The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-10

gain JnlS by increasing Inc capacity
of the present reservoir system at an
estimated cost of
No. Reservoir at +. l.. Sta
ton, to 81 millions ..... =. $22 10000
No. Reservoir at Luakaha,
to 80 millions. ........ ......... 100000
$3S, 10000
and by "making q start" as it is
termed, on a large storage reservoir in
upper Nuuanu Valley, for which
complete survey has been made and a
report on page 2l9, Minister of Inter
Or's report; the proposed reservoir
when completed will contain some $40
millions of gallons of water, at an ell
ovation of 1920 feet above sea level,
the dam will be some sixty feet in
height at its highest point and the Cs-
timated cost of completed reservoir is
$75, 100000 and time OF completion from
II to Is months.
To make a start on the new storage
reservoir will absorb at least One-half
| of the total estimated cost, or $751;,
10000, add estimated cost of increasing
capacity of existing reservoirs, $685.
10000, making n total of $76,000.00
and not less than 10 to - months
time to complete and put in working
| order.
The second suggestion that appears
in the report of the Minister of the
Interior, page 131, is that ofpumping.
This is entirely within the reach of
the Government as to price, and pro-
poses to utilize great subterranean
store of water already filtered in Il
most perfect manner and titfOr human
use.
On page - of the report the Super
! intendeMt of Water Works states that
! during the drought of 1891 the small
! est quantity Of water available from
! Nuuanu valley was, per diem, 9l5, 642
US. gallons; this then, in calculating
! the capacity of y pumping plant, is
the quantity that should be reckOned
with, and not daily averages. Three
millions of gallons Of water are re-
quired in this city per diem, conse-
quently pumps of a capacity of not
less than two millions Of gallons per
fourteen hours are required, for the
! reason that this water is required In
the daytime, and not 10 any extent ut
night.
Your committee find that the great
bulk of water rate payers reside below
| the 100 foot level, therefore pump to
serve the town TO that elevation will
| relieve the strain on the Nuuanu val
ley supply, permitting that to be used
for supplying those rate payers who
live above the 100 foot level, and to be
diverted for such purposes as are
covered by the numerous petitions
now being reported upon.
Your committee find that there are
two Government wells, one 6inck and
one inch, available. There is also
an iron building next to the barracks
now unused. One 10 inch well can be
bored in this iron building and the
other two wells connected to a cisteru
Ito be made inside the building) by
pipes. All three wells flow some
twenty feet or so above ground at this
point, and they can readily he ar.
ranged to deliver water into this els
tern, from which pumping plant
can draw its supply to force up to the
required height of not less than JOG
feet.
Your committee has received pro-
pOsal to bore a 10 inch well for the
average price of 81 per foot; this in
cludes the casing, and makes the cost
of the said well about $1,000, Judging
from the depth at which water was
obtained in adjacent wells.
Your committee append an esti-
mate for the cost of q pumping plant
that will supply two millions of gal
Ions of water at 100 foot head, using
not more than $500 lbs. of coal per day
of fourteen hours, and it is possible &c
obtain guarantee that the machin
cry shall be ready as soon as the vel
is bored, or say about four months
time after the contract for the machln
cry shall have been let.
Your committee consider that The
reservoir at the foot of Judd hill, being
at the 100 foot level should be used fol
a distributing center for that portion
OF the town on the Eva side of Punch
bowl street, and that stand pipe OF
large air vessel should be used as {
distributing center for thai part o
town lying on the Waikiki side o
that street.
This plan IS cheap and effective
utilizing the present pipe system t.
its fullest extent, and at the samt
time permitting the use of isolatins
valves, which will permit repairs t
be carried out in one section WithOu
interfering with the water service il
any other.
The cost is as follows:
Well, complete.................., ) 5000 o.