The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-02-18

| tahS stdHupipe ~ 10 cO rect n1Rf
to give you the same service you ar,
getting now. With the standpipe a.
planned you would get 40 pounds les.
pressure. At 100000 gallons a da,
| you couldn't fill the tank and pre-
| serve the AZ pounds pressure. Yol
could not get water for fire pur
poses If the Ninth avenue tank wa:
not filled. If there was a fire dowr
town it would take all the water
and If a second fire occurred up OF
the hill you would have no water fol
the second fire.
We threw the "a inch main out
! of service--the upper half of that
| main-as a force main, except to use
it as a distributing main until such
time as you may build another reser.
voir back of Mantle Park.
| IF YOU increase by 100000 gal
| Ion pumpage. which you will prob
! ably do i'm a few years and when you
! get tired of your expensive pumping
system. the SO inch wooden mains
will give YOU three times a. much
water as the - inch mains. You
steel The friction with wooden
mains is lower than with steel. l
believe wood is better than iron. But
| you are going to make the last guess
Just like the supreme court makes
the last guess--and it is for you to
] decide. You can do nothing else UNI
( der the statutes"
! al 40 y,
more water with your plan than is
given us at PRESENT." was asked.
mo. But I am talking now with
the meter question left out. If you
don't put in meters, you will have
less water. If you do put in meters,
you will have more water. If you
don't put in something to curtail the
tiolal pumps very soon, but doesn't
have anything to dc with u.s."
How much more water are the
pumps pumping now than we use?"
The rated output is l9,500,000,
but it is about 100000 less.
Under our plan the North Side
is amply provided for. 1t all SINNERS
ipN IL ~ one lHlnS. we llSNit "Ildl
your pumps can do and this body of
engineers has given you a system
which will give you water. You can
not make your pumps pump up to
the Cliff Park site. But if you want
to put in additional pumps and watch
the water run up and run down, you
can do so.
The plan recommended by this
commission was adopted with water
meters added with no additional
pumpage. Without the water meters
the plan is for additional pumpage.
Il would advise you to let your
contracts in pieces. First, build your
reservoir, then the pipe lines and
next ad dthe distributing mains That
would be the best way to get speedy
relief. The quickest relief, though.
would be given you by proper in
spection. Put on competent inspectors
and cut off for a week or two the
people who have leaky pipes and
waste water and you would have i'm
mediate relief
Charles Mcintyre: The reason
referred to the commission, not con-
sulting with the city engineer is this
if the commission and city engi-
neer had thoroughly understood each
other there would have been none
of this discussion. Mr.. Waller is alb
solutely ignorant of these plans He
has no conception whatever Of their
operation as you Will see by examiu-
ing these blue prints. II all the en-
gineers had understood each other,
there wouldn't be so much talk about
/, what doesn't exist"
Mr.. Gill: Il have nothing against
the engineers of the commission
What l object to is a citizen talking
about what he knows nothing about
and the city engineer glared fierce
~ at Mr.. Thompson.
There are stop valves for that
| Lidgerwood tank. If they will look
into my report they will find that
the tank is a distributing reservoir.
| just the same as the reservoir at
| Ninth avenue and Pine street. They
are both fed from high pressure
| pumps and are a part of a completed
system as distributing reservoirs
Now as regards the Ninth avenue
! tank which Mr.. Thompson says we
| can't get water out of without break
! ing the tank. Now you know that
isn't fact. You wouldn't think, Mr..
! Thompson, that a man of my skill
and experience would do something
like you say, would you? ] have the
! documents in my pocket to prove that
l am practical engineer of skill
| and experience
The water from the Cliff Park
reservoir. under my plan, comes to
the Ninth avenue tank when the
pressure falls in the outlet pipe We
don't need a hammer to break it.
Right back of the regulating valve
have great valve closing to regu-
late the flow from Cliff Park into
that distributing tank and there are
20,000,Q00 gallons, no more. That
20,000.00o gallons going in with a re-
duction of only five pounds and we
will have lots to spare"
Professor Waller: You're off"
Mr.. Gill: Il could convince these
men if l were given the opportunity
| to do il. l asked for that opportun-
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