New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-05
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
TO GET MORE WATER.
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS EXPECT
ED FROM COMMISSIONER WHITE

HIS FORTHCOMING REPORT To TREAT OF THE
DETAILS OF TIE HEMpsTEAD PLAN
WORK ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
Commissioner Alfred T White. OF the Depart
ment of City Works, in his annual report, to De
submitted on February /. 1885, will present de-
tailed plan for the improvement of the Hemp
stead water supply.
Just what this plan will be is not known. The
engineers are now working on it's details. How
ever it will probably provide for the carrying OF
the supply around the village Of Hampstead IN
this connection l. NJ. De Narona. the Engineer OF
Water supply reported last January:
AT Hampstead considerable work has been done
and Is now aeDe s Dy eecve means Of protecting
the Storage Res ervoir from pollution iee p Si
are uuder study. and viii be presented ana o's
j. Enforcement of the state law as to the abate-
n,eut of sources of contamination in some cases
partial diyerting OF the stream where ms WouIu
g. preferable Enclosure Of the same where iiS'her
OF the two previous methods proves prac,icaGie
Tsppine the stream above Hampstead ana lead
Ing IL through adequate pipes or CONDUIT mo tne
Storage Reservoir disoar1!nB ne "l.;'.i,oi 'H ,
west branch ana providing for the now OF ne iat
ter and Of al the surface WASH o. t'e So
suitable outlet without reference TO Ks use as d
sewer. IL, o,a ,,,. o,,t1e,
being however. selected and DESIGNED with view view
TO the sewerage of Hampstead ana proDdoy also
OF Rockville Centre.
In spite OF the sensational reports puohshed
several months ago II the contrary, 'he bVP"''-
rnent in 1894 did a great deal Of work to improve
the surroundings Of the Hampstead stream sup
plying the storage reservoir, among 0thef 'h'hsS
having removed over fifteen hundred wagon
loads OF muck from the banks and the neignbor-
hood Of the stream, replacing them with an
equivalent amount Of clean gravel and having
pumped out stagnant pool in the village whose
contents We're a standing menace TO the purity
OF the storage supply. 50 that the contanlnauop
OF the fall rains was avoided.
Since then the detailed plans Of improvement
have been steadily carried on. and in snort
time Commissioner White will have prepared MS
plan for the adequate and radical Improvement
of the Hempsi cad source OF supply.
In dealing with the problem Of securing srifl-
oient and wholesome water for a great comInu-
nitv like BROOKLYN. Commissioner White has
steadily continued the plan he began shortly
after he went in Office Of having frequent
analysis made Of the water taken from the va
rious sources OF supply OF Hampstead waite"
and of water drawn from every other source
samples are submitted for analysis al the rate
of five week the samples being taken IN rota-
tion from the forty stations whence the Brooklyn
supply is drawn. BY this method any deterora-
tYon OF water could easily be at once. and by
A. ii is known that the water used In Brooklyn
is in comparison with the water used in other
cities. remarkably pure and wholesome.
Pending the hearing on the application for an
Injunction made by prOpeTty-owners in the town
of Mprrck, who wart 10 have the city restrained
from driving wells In the village, the citys wells
are being driven there.