The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-18
A MILLION GALL0NSADAY
THE WATER SUPPLY FROM THE
NEW ARTESIAN WELLS NOW.

The City's New Water Works Nearing
Completion Water to Be Pumped
Through { the Mains By Nov. l
and the Works to Be Completed by
January - $4,000, 900 Gallons the
Estimated Capacity of the Wells.
Savannah will have In six months one OF
the finest equipped and appointed systems
of water works In the country, and people
win no longer be subjected to having their
drinking water mixed with the river water.
There will be more than ample supply for
all purposes, unless the useless waste, which
now prevails so largely, greatly increases.
Work on the new plant is being pushed
rapidly and the machinery is being placed
in position as fast as it arrives. All OF the
brick Foundation work has been completed
and the chimney, which is the highest
around Savannah, being $50 feet high above
tide water was gwen It's finishing touches
Saturday and stands towering and ready 10
belch forth any volume of smoke which may
be turned into it.
One OF the 10, 900 gallon pumps Is In posi-
ton and the boilers will be mounted this
week. As tho second pump will not be
ready for delivery until late in the fall work
on the building will not begin until that
time. Il Is desired to have all the ma
chinery up before building the house, which
is to be a thoroughly fire proof structure OF
brick and iron, with an iron roof. A tenn
porary house has been built to protect the
machinery until that time.
TO BEGIN PUMPING NOV. 1.
All the connections with the city's mains
will be completed In ten days, and Engineer
Curtis expects to begin pumping water into
them about Nov. l. All river water will
then be shut off at the old works. The
entire plant will be ready to be handed over
for operation Jan. /.
The work of building the conduit Is the
most tedious of all the work. So far about
1000 feet have been constructed and the
contractors hardly expect to get it COM
pleted before Dec /. When IL reaches the
sixth well, however, the pump can begin
work with safety. In excavating the first
few hundred feet of the conduit great diff
Guilty was experienced with quicksand.
degree. The soil which is being exca-
waited now has very little
quicksand in Its makeup and the
workmen are enabled to get along faster.
All of the wells will flow into this conduit,
which empties into large pool in the build
ing, from which the pumps will draw their
supply Direct Tho flow will be constant
engine pounding for want Of water to
pump.
FLOWING A MILLION GALLONS NOW.
The twelve wells are in splendid oondi-
ton ana easily average 1000, 600 gallons
apiece daily. The water bearing strata at
the new works is vastly superior to that
penetrated by the wells at the present water
works. In the new place tho flow of one
we'll does not interfere with its neighbor,
while at the other every new well
reduced the supply Of the others.
Engineer Curtis made test with one OF
the wells a few days ago by shutting of the
others and the result showed 100000 gal
Ions This test easily demonstrates that
with all the wells flowing the daily supply
will be over ~ 100000 gallons
Contractor Chaplin who has charge Of
the brick work gave his negro workmen a
lunch yesterday In appreciation of their
| work on the chimney.