The Hawaiian gazette., 1895-01-04
We recapitulate the measured aow of unused water

We recaptulate the measured flow of unused water
as follows
Localities s.s s,ss s.ss ..sssd, f.
All Ins rce-mil springs Observation-Disclosures. 2780
Axis rice-mill snrinos - 3S
Pukani springs Observation-Disclosures. 1340
Mausoleum springs Observation-Disclosures. 925
Waiawa gulch springs observation-disclosures. 500
Waiawa rice-rnin springs ........... 1SS
Waikele creek springs. ...........-.. AZ 80
These springs all lie within range of three miles
and as before explained the Volume here given repre-
sents only the larger streams that gathered in
such channels admitted of measurement, and such
not already appropriated and used for irrigation
of the extensive fields that fringe the bay below
them 1t represents too the natural How forced out
against all mpedments and that after eighteen months
of exceptional drouth
We do not hesitate to say that systematic develop
ment of these springs would result in large increase
of the flow. Small drains in all direction through the
extended areas OF oozing ground now so wet as to
make unsafe footing would so facilitate the drainage
to cut off the water that finds its way to the
without entering the channels where the flow
measured. In Southern California, where similar
springs cenegas of frequent occurrence develop
ment by drain bitches, tiles and borings has not un-
commonly resulted in double and sometimes qnadrupe
the natural flow. definite plan for such work
only be laid out after special survey and study of each
locality is made The present measured flow, given
on the preceding page is sufficient to rgate 1000 acres
Of sugar cane and we have no doubt that the supply
can BE increased sufficiently to provide for 10000 to
1900 acres if necessary 1t would not be difficult
matter to collect all the water into one central pumping
station if it was considered desirable to do 1t would
probably be preferable, however to establish two
pumping plants and deliver the water from each
to the plantation nearest to the supply
THE ARTEsIAN WELL SUPPLY.
The discovery of the possibility of obtaining supply
of flowing water by deep artesian borngs around The
margin of this island has been of ncacnable value to
all property interests and has compensated in meas
for the loss occasoned by the perpetual robbery of
the waters that TALL copousy upon the mountains
by the porous and thirsty EARTH and for the waters lost
during oentia storms by rapid drainage into the sea-
On other island of the group has nature provided
for such compensation, and here the geological
formation so different from that Of any other region
the world where artesian water is obtained by
boring, that scientific would have risked his
reputation in predicting the possibility of securing
flowing wells by boring in the volcanic and coral for
nations of this country before had demonstrated
the fact.
Mr. James Campbell the present owner of Honou
uli and kahuku, is credited with the distinction of
having been bold enough to try the experiment which
resulted in the first flowing well IN the kingdom This
well was bored ten years ago the lower slopes of
Honolulu rancho and good flow obtained at depth
attempts in the direction that the flowing wells
on the island number 100 some of which
equal, they do not exceed, the flow OF the largest
of four wells bored by Judge McCully On King and
Beretana streets, Honolulu was carefully measured
few days since by Messrs Alardt and Kuege and the
flow was ascerained to be 39S cubic feet per second
25SQOO0 gallons in "a hours The combined flow of
the four wells was ascertaned to be 1868 cubic feet
per second which is equivalent to about half the pres
ent water supply of San Francisco city of than
100000 inhabitants. Two of the smallest of them,
flowing Al cubic feet per second, made to
irrigate 100 acres of rice.
marked popularity of this artesan belt that it
is confined to marginal rim around the island from
level back to elevation of 2 to "a feet above.
In and around the city of Honolulu, or the Kona dis
trict water will flow at the maximum height of 42 feet
In this district also the largest and strongest wells
obtained In the Eva district, which includes all the
margins of Pearl Harbor and Honouiuli, the limit Of
rise 80 feet in the Waiaua district it is 81 feet and
in the Kooau district on the north side of the island
embracing the Kahuku rancho, the limit is q 26 feet
This data obtained from the last edition of Thrums
Almanac, in which is given list of all the wells and
their depths From this list it appears that the deepest
1000 feet in depth The Of least depth is at Wal
aua, ON Dickson Paty's ranch, 200 feet in depth.
Five hundred feet is thought to be about the average
depth record of one of Judge McCuy's wells shows
the following strata passed through: