Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-04-10
HOUSE COMMITMEE RECOMMENDS
PAHOA WATER WORKS PURCHASE

wells Immediately after shutting down.
Value of Water Works.-YOur com.
mittee find conservative value of the
pumping plant, pump house. boiler
house, artesian wells, reservoir tanks,
pipe lines, pipe fittings, 1.2 acres OF
land and rights of way estimated con.
servatively and separately amounts to
$4,000. The owners value the plant
at $4,000, but are willing to turn over
the same to the Government for $780,.
900 and take payment in whole or part
In bonds. This would make the value
of the plant as a whole in good work.
ing order with present water priv.
leges $4,000 or 10 per cent. upon your
committees estimate OF the value OF
the several parts.
Future Development.-You commit
tee find that there are at present 81
owners of property paying water rates
OF S2,313 per annum. There are 2,5b4
lots having an average size of 100 $50
feet and 1887 lots having an average
size OF 80 X 100 feet in the tracts of
land adjoining the pumping plant
which will doubtless be converted into
homesteads and which have no water
facilities from the present Government
system. In addition to this the own.
crs of the plant have petition from
forty Hawaiians in the vicinity Of the
Moiliili Church. asking for water priv.
ileges from the Pahoa water works.
These Hawaiians have no water iacili.
ties from the present Government sys-
TEN.
General Water Supply Estimate of
Honolulu.-Your committee find that
the present daily average consumption
water in the city of Honolulu fur
nished by the Honolulu water works Is
100000 gallons; that the average
daily consumption ten years ago was
hut 5000 900 gallons; that there was
an increase during the last ten years
OF 5O,OOO,OOO gallons per day or an
average of half a million gallons per
day each year for the past ten years.
The pumping plant at Kalihi has a ca.
pacity of 100000 gallons in twenty.
four hours, but Is at present pumping
only 100000 GALLONS through lack OF
reservoir and pipe line facilities. The
pumping plant on Beretania street has
a capacity of 3,OOO,0 900 gallons in TWEEN.
ty.four hours; the pumping plant at
Makiki has a capacity Of 100000 gal.
Ions in twenty.fOur hours. The Nun.
anu reservoir has n capacity in the
Il ~ ahn,,t . mn nnn Hone In
twenty-four hours. Your committee
has ascertaincd that in seasons Of
drought the Beretania street pumping
plant is taxed beyond its capacity and
that residents at Waikiki and Kaala.
wal suffer for lack of water.
Adaptability of the Pahoa Water
Works to the general Supply OF the
Honolulu Water Works.
First as to Cost: Your committee
has ascertained that $500 feet OF s..
inch cast.iron pipe would connect the
1S.inch main OF the Pahoa water sys.
TEN on the Kapahulu road with the
Waikiki system of the Honolulu water
works at the junction of Leahi avenue
and Kapahuln road; that the cost Of
said pipe laid down In Honolulu and
estimated at $50 per ton, will be $4,000.
and the cost of laying the pipe at 20
cents a foot would be 5000, making a
total of 1880. A better force can be
obtained from 12-inch cast-iron pipe
the cost of $500 feet of which and the
laying of the same Is estimated at not
TO exceed $4,000. The cost OF run.
ming the plant will not exceed the cost
OF the present Beretania street pump.
ing plant.
Second as to Necessity: The dcvel
opment of the Waikiki and Kaimuki
sections OF Honolulu neCessitatcs the
expansion of the said water works in
those sections. Any accident to the
present Beretania street pump in the
dry summer season would be n serious
calamity. The Waikiki system of the
present Honolulu water works con.
sumes $685. 900 gallons per day. about
One-half the capacity of the present
Beretania street pumping plant. The
distance the water has to be pumped
from the Beretania street station
through Waikiki to Kaalawai is over
six miles.
Third as to Desirability: The pres
ent Waikiki system from the Waikiki
road to King street to and around Dia.
nond Head at Kaalawai and through
the Kekio tract and Kapiolani Park to
the junction of the Kapahulu road and
Leahi avenue. can be readily supplied
from the Pahoa water works by con
Meeting 1t at said junction. BY such a
connection water can be pumped into
the proposed Government reservoir at
Diamond Head much cheaper than
from the Beretania street station, and
the water thus furnished would be
pure and more abundant.
accommodation of Committee
In view of the foregoing, your com
mittee recommend that an item be In
serted in the Loan Appropriation Bill
for additional pipe line for $4,000 for
the purchase OF and placing In position
the $500 feet of l2.inch cast-iron pipe
and that the estimated running eX