The record-union., 1897-06-15
A new WATER MAIN NEEDED.
Also the Enlargement Of Part Of the
I-Street Main.
So Says Mayor Hubbard in Conn
munication to the City
Trustees.

Mayor Hubbard has taken UP the
matter Of the necessity for
new water main to run down
Front street, and out o to Tween
ty-f1fth street, and a better service gen
orally. He sent three messages to the
City Trustees last night on this sub
1ect. in which he says:
To the Honorable Board Of Trustees:
The complaints coming from many
parts of the city of a lack of water
supply cannot be fully satisfied, or even
considered in many cases, because 1t is
not possible to furnish the water that
is required through our present water
mains.
Commencing at our Water Works, at
Front and I streets, we have 20-inch
pipe line as far as Second street From
Second street to Ninth street it Is re-
duced to IS inches, and from Ninth
street to Sixteenth street it is but 10
inches From this main pipe line, ex-
tending from Front to Sixteenth street.
all Of the branch lines which reach the
city limits in all directions are fed. It
is apparent, therefore, that all of the
water that supplies this city must be
forced through the 20-inch pipe as it
leaves the Water Works.
1t is evident to any one who will
look into the condition of our pipe lines
for supplying water that something
must be done. We are each year ex-
tending the pipe lines to the east and
south, but we do not increase the out
let from the pumps, so that we must
continually increase the pressure at
the pumps to force the water through
these new pipes.
The population of Sacramento is con-
tinually increasing, and many new
buildings are being completed every
month, but our capacity for supplying
water has not increased. This matter
should receive your earnest attention.
Irecommend, therefore, that You have
plans and estimates made for placing
a new main pipe line. commencing at
the Water Works, running thence down
Front street to street, thence east on
o street as far as Twenty-fifth street.
This pipe should be made of the best
quality of steel, and should be "a inches
in diameter.
I also recommend that the old main
on street be extended from Sixteenth
street to Twenty-fifth street with a
16-inch pipe.
These two lines will be large enough
to supply abundantly every part of the
city lying within our corporate limits,
even if we had a population four or
five times greater than at present. By
placing these two main lines in this
way they will then be placed so that, if
it was ever found advisable to bring
water into the city from the east of
it. no part of the pipe line system of
the city would have to be changed. 1t
viii make no difference from what di-
rection the water supply may come, for
it would not be necessary to make
changes in the distributing lines.
[ think this matter should be fully
determined upon and arranged so that
it can be submitted to a vote of
the citizens at our next election.
MORE DISTRIBUTING PIPES.
At the last meeting of your board
you referred to me the complaints aris-
ing from lack of water supply. l have
examined the matter very carefully,
and find that there is a 4-inch pipe
through Agricultural Park. On the line
of the alley between G. and H this pipe
is not large enough to supply the peo-
pie east of that point / also find that
much water is being wasted in the park,
or at least much is being used that
is not paid for, and that there is but
one water aker in the park who is
paying for the water. I advise that the
City Taper be instructed to shut off
all taps in the park which are supply
ing water that is not being paid for,
as this will enable the citizens beyond
Twenty-Second street, on the line of
this pipe, to get much better service.
1 also find that the greater number of
complaints come from the southern
portion of the city, particularly from
the vicinity known as the Ridge" An
eight-inch pipe line which supplies this
portion of the city runs out q street to
Twenty first, and from this point a six
inch pipe runs south on Twenty first
street. The Buffalo Brewing Company
is located just south of Q street, and
it requires so much water that it takes
all of it that passes Q street, so that
the people who live south Of r street
cannot be supplied by this. pipe line.
This part of the city is now improving
very rapidly and should be supplied
with an abundance of water.
To give this part of the city the relief