Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-01

eOufCo Vi tuPply WAC CuhuRcus uatc
which, in my opinion, will never be for
| gotten by come who have been COM
PEELED to use the water since. The
pumping works north Of Naud's ware
| house were abandoned, and the water
was brought from the Los Angeles river
partly in an open ditch and partly in a
sheet-iron pipe to pumping station
known as the College street reservoir
| From this station the water is pumped
into the middle and high level reeer-
| voirs.
| By ordinance No 267 the city of Los
Angeles granted to the CitizSns' Water
company 20 inches Of water, miners
measurement, under a inch head.
This is equivalent to 1881 United
| States gallons in "a hours rne present
consumption Of the Citizens Water
company is more than three times the
amount of water to which they are en-
| titled under the above ordinance.
The contract entered into between Mr..
| Beaudry and the city, which was ap-
proved by the mayor October %, 1872,
granted to him, his heirs and assigns
| forever, the right and way across,
through and along the streets, etc.
PROVIDED always. That the party of the
second part is not hereby authorized to
sell water in any event, in any portion
of said city, except what is known ae
the hiily section thereof, and where 80
far no water pipes have been laid"
The Crystal springs Land and Water
company, the Arroyo Seco or Garvanza
system and the East Side Spring Water
company are controlled by the Los An
ge es City Water company. The value OF
the above properties ae estimated by the
secretary of the Los Angeles City Water
company was $1,000, 900. No invento
ries were made by the city to check
this estimate.
The present water works system or
compaD1s supplying the city OF Los An
gelts are the following:
The Los Angeles CITY Water company,
the Crystal Springs Land and Water
company, the Arroyo Seco or Garvanza
system" and the Citizens Water COM
pany.
Ths Los Angeles City Water company
supplies nearly three-fourths of the con-
sumers Of this city. Theirs is a gravity
system and their source of supply is the
Los Angeles river, the waters of which
are taken out by system of infltration
the river. The intake or headworks are
located on the Los Feliz rancho, distant
about seven miles north of the city.
The water thus taken out OF the river is
conveyed to the service reservoir bv
means OF conduit, portion of which
is built in tunnel and the remainder
consists Of A sheet iron pipe. The SER
vice reservoir has capacity of 15,00C,-
900 United States gallons, and is located
in Elysian park, near the west bank of
ah cf tlo
north of the Buena Vista street bridge
From the reservoir Inc water is distrib-
uted through the city.
tenn" supplies by gravity portion of
the high level districts of East Los An
geles and Boyle Heights. The water is
developed and taken out of the Arroyo
Seco in the vicinity of the town OF Gar
vanza, by means of infitration pipes
laid below the bed of the stream, and is
brought to this city by means of two
sheet iron pipes eight and eleven inches
in size, respectively, and from them dis
tributed to consumers. These pipes are
sometimes called upon to supply the
service reservoir located on Florence
Terrace hill.
The East Side Spring Water company
furnishes water to portions OF the city
lying east of the river. Their source of
supply consists of number OF springs
located in 'cienega" lying west OF
Mission road and south of Alhambra
avenue. The water is pumped from
here into service reservoir located on
Florence Terrace hill, situated west OF
Soto street and north Of Wabash avenue
in Boyle Heights.
The Citizens Water company sup
plies the hill portion of the city lying
west OF the river. Their source of sup
ply is the Los Angeles river, the water
of which is diverted into an open ditch
by means of brush dam. The point of
diversion is located about nine miles
north of the city and lies within the
boundaries of the Rancho Providencia.
The water is carried in this open
ditch and led into the Iyanhoe reser
voir. This is very small storage reser-
voir located in the town of Ivanhoe and
lies about mile north of the city.
From this reservoir the water is carried
in sheet iron pipe into the College
| street reservoir. This reservoir has q
capacity of 100000 gallens and serves as
pumping sump.
The pump is located at the cite of this
reservoir and lfts the water to the high.
level reservoir, whose capacity is
2 500 900 gallons. and also to the middle
| level or old Beaudry reservoir, the Ca
pacity of which is l 500 600 gallons.
| These last three reservoirs are located
on the Victor Heights hills, in the vicir :
ity OF the Sisters hospital.
All of the hilly portions lying below
the level of the College street reservoir
are supplied directly from the main
supply pipe leading from the Ivanhoe to
| the College street reservoir.
The remaining portion of the hill dis
trict is supplied by means of mains
leading from the high and middle level
reservoirs. Owing to the fact that the
surface water of the river is run through
an open ditch and is not filtered before
being turned into the mains, the quail
| ty of some of the water supplied by this
company could certainly be improved
upon. However, part of the present
water supply for the hills ia being
pumped from the City Water company's g
! mains.
The immediate Improvements to be
made on the water supply for this city
contemplate the erection OF the neces-
sary works to supply the high level
| portions of the town on both eides of
the river. For this purpose 1926, 600
was voted by the people on November
2, 1892.
AS designed the headworks. main sup.
ply conduit, middle and high level
reservoirs are Of size sufficient to meet
| tho rooniro ~ apto of tho eanti0na VA IA q h