The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-30
TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Important Work Being Done by
the Water Company.
NO MORE WATER FAMlNES
The Company Is Now Constructing a
New Reservoir-It Will Act as a
Settling Basin Rapid
Progress Made.

Very important work is now being
done by the Butte City Water company
work which 1t is expected by the com
pany's officers will solve the problem
of the water supply of this city and
never again leave the city short on
water as il was last winter.
The is now constructing a
new reservoir. Its location is a mile
and a half above the present reservoir
and rapid progress is being made in the
work. This new reservoir will he a sort
of settling basin. The water from the
mountains will first flow into this set
thing basin. Here the dirt. vegetable
matter, etc. brought down with the
volume of water in the rush dow the
mountains will. 1t is expected, fall to the
bottom of the reservoir. Tn water thus
cleared and purified will h be con-
Quoted To the present reservoir. There
will be nothing there to contaminate II
and il is expected that the water I'm the
big reservoir will i'm this way always be
kept pure and wholesome.
As preliminary to the work the big
reservoir has been emptied of all that
remained of its old supply of water and
me bottom mas Detn tnOfousnly tlcstItu
out. As the refuse hereafter VIII be
caught i'm the upper basin il is believed
that there will never again be trouble
with the water stagnating.
Work on the new reservoir was begun
last month and IL Is expected to COM
plete II in June. IL viii be constructed
to hold 1876. 900. 900 gallons. The narrow
canyon forms a model place for the
building of a reservoir. The dam will be
an ct Il, .,.fltA OF thn hnftnHa nd Nh fapf
i'm width at the top n will be 40 feet
i'm height. Ii will a w a rock and ce-
ment bottom, so that the water cannot
seep through. The face and sides of the
dam will be planked up. There VIII be
two plank walls and the space between
these plank walls will be filled in with
rocks and earth. This. IL is believed,
will prevent the water leaking through
The main thing to guard against is
eepage.
TIL plan Is to thoroughly clean each
Of the reservoirs i'm the spring. The
water first collecting i'm the upper basin
and being allowed to settle will make
the water thoroughly clean and pure
when it reaches the second reservoir
and the company is confident that no
more impure water will be brought to
Butte.
Superintendent Carroll has invited the
mayor and members of the city council
to go out To the reservoirs n see the
new work that is going ON. The trip
will he made as soon as the weather
gets pleasant. .
The only uncertain feature in the
water situation Is the fact that the
rainy season has come this year In MAY
instead Of in June as usual. The com
pany was counting on building the new
dam ad getting the old reservoir thor
Cughly cleaned during May n ther
when the rains came i'm June let them
both fill up. The rains have come 50
early this year hat there is now "A pos
sibility that the rainy season will bt
all over by the time the new dam Is
completed and it may h be a diff
cult matter to get the dams completely
filed as a supply for the fall and win.
ter