
city will always be supplied with the best
and purest water. Below the dam, and at
the head of the supply pipes and ditch,
will be receiving basin whose surface is
sixty feet below the water surface of the
dam, and the gravity pressure will be
utilized to thoroughly spray the water
before delivery.
In every dam the question of safety
arises. In this case it has been more
than satisfactorily answered. The writer
has personally examined nearly every
dam of note in this country, and believes
the security of the Santa Fe reservoir
SUPERIOR TO ANY.
The canon shoals gradually on its
southern side, and at the extreme south
crn end of the dam where the water, nc
matter what the rage of the flood, viii
come quietly and gently, is to be con
structed notable spill-way. 1t will be
constructed in arch form, the toe point
ing into the water. 1t will be 300 feet or
the chord of the arc and have radius Of
$50 feet. On both sides the revetmen
and apron will be very gently sloped, sc
that the flood water will be poured
easily into a ditch connecting with thu
Rio Santa Fe. The weir of this spill
way will be ten feet below the crest of thu
dam. But SO as to
TAKE NO CHANCES
against cloud bursts, tunnel with al
automatic flip or bursting gate is to b.
constructed from the site of the arcl
dam of the old reservoir, SO as to dis
charge the flood water below the new dan
site This tunnel will also be utilized il
times of muddy water to carry it ava.
from the reservoir.