Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-04-18
FULTON WATER PIPE
THE WORK OF LAYING IT WILL COMMENCE
In TEN DAYS
What the System Will Consist Of-Ths New Res
srvoir-Lsaks Being Stuppsd-Whsn the Hill-
Top Basin Will Be Put In Service.

The unfounded runner, put in circula-
ton by a newspaper, Monday, that the
Water Board would commence work
Yesterday on the new water mains to Full
ton, was a source of serious annoyance
to the Water Board Office force, dozens
of men calling there yesterday expect
ing to get work at once. All were told
that the report was published without
authority, and was untrue, and that
work would not be commenced on the
Fulton line for about ten days. As a
matter OF fact, the pipe is not all here
vet. and will not be on the ground for
some little time.
1.-THE Board has laid down the line of
pipe from the new reservoir north to the
National road, and west along the road
to connection with the old
line which ran up the road
from Market street. The Fulton line
proper, OF eight-inch pipe, will start at
the top Of the hill, on the National road.
and run east along the pike to Fulton,
as far as Lawrence Helier's. Then II
will 60 down cross street towards the
creek, aud back along Centre street to
Schenk's, where it will connect with a
four-inch pipe which crosses the PENN
sula from the East Wheeling system.
This will give a good circulation OF
water, doing away with the dead ends
of pipes both on the road inside the city
limits and at Schenk's, and will insure
Fulton an ample supply OF city water.
The Water Board will put large force
of men to work and the job will be
rushed through as soon as possible.
Meanwhile the work of grouting the
cracks which had opening in the north
half of the new reservoir, through dis
use and exposure to the weather, is pro-
crossing, and by the time the Fulton
line is laid down the basin will be ready
for use and water from it will be turned
into the Fulton line. The south half OF
the new basin has always been in good
shape, and water has been kept in it, IT
being used as q feeder for the old
reservoir, from which the city is now
| being supplied. Under this arrange
ment some water has been pumped into
both the new and old reservoirs, ever
since the new pumping station was
started up.
When the water is turned directly
into the city mains from the new reser-
voir, it will be done very gradually and
carefully, especially in the upper por-
tion of the city, where many OF the
street mains are very old, and being
cast horizontally, in the old style, were
always much thicker on one
side than the other. Some
of these old mains, when put
down, were nearly an inch thick on one
side, and not more than a fourth OF an
inch on the opposite side, and the cor
roson incident to long service has re-
duced the thin portion to mere shell,
in many cases. Naturally, there is a
fear that some Of these pipes will not
stand ithe heavy pressure from the new
reservoir, and the pressure will be let
into them at the rate of only square or
two at time, until it can be seen how
they are going TO act. The Water
Board officials think If they can get the
water as far south as Twelfth street
without accident they will be all right,
as the pipe system south of that street
is better than in what is known as The
Old Town of Wheeling" where the
water pipes were first put down.