The times., 1897-05-13
THE AQvEDuCT REPORT
Captain GiIland's Review Of
Work Done in April.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE
Repairs to Reservoirs, Pipes. Build
ings, Telephone Lines and Cou-
for Construction and Maintenance
Nearly Six and a Half Millions.

Capt ~ u. Ciilland, of the Corps of En-
gineers, in his report of the operations for
the month Of April for the Washington
aqueduct, says: "The total amount ex-
pended for construction and maintenance
of the aqueduct and its accessory works
TO June SO, 1896. including the Wash
ington aquejuct tunnel and the new
reservoir near Howard University, was
ST, 6,416 1857 53, of which anount The Dis
trict of Columbia paid 81, ,255,I48.76'
In referring to the work that was done
Ia April the report says: "Ali cracks In
the bottom and along the sides OF the high
service reservoir Were plastered up aHd he
interior surface carefully covered with
several washes of Portland cement 10 pre-
vent eAfiltration. The repairs Of the la
horer's house at the Dalcarlia reservoir
were completed; bitches and culvetts we're
cleaned; roads Were repaired and grass
around the reservoir was cut An S-inch
cast-iron drain pipe was laid from the &C.
inch valve vault near Foundry .rancn TO
the branch. ii distance OF sixty feet An
iron hand-rail was placed around the shaft
at The Dalecarlia reservoir
THE slopes of the dams AMI channels
ut the Dalcarlia reservoir were repaired
and grass seed planted leak IN the
36-inch main at College Pond was un-
covered and temporarily repaired Three
small leaks in the 4S-inch man on NJ
street were repaired. A new roof was
put on the watchman's house at Da-
carlia reservoir The telephone line was
repaired between Great Fails and the
office, ard about one and "a half miles
OF new Wire were put up in Georgetown
where the line was entirely destr wed
by the storm of September 20, 1856
About 500 feet of fencing at he dis
tributing reservoir, damaged by the same
storm, were repaired. new boardwalk
was constructed in the tunnel leading TO
wastewcir No. 2. Small repairs were
made TO the Conduit road; bitches were
cleaned, fences, telephone lines and build
ings were repaired, and the roof of the
watchman's house at Dalecarlia reser-
voIr was painted.
''Curre nt-meter observations taken IN the
conduit between the two reservoirs were
reduced and plotted; break in the 24-inch
main on X street, between Eighth and
Ninth streets northwest. was repaired;
shutters were made for the watchman's
joints OF the 12-inch main at Thirty-second
and NJ streets, and in the 4S-inch main q
Thirty-second and NJ streets, were calked.
and The inside screen of the effluent gate
house at the distributing reservoir was
removed.
"A 12-inch blow-off was placed in the
49-inch main ct New Jersey avenue (; nd
l. street, and a leak in the Joint of The
4e-incb main at Tweuty-sixth and n
streets was caked. leak in the 5-!oot
drainage channel on the east side OF the
Delcarlia reservoir was repaired.
During the flood, February 23-o5, the
Government property at Great Falls was
removed fIom the store-bouse across The
canal for safety, and returned to the store
house when the flood subsidized; LIZA
cubic yards OF flint stone were purchased,
and about forty-five cubic yards were
crushed and spread upon the Conduit road,
near the distributing reservoir: 356 cubic
yards of blue stone were crushed and
spread upon this road near the Delcarlia
reservoir. and 3Oo yards OF crushed stone
We're spread betwe cen Cabin John Bridge
and Bridge No. 8.
The condition of the water in April st
the distributing reservoir was as follows:
Turbid, one day; slightly turbjd, two days;
clear, twenty-seven days.
Excluding the days when the water
was pDrposely lowered in order to con-
struct the gauging ever at the Del carlia
reservoir, the water level in the dis
tributing reservoir varied between 145 e3
and 146 03 feet above the datum plane.