The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-11-03
THE wATRRMoRKs on pAR1s.
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Waterworks in Paris is considered one
of the best in the world. Dr.. o'Connor
Of Brooklyn, when in Paris recently,
looked into this subject and found that
the drinking water here is as whole
some as any anywhere. He thought he
detected taste Of ereosote in the va
ter and upon inquiry he found that the
spring water and that coming from
distant unpoIIuted streams was not
only filtered, but a certain quantity Of
creosote was thrown into it daily for
its publication.
A few words on the general organic
cation of the waterworks of Paris both
for the supply Of cleaning, drinking
and also for that for manufactures
viii not come amiss at this time when
water is subject of concern in all
large cities. The city builds and has
charge of the construction, the ma
chimes, the pipes for the constant ALI
mentation and the distribution Of wa
ter, but it has granted the right to
society called the General Waterworks
company, to distribute the water and
collect the tax. According to the con-
tract this company gets twenty-five
per cent. of the total receipts for the
first six million francs, twenty per
| cent. for the following three million,
fifteen per cent. for the next two mill
lion, ten per cent for the twelfth mill
| lion, and five per cent. for all the mill
lions above the last.
Besides the company of waterworks
above mentioned there is another
which attends to the publication Of the
water and to- the quantity which must
be daily dealt out, and it might be
called the company Of engineers as it
is under the direction of the distin-
guished engineer, Mr.. Bechmann. 1t
consists of one hundred and seventy
seven engineers, two hundred AMI six
ty-seven employees, f1fty-four clerks,
seven hundred and sixty-six laborers
attending to the water running
through pipes and 1880 for sewage and
irrigation.
Drinking water is provided by the
derivation of spring water supplied by
the rivers Dhuis, Name, Avre and To-
ng-et-Lunaise. When this is insufff-
Gent river water is filtered in two es-
Establishments situated in ST. Maur and
Ivry. It was in 1865 when the water of
the Dhuis was sent to Paris by means
Of an aqueduct one hundred and thir-
ty-one kilometers long, which pours an
average of twenty thousand cubic me-
ters of water in twenty-four hours in a
reservoir situated at Menilmonstant,
built one hundred and eight meters
above the surface Of the sea. The
works for bringing this water to Paris
cost $S,S00.000, The aqueduct of the
Van1e is very important; 1t is one
| hundred and seventy three kilometers
long, the pipe, built Of masonry, is six
to seven feet in diameter and the max
imum of the feeding is one hundred
and twenty thousand cubic meters in
twenty-four hours. The cost was 81
100000 It Is fed by several small riv-
ers, tributaries Of the vanne the
springs, which are at an altitude of one
hundred and seven and one hundred
and thirty-six meters, come down to-
Paris by force OF gtavitation and those
which have only an altitude of eighty
eight to ninety three meters are sent
up by steam pumps situated at Mary
le-Roi and other places.
AS early as 1881 twas found that the
water coming from the Dhuis and the
Vanne was insufficient, and 1884, when
cholera broke out, 1t was found that
the Seine water, although filtered, was
too polluted to be used for domestic
purposes and the city Of Paris negotia-
ted for the bringing Of the water from
L'Avre, la Wgine, la, Loring and Luz
main, all small rivers situated in and
about the departments Of Eure and
Seine and Marine. The principal adue-
duct which brings the water from
| II vre and La Vigne Is one hundred
and two kilo1neters long, and the fifty
| thousand from one hundred and TWEEN
| tn thousand cubic meters of water
which it brings daily flows into the res
ervoirs of Montretent, part of st.
Cloud. The cost of the bringing Of this
water was increased by a large sum Of
1 Indemnity that the city of Paris was
obliged to give to the inhabitants of
the country through which the river
! flowed The whole cost amounted to
| 81, 100000. The springs of the Lorisg
ana Lunairl go to feed the eastern part
Of the city, and the water, which
amounts to fifty thousand cubic me-
| tiers, flows into the reservoir of Mont
souris. The expense Of these works
was about five million dollars.
| The first great reservoirs Of Paris are
most remarkable, for they are built in
stories, like a house, and each COM
pertinent contains either drinking,
sprinkling or water used for Industries.
The Montretant reservoir is made up
of several compartments lying at the
side of each other, and has the capac-
lily of three hundred thousand cubic
meters and the cost was one million
dollars. The Montsouris reservoir
comprises two stories; the upper one is
three meters deep and can contain
eighty thousand cubic meters of water,
and the lower contains 134,40G cubic
meters, and is five and a half meters
deep. This reservoir cost 81, 400, 900.
The reservoir of Menilmontant is two
stories high and each is fed by differ
ent river: the upper story contains one
hundred thousand and the lower thirty
thousand cubic meters Of water. The
lprice Of construction was eight hun
bred thousand dollars. The large res
| ervoir of Passy includes six compart-
ments, four of which are superposed
two by two; FIVE compartments contain
river water, and the other spring
drinking water. The, total capacity Is
| fifty-seven thousand cubic. meters.
Then comes the Montmartre reservoir,
| which in 1889 was built near the Sacre