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Senate Committee
Favors Pauoa
Scheme.
Decides That Value Is.
Hundred Thousand
Less.
Adds Ground About Springs and
Right of Way for Pipe
Line to City.

SENATE may pass the Dill IOT the
purchase of C. w. Booths Pauoa val
/ ley springs on Saturday. but the price
is fixed at s15OOOO instead of quarter
Of a million dollars as passed by the
House. The Special Water COMMITTEES.
through Senator Isenberg. made a
favorable report on the House bill yes
| terday. and it was adopted on motion
OF Senator J. t. Brown, without COM
ment. The bin win be given a third
reading tomorrow.
] The committee. though it examined
into the Nuuanu Valley water plans of
superintendent Cooper and superin-
tendent Andrew Brown, makes no men,
tion Of 1t in its report and though an
analysis Of the water by Prof. shorey
Is appended. the reports made by Coop
er and Brown and the facts requested
| by Senator Mccandless are not APP
pended
The following is the report.
Your Special Committee, to whom
was referred House Bill No. 157 and
Senate Bin No 1922 beg leave to report
as follows.
Your committee have taken into
consideration House Bill No. 157, and
have gone into the question of the diff
ferent water sources very carefully.
| They have also personally looked into
the water supply which is coming from
Nuuanu valley. and have obtained fig
ures in regard to the pumping Of water
at the Beretania street pumping sta
ton
I'VE, the committee, have come to
the conclusion that pumping water is
rather expensive. and especially the
running expenses of the Beretania
street pump. We find that other pumps
in the country are running much
cheaper. and we think it inadvisable to
increase the pumping plants in the city.
unless it is considered absolutely nee
essary.
government should own all of the water
if it is going into the water business.
as it is now, and control all sources
of the water supply of Honolulu. We
are in favor of the government pur-
chasing the Pauoa water springs. We
have personally inspected these springs,
and find from measurements made by
several engineers that there are about
l, 100000 gallons Of water flowing daily.
This measurement was made in the
latter part of the month of March, and
the months previous and the month of
March have been very dry. so that the
made indicate the lowest
supply obtainabIe from the springs.
ut has also been stated to the COM
mittee that it is very likely that the
water in Pauoa springs can be devel-
oped more, and while this may be true,
the danger of undertaking it should be
very carefully examined before such
a course is pursued. The supply of
water is very even throughout the year.
which indicates that the water comes
rom long distance. The quality of
he water has also been taken under
careful consideration by your COM
nittee. and the analysis made by DR..
shorey we hereby attach to our report.
rhis shows that the water is some of
he purest that can be had. We further
attach the options of the differ
mt holders and Of Mr.. Booth: and (
your committee have come. to the con-
fusion that the government should not
'ay out dollar until it is satisfied that
t can obtain good title to the water 4
Ind the land upon which the spring is
situated. We are also of the opinion
hat the Legislature should not enter
INTO contracts and then saddle the gov
srnment with lot of law suits; nor
any part of the water unless
hey can purchase the whole.
Your COMMITTEE have had the opin
on of persons having a large practical
experience OF water supplies in the
Stands. and have based the valuation
# this water supply largely thereon.
1.-The upper spring could easily be
directly with a pipe, which i
viii be about 1900 feet long, TO the
present government main at the cor
Ter of Pauoa road and PunchbowI
street, and about 5000 feet from the
over spring; and your committee
kinks it win cost about $4,000 TO
'ring that water direct. But should it 4
'e necessary to put the water in reser-