New-York tribune., 1903-01-29
WIfS7E 10000 n DAY.
In q "NmTay HilF' District Tia
Number Of Gallons Lost.

Commissioner Monroe Of the Department Of
Water supply Gas and Electricity yesterday
reported that after an exhaustive test in what
he calls the Murray HiIr" district. where the
daily flow is about 10000 gallons, it was found
that through defective mains and bad plumbing
100000 gallons Of water went to waste every
twenty-four hours. In tenement house dis
trict with an equal average flow the per capita
consumption was far less than in the other dis
trict The waste was less also In an interest
ing statement issued yesterday Colonel Monroe
says:
Districts Of small area have been ISOLATED By
closing the valves or satss al0unu me Doandaries
which measuring Instruments are placed These
measuring instruments give the quantity of ali The
water that nows into the iso9fsd t district curing
IS the Cole-Elad pltoneter; II Is p5lIaTily rate
meter with photo recorder WHICH indicates the
flow dq5ng 5 sSery s9ur Of the tWsnty0ar Tor
simultaneously with the measurements Of the
pitOmeter q hOuSe-tO-nOuse canvass is made to de-
termine the leakage in the pnmoing the sewer
Ways are looked into
Up to the, present time four districts. have been
second-st- the north. Lexington ave- on the east
I'M dr9S & & on b 'e sirsd ai q t1nlcaI ST ST On
stone" district District No. is bounded BY
east Ninetieth-st CE the south. and SeCond-ave on
the west. 1t contains large number Of tene-
In District No. l. which can be designated as the
accordng s to the Tnted states census Of 800 IS
400 Nonresident population amounted 70 37e)
people. that it runs up the total population for
whom water is provided in that district TO over
The first pitorneter measurement showed that in
twenty-four hours 900 gallons OF water came
Very 1fg [iT caTefiy Were eaEy plumbing was iscoS
cred in houses the occupants were notihed and BY
cutting off the district block by block several small
ere discovered t6fr readfng Of the DftoneTer
taken three weeks after the first reading. showed
that 1.47OG00 gallons of water were daily supplied
four hours when the last measurement was taken
was several pounds higher tnan tne pressure % cur our
ing the time the hrst measurement was IsKen ana
the indications are that $4,000 gallons l OF water
mains and notifying private owners Of defects in
their plumbing. The per capita consumption IN tns
nonresident population. was during the first meas
urement 2S gallons day. on tne laST @ u5eaS1Te sIS re-
nonresident population the total resident Dopu-
h5l0P tidR TsS siyi@ "a O. gallons h6 se d Be- and *
gallons day on January = me !sL nIgni Lo"-14at Ina
o'clock in the mOrning-was 80 per cent or the
average dGw tor the eHF9 ~ " 5rrs mi District
is the second district that has been measured, an
mas & q t tb o f21ftsd STATES census of 1910 and
capita consumption Is only thirty-seVen gallons
and if we take the actual leaks in the house plumb
ing which we found and measured. the net per
capita consumption is only 2z1z gallons In this
district the night flow was only % per cent GI the
day flow instead Of 30 per cent as IN the MS6rsg S
plumbing was deducted the flow at night was very
small indeed The conditions in the district were
there were any leaks in the mains. and the only
thing necessary was that the house plumbing
should be attended to-
A further comparison may be made between DIS
trict No l. the Murray Hill district and District
No . the tenement house district The daily sup
ply of water in these districts is approximately
The same. The leakage in the mains IN these as
tricts we believe to be very slight The leakage IN
he plumbing in the Murray Hill district, as
far as can be ascertained, is a little over 4yt,Wo
house leakage reported Is $4,000 gallons day. The
water sold by meters in the Murray Hill district -
e3S 400 gallons day and produces revenue to the
ejtv of s3 ODa wear of total revenue for the
entire district of $4915- In the tenement house DIS
tTict only $4,000 gallons sold BY meters. pro-
ducing revenue OF S4'70o OUT OF so'a revenue u
On the total consumption in the Murray Hill dis
trirf the city is paid little than seven cents
for 900 gallons. In District No p the tenement
house district the city is paid on total consuInp-
tfon nearly 10 cents for 1s006 gallons For water
Supplied on frontage rates. which we viii CONSIDER
as an the water that into the district, less
what Is actually measured by meters we IND ina Z
for s32 gallons day supplied to District NO I
the CITY receives yearly revenue OF S1S115, while
Side tenement house district (NO. p the city re
refves total revenue frontage rates or SSl,5ls
These figures demonstrate not only the unIalrness
of frontage rates, but that the extra ourdeh as
usual falls upon those least able TO bear II
The flow in a third district has also been meas
ured This latter district is the lower East
Side, and is bounded by Grand-st- on the nortn,
Inc East River on the east. Market-st. on Jhe
south and Dfvfsion-st. the west. IL contains p
population of about 000. and the consunptioh
approxima tes so gallons per capita but the pluno
ing lea kage has been found TO be very great anu
has NOT Vet been fully measured. and other data
have not yet been completed