Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-08

feed the eastern part of the city, and
the water which amounts to $4,000
cubic meters flows into the reservoir
of Montsouris. The expense of these
works was about S5,000,0OO.
The five great reservoirs of Paris
are most remarkable, for they are
built in stories, like a house, anc
| each compartment contains either
drinking, sprinkling or water used fol
industries. The Montretant reservoir
is made up of several compartments
lying at the side of each other, and
has the capacity of 100000 cubic
meters, and the cost was $1,000, 900
| The Monstouris reservoir comprises
two stories; the upper one is three
| meters deep and can contain $4,000
cubic meters of water and the lower
contains 124,400 cubic meters, and is
| 51a meters deep. This reservoir cost
s1,400,000. The reservoir of Menil
montant is two stories high and each
is fed by a different river; the uppe,
story contains 100000 and the lower
| 10000 cubic meters of water The
price Of construction was $500, 600
The large reservoir of Passy includes
six compartments, four of which are
superposed two by two; five compart.
| ments contain river water, and the
other, spring drinking water The
total capacity is $1,000 cubic meters.
Then comes the Montmartre reservoir,
which in 1889 was built near the
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cubic meters of water and cost
$4,000.
The most interesting part of the
waterworks are the five establish,
ments got up for the publication of
drinking water, when, during the sum
mer, spring water gives out. The es-
tablishment at Saint-Maur can filter
$4,000 cubic meters of water daily.
1t consists of six open basins, each
filtering 1900 square meters. The
layers of filtering material are one
| meter thick. of which one-half is fine
| sand. Strange TO say, the first water
that goes through the filters is not
sufficiently purified to be drinkable,
but it forms a coating on the top of
the sand, and the water going through
that coating is absolutely drinkable,
for the microbes are reduced from
1000 to /. When the rules of the es.
Enlistment are vigorously observed
this water becomes as pure as spring
water.
The water is distributed in two
ways, one being entirely distinct from
the other. In every street two pipes
are laid side by side, and one is fed
with spring water and the other with
river water. For private feeding the
pressure is strong enough to reach the
uppermost story of every house; for
public service the pressure is not so
great. The pipes used for the pres,
sure for river water is not strong
enough. Fortunately for water
dringers there are not so many fires
in Paris as in New York; if there
were the inhabitants would go with,
out spring water more than half the
time. On an average, there is not a
big fire in Paris in year, and think
it would be to the benefit of New
Workers to study the reason.
In these gigantic waterworks there
are 20 hydraulic machines which con,
tain 5000 horsepower, working day
and night. There are 81 reservoirs
which have the capacity of 100000
cubic meters of water. The machines
pump up 996.500 cubic meters of water
every day, $4,000 drinking and 644,-
500 cubic meters of river water. This
gives an average of $40 liters daily to
every inhabitant, which is too little in
warm weather, and too much in
winter. The cost of the machines to-
gether with the pipes amounted to
S60,000,00O.
The water for public use and for in
dustries is obtained from the Ourea
canal the Seine, the Marine and ar
tesian wells. BY means of hydraulic
machines the canal gives 1S0, 900 cubic
meters of water daily. There are five
hydraulic machines that pump up the
Seine water in different parts of the
city and feed reservoirs which contain
$4,000 cubic meters of water. The
Marine feeds the Gravelle lake, 10000
cubic meters, and the Menilmontant
reservoir with $4,000 cubic meters.