Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-25
CITY WATER Co, BLAMAESS,
No Suffering Entailed on Those
Using Its Water.
1t offered to Help Out the Citizens
Company.
The City Water Company IL still willing
to Negotiate for That Purpose-It
Has More Than Enough water
for Everyone.

EDITORS HERALD: During the lively
discussion of the "Hill Water Supply
at Mondays meeting Of the council, Mr.
Summerland made the statement that
the connection made with the mains Of
the Los Angeles City Water company
had failed. This shows a remarkable
lack of knowledge of the true condition
of this matter by those whose place II is
to fully inform themselves.
As a matter of fact the only supply
available to the Citizens Water com
pany, pending the repairs of it's main
supply pipe, was that which the small
connection with our main on Buena
Vista street afforded, and / think it
speaks we'll for the supply in our sys-
tenn when state that the district sup
piled from this small connection was
the only one that did not suffer from
lack OF water at any time during the
whole period of truble.
Last spring I was instructed by the
president and board of directors Of the
Los Angeles City Water company to
look the ground over and make an esti-
mate of the cost of the appliances neces.
eary to furnish the Citizens Water com.
pany with all the water needed on it's
system from the supply of the Los An
geles City Water company. The Los
Angeles City Water company expressed
its willingness and made proposition
at that time to do all the work necessary
to accomplish this, but the Citizens
Water company would not entertain it,
and 80 the matter dropped. I believe
pany is still willing to negotiate for this
opA sf nf kho L.
councilmen or others wish to inform
themselves as to its ability to do this
with it's present supply, all they have to
do is to 90 to its reservoir and observe
the waste water constantly flowing from
there into the Los Angeles river. The
quantity there running to waste will
easily exceed the quantity required to
furnish the entire hill portion of Los An
geles. The quantity of water flowing
into the Los Angeles City Water COM
pany's reservoir only represents half of
the capacity OF it's conduit from the
head works on the Los Leliz rancho,
where it has at all times sufficient wa
ter to supply city of three times the
population of Los Angeles, and which
can be drawn on at an hours notice
to the full capacity of the conduit men
toned.
In addition to this conduit, there is.a
covered flume, running parallel to it in
the entire distance and of about the
same capacity, so that in all combined
there can be delivered four times the
quantity at present required. The dis
tribution from the Los Angeles City
Water company's reservoir is through
thirty-inch main to the Buena Vista
street bridge, where it divides into two
twenty -two-inch pipes, one of which
runs down Buena Vista street, and the
other down San Fernando street to Up
per Main street, and thence down Main
to First.
Now figuring on the very moderate
velocity of four feet per second, in these
two mains, they have a com bine d capac-
ity of about 100000 gallons daily-a
supply that should be sufficient for
city of twice the size of Los Angeles.
1t is from the 22-inch main on Buena
Vista street that propose to supply the
Citizens Water company, by pumping
directly from it to their reservoirs, and [
can assure the people of the chill Sec
ton" that under this arrangement they
would have no cause of complaint as to
quantity or quality of water furnished.
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM MULHoLLAND,
Supt. L. A. G. W. Company.
Los Angeles, May "a.