The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-06

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Section II, says: THE fire hydrants
rented by said city of the Water com
/ nanF Shall be used only for the eXtin
| guishment of fires. and shall constantly
! furnish effective tire-Streams without the
aid Of portable engines and flushing
| cutters and sewers through a hose and
| tire-noZzle. In flushing sewers no one
| hydrant shall be used exceeding ten min
| utes in one week, except when lin the
| opinion of the mayor or chief of police
of said city, ii shall be absolutely neces-
! sary: nor shall more than one hydrant
! opening he turned at the same time, nor
shall any flushing be done during the eX-
| tStence of Il fire or without notice to the
Water company
The company contends That the city in
flushing sewers and cutters can only use
each hydrant ten minutes per week, and
are restricted to the use, in both cases,
of fre-noZzle of one inch in diameter.
A-e Finance committee contends;
1. that it pays for the water used in
putting out fires, flushing sewers and gut
ters on a basis of fre-hydrant rental.
,. That as flushing sewers and cutters
are a health measure, they have the
right to use such size nozzle and as much
water as is necessary to effectually flush
the sewers and cutters, not using amy
one hydrant more than TEN minutes in
any one week, in flushing sewers, unless
in the opinion, of the mayor or chief of
police it is absolutely necessary. The
right to use the hytrant longer than ten
minutes per week in flushing sewers, if
it is absolutely necessary, supports our
contention.
3 That no limitation has BEEN placed
upon using hydrants in flushing CUTTERS
hut that we have the right to use the
hydrants as long as is necessary to eff
fectually flush them.
Holding this view, the Finance commit
tee made this proposition to the Water
company:
That the city be allowed to flush the
sewers with siXty-tive automatic flush
tanks dumping twice every twenty-four
hours, using 250 gallons of water at each
dumping, or 500 gallons every twenty
fonr hours. These flush tanks are al
ready in position (but the city is not al
lowed to use them by the Water com
panyl and were to be placed IN good
working order
1t costs the city 1,200 a year in flush
ing sewers by hose and nozzle. This
cost is entailed by having to employ two
men using Il reel and horse. The using
of flush tanks would save the city $1,209
per year, and according to our contention
OF the water we have right to use,
would be saving to the Water company.
This is the calculations:
A two inch Iozzle at % pounds pres
sure discharges $50 gallons per minute.
Ten minutes will discharge $500 gal
Ions. Using 12o hydrants discharges
each 1,107,500 gallons.
This is the theoretical basis: so per
cent. gives the actual amount discharg
ed, which would be SS6,GG0 gallons per
week.
We claim the right to this exclusive OF
the water used in flushing cutters.
Sixty-fiye flush tanks using 500 gallons |
of water per day give 81 800 gallons per
day; for seven days 227 800 gallons.
We have a right TO use each week 70.
flushing sewers $4,000 gallons. The |
flush tanks. would rake each week, 227a |
800 gallons, saving to the Water CON. |
pany each week, 6oS,500 gallons. This |
allows liberal margin for errors and |
still leaves the Water company the |
gamer.
The Water company refused to allow |
the city to use the flush tanks and thus |
save the city 81 200 per year expense in
flushing with a hose and nozzle.
The Water company base their claim
that the city is restricted to the use Of |
a 6re-nozzle of one inch diameter upon.
the following section, I'D: Written |
notice Icing given by the said water
works construction company to the may /
or Of the city of Raleigh of the comple-
ton of said water works, there shall be
a test OF the power and capacity of said /
water-works, when they shall throw |
from separate MIGRANTS in the business
PORTION OF the city six simultaneous fire.
streams through fifty feet section Of /
two and enc half inch rubber hose ana |
one inch nozzle, to q height of one /
hundred tl0O) feet or maintain an equiv.
alent pressure at the mOuth of said hy- |
drants, and when they shall throw. ut an
other time, from separate hydrants IN
other portions of the city, four sin,al- |
taneous fire-streams, and shall have 800
900 gallons Of water in stand-pipe and /
the one hundred and twenty fire-hydrants |
connected to said water-works. they shall I
be accepted by the Board OF Aldermen /
rs complete, and from the time of such /
acceptance shall commence the rental Of
the herein mentioned MIGRANTS
The Finance committee contends that |
this does not fix a fire-nozzle to be a
nozzle of only one inch in diameter; that /
hre-nozzles vary from onefourth inch to
two and a half inches iii diameter. That
the above section only fixes the amount I
cf pressure that shall be maintained by
the Water company on the hydrants. TO
illustrate: If Il fire should occur in the
city and the fire department in putting
out the fire should use two inch fire
nozzle, and if the pressure was not sufli-
Gent to throw the stream one hundred
feet high, neither the city nor the one
suffering damages could sue the Water
company for failure to give pressure
sufficient to throw the stream of water
100 feet high. as the contract calls for
a pressure sufficient to throw six stimuli
taneous streams through fifty feet OF
hose using one inch nozzle 100 feet high
There is also the question of taxation
by the city of the Water company. IN
section Z of the contract this clause oc-
ours: Water for sprinkling the main
business streets, when taken by wagons
owned and operated by the city, shall be
furnished when required, the charge for
which shall not exceed the amount of
tan,