Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-16
TO The TAX PAYERS or THE
CITY OF BOULDER.


Al the forthcoming city election, there
will be submitted to the qualified electors
a proposition to create bonded indebt.
edness. not exceeding the sum Of thirty
thousand dollars (s3o.ooo) for the pur-
pose Of charging the city water works,
and the city council deems it but just
that the public should be advised as to
the general plan under which it is pro
posed to expend such sum or so much of
it as may be necessary for the purposes
contemplated.
That the demand for an increased
water supply for the city of Boulder is
imperative requires no argument. 1t
has been apparent to all consumers of
water Tor two years or more.
Our rapid increase in population for
the past four or FIVE years. renders neces-
sary today, what. under ordinary condi.
tons, would not have been required for
some years to come.
The quickest and most economical
method of effecting such increase COM
mensurate with present needs and further
to satisfy the immediate future, is the
problem to which the committee Of the
city council has given caveful consider
alton, the solution Of which is herein
embodied in plan, which it is belle we'd
will best meet the requirements. and
which it is hoped will commend itself TO
the judgment of the tax payers of the
city.
Our present supply pipe leading down
the canon is I6 inches in diameter. and
terminates about 1000 feet above the
mouth of the canon near the head of the
city ditch.
1t is not proposed to increase the sup
ply beyond the capacity Of the main. by
an additional main. as that would involve
An expenditure of money many thousand
dollars in excess of the sum called for
but. tc extend the present main to the
mouth of the canon. and connect the
same with the city system by such pipes
as will deliver the full capacity of the
main.
Under the existing arrangement two
inch pipes connect the city distribution
system with the supply main. having a
carrying capacity of but halt that Of
the main. the other halt /, ing dead in the
pipes.
One of these 8 inch pipes leads through
the old City ditch into the city reservoirs
the other follows down the canon di.
rectly into the city system; and from this
latter line an >S-inch lateral is taken at
the mouth of the canon and carried over
the divide into the new reservoir
A 2o-.nch pipe delivers the water from
the new reservoir into the city. while the
reservoir is fed through two 8-inch pipes
with less than one-third its capacity.
Thus it will be seen that the city sys.
tenn can carry three times the quantity
OF water that can be delivered to ii, and
the mountain main has aeapacity double
that Of the lines leading from it, the diff.
ferent capacities involving about mile
Of line between the two points.
The city S, stem is fed by two lines OF
pipes which supplement each other. one
leading from the new reservoir, the other
connecting directly with the canon main
with a bra nch to the old reservoir.
The latter line is highly important, as
through it the city is supplied while the
reservoirs are being cleaned and re.
paired
1t is also important that each of the
two lines shall be of sufficient capacity
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