The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-09-11

every system dence detection. being pfoba.
bly, the result OF very slight leaks 10 thons.
ands OF joints, In hre hydrantA, stop valves.
corporation cocks and ofner portione Of the
to he to 10 per cent OF the consumption
In tome cities.
"The winter waste due to the nrst men.
Rock Island this was sreateat IN no ,onuer IN
and February, IN New England, Hrooklyn
aud Rockford, Illinois, In February, III
Rockford the February consumption Is seen
the other two winter months. Daily records
would show this waste much more promi.
uently. AZ Reading, Pa. the maximum
winter rate during lsoI.9s was on Decem-
for that year AT Newton. Mass. DURING
twenty years past, the winter weekly
maximum has fallen In December -four
ruary nine times; the greatest excess being
In the second week Of December when
the average consumption for the week was
100 per cent OF the annual
'"rhe summer waste Is more prominent
the average consumption during June July
and August running from TO 10 per cent
above the yearly average. The waste Of
water by the city Ia flushing sewers by
automatic tanks is In some cases most OK
cessive. From 900 to 500 gallons per dny
per tank should be sufficient for the proper
maintenance OF lateral sewer; but care
lessness or ignorance has been known TO
cause ten TO thirty times this amount 10
be used The water company NJ Racine
Wis. found the III tlushtanks OF that DIV
using l,43B ,429 gallons per day, an average
OF about 1900 gallons each-an actual
waste Of certainly more than 100000 gal.
Ions per day. street sprinklng Is also a
common cause OF much waste one Massa.
chusctts city using per cent OF Its entire
supply for this purpose In 1897
The loas through the leaky house fixtures
Is enormous, From 10 TO 10 per cent of
the premises examined In Boston are found
tn hoNs Inf fwtt ~ ~
defective fixtures reported In 1929 7314
were ball.cocks. The tank bal.cock is with.
out doubt the source OF the greater part of
the waste from defective plumbing"
of Water" Transactions American Society
of Civil Engineers, vol, xxxxiv, page 1860
In 1897 there were e2i1 defective fixtures
on Ats premises In Boston and 1900 leaks
on 4651 metered services. OF the latter
900 were ball-cocks and valves, sci were
sink, hopper, bowl and bath faucets and
100 were burst service pipes
In Philadelphia, OF 7S2 appliances In
certain section containing $50 population,
% were leaking slightly and 80 were run.
ming continually; and It was found In one
district that 90 per cent of the water fur
nished was wasted by II per cent of the
consumers, and In another SO per cent was
wasted by per cent OF the consumers
this being not lavish use but absolute waste.
leaky faucet may waste IS 20 800 gal.
Ions per day, and leaky ball.cock may
easily permit 1O0O gallons per day TO pass
IT, Unless this leakage Inconvenience the
he Will seldom repair the de-
fectve fixtures If not compelled to- The
greatest amount OF leakage of this class
Is generally found in rented houses, particu.
larly of the poorer class, where the plumb.
Ing Is cheap and money for repairing leak
spent grudglngly.
Aside from these there are many un.
known sources of waste, generally leaking
mains or house connections. Different
consider that an average OF 500
TO 5000 gallons leak through pipe joints, by.
irants and valves on each mile OF pipe In |
a well-constructed syster which has been |
IN use for some years; the leakage gener. |
llly being so small at any one point as not to |
pc detected. Although In Boston broken |
and 6-lnch pipes leaking 1000 TO 1000 |
gallons per hour have gone for years I'M
discovered, and other cities have undouhted |
y had similar experiences Most CONNER.
'ial articles are sold by the quantity, and |
here seems TO be no good reason why |
water should not be. water should be
rec as air." the catchword in many cities,
nay be true, but its distribution should |
lot and can not be, nor would this he
expected II a cart instead Of pipes were the
medium.