Arizona republican., 1903-05-23
NEW WATER WORKS
Map of Distributing Sys-
 tenn Is Complete
Plan of Improvements to Be Made by the Phoenix Water Company.
 Material Being Brought in.

llS system the cONlDdly proposes lO
 construct at once and for which some
 pipe and other supplies have already
 been ordered. This map was drawn by
 William Mulholland. superintendent of
 the Los Angeles Water company and
 consulting engineer of the Phoenix Wa
 ter company. MT. Mulholland says
 that when this system is completed
 there will not be a resident in the city limits who cannot get an ample supply
 Of water and there will be no spot in
 the system where the pressure will not be ample both for domestic and fire purposes.
 That the company is moving as fast
 as possible toward construction is evi- denced not only by the fact that much material has already been ordered but
 by the further fact that Ii. H. Clarke, the Los Angeles agent of the C. C. Moore Machine company, is here to consult and probably to secure the or der for the gates or valves used al the street intersections and by means of which the water can be cut off from any particular block or section of the distributing system in the event of ne cessary repairs. The valves sold by
 Mr. Clarke are O. the Chapman patent
 and are very expensive, being account ed the best in use.
 ! Speaking of the plans, MT. Heap says , he is not only willing but anxious to
 show them 10 any interested person
 and explain them fully. If any sugges- 1 tions are to be made now is the time to make them. The company proposes to put in a first-class system and at once.
 In the matter of cut-cffs Or valves, MT. | i,o that il may take some months to regu-
 late all leaks after the new system is
 installed, leaks due to possible careless ness Of workmen in calking the joints, but after this is done with good cast
 iron pipe Tn the ground, the plant
 should be good for at least twenty years in any kind of soil, and in Los i Angeles and other places they expect their pipe to last fifty years.
 ! A reporter for The Republican yes
 terday went over the map with Super
 intendeHt Heap and prepared the fol- : lowing concise description of the pro- posed distributing system, showing where the mains are located and how
 each part Of the city will receive it's
 water. If the pipe lines covering the area of the original city were mapped out by chalk on the surface the whole
 W ould look like a vast gridiron or foot | bah field. only with more cross lines the long way representing mains. The | Churchill and Bennett additions on the north are supplied through another
 gridiron system, the Capitol and Neahr additions on the west through another. ] the Montgomery and Linville additions
 on the south through another. All these gridirons are connected by the enlarge
 ment of some of the north and south i laterals to the dignity of mains so that any part of the system may be supplied
 with water from differing directions
 ever in the event of it's natural or
 shortest route of supply being cut off. i The original city, bounded by Van Buren street on the north, Jackson
 on the south, Seventh on the east and
 Seventh avenue on the west, will he i first described. For purpose of com5 parison it should be stated that at present this main part oi the city is fed through q ten-inch pipe on East Washington street and all the other pipes running east and west on the i parallel streets are two to four inches.
 Tn the new system this part of the city will be entirely six-inch pipe except Washington street, which will be l twelve-inch main. and Van Buren and
 Jackson streets. which wiI each carry | Ieight-inch sub-mains as far west as l Center and from there to Seventh ave- ! rue. six-inch sub mains. These mains will all be fed out of a twelve-inch pipe running north and south on Seventh street, which in turn will be fed by q sixteen-inCh and a ten-inch pipe from the works. This "old town" will also be further fed by cross mains from the north on Center street and Seventh avenue, coming from the addition sys- tens to be next described.
 | The Churchill and Bennett additions form the north gridiron, the south boundary ot which is the main along Van Buren street. The main feeder for this system i3 taken north on Seventh
 street to the center of Churchill addi- | tiCn and then west through Pierce street to Center. then iogs south to | Bennett lane, then west on Bennett
 lane to Seventh avenue. Another main
 runs along the north boundary of these additions, forming the north line of the
 gridiron. A lateral, or cross main, runs
 north and south on each street in these
 two additions. connecting the Van
 Buren main with the main on the north ! Ah- Cl tue Clly anu ttOSSiIls llie lteu i pipe through the center of the addi i tions. These laterals on Center and Seventh avenue are six and eight inch : es respectively and are tne pipes spoken
 of as connecting the north additions
 with the "oli town" system as a sup ! !plementary feed.
 l University addition has little sys- | tenn of it's own. being fed at Five Points i by Q main running north on Seventh avenue, another running northwest on i Grand avenue and another west on the Yuma road, and fouT-inch laterals on all streets where there are houses. Neahr and Capitol additions are to be fed from the Seventh avenue main, west through q siX-inch pipe on the
 Yuma road, a six-inch pipe on Adams street. an eight-inch pipe on Washing ton street and a four-inch pipe on Jef- ferson street with smaller laterals to residences none hOWe<er smaller than