The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-07-27
REPORT SUBMITTED TO
the CITY COUNCIL
Last Thursday Evening by City Survey
or Unger.

ITO the Honorable Mayor and Board
of Aldermen of the City of Manito-
VOC
In accordance with your request.
herewith submit estimates for new
water works for the city of Manitowoc.
Without having any report from the
privately owned water works 10 guide
me, estimate that the present maxi
mum water consumption in our city, is
at the rate of about / 4 million gallons in
twenty-four hours or about rs much as
one of the pumps will supply, which
rate may have to be doubled for a time
in case there should occur large fire,
requiring four fire streams with It inch
noZzles.
The bes. power for such purpose is
coal gas which is distilled from gas
coal, freed from tar, ammonia and
sulphur, and pumped into the under
ground mains leading to the consumers
or to the gas holder, which latter serves
rs a regulator and storage, so that the
gas making can go on uninterruptedly
during the twenty-four hours, the gas
holder taking the surplus notimmediate-
ly consumed and giving it away again
when the consumption is above the aver
age gas making Thus we have in the
gas holder power accumulation, which
can be instantly drawn upon if we adopt
gas engines for pumping or for other
purposes.
1t may be objected that coal gas is
too expensive in our city to be used in
large gas engines, and that even if we
could buy gas at satisfactory price,
we would make the water works de-
pendent upon the working of a private
ly owned gas plant. But we must also
consider that, as our city grows we will
want to operate our own gas works and
that in a water works operated with gas
engines, and possibly later in an electric
light works also operated with gas
engines, we will have a large nucleus
consuming say, 100000 Gu. IT, of gas
per day, forming the main consumer
for municipal gas works, and helping
us to manufacture gas at reduced
price to our citizens. Even at higher
price than we could manufacture gas
ourselves, if we were to build munich
pal gas works, | would recommend to
buy the gas for the first few years, be-
cause of the advantages already enumer-
ated. | find that the station equip
ment for first class steam heating
plant will cost about $4,000 90 more than
a gas engine pumping equipment,
which difference in price could be used
to build a gas holder near the pumping
station, to be utilized as a gas reservoir
in case there should be some Interrupt
tion Of the supply from the gas compa
ny
1t is impossible for me at present to
estimate the cost of the wells or of an
intake into Lake Michigan which would
be required to supply the water rs |
have no opportunity to make boring
tests and am not in position to know
the cost of an intake crib and under
ground pipe from same to the pumping
station. have assumed, however, that
shallow wells can be dug near the lake
which will furnish sufficient water, and
| have assumed they could be obtained
for 100000
have made no estimate of the cost
of the land required for pumping sta
tion and wells. In order to estimate
the cost of water mains, | have taken
the present pipe system in the city AZ a
basis and added thereto IA, 600 feet of 2
inch pipe to be laid from the pumping
station at the lake front on the south
side, west to the asylum and thence
north on 22nd St, across the river and
connecting with the water pipe on
Michigan Ave, in order to get an in
of the city provide water for new
factories and also to get another pipe
line across the river to depend upon in
case anything should happen to the pipe
across the river down town.
have figured on 200 hydrants, few
more than now in use and 1870 valves or
40 more than in use. | have figured on
water tower to be placed near the
pumping station, with a valve for same
in the station.
Estimated cost of city water works
for the city of Manitowoc:-
Wells. .................... T5O00.0O
Two ~ million gallons triplex
pumps, connected up, 5000 90
Two $50 H. z. Gas Engines II, 900 90
5Ox6O Bldg with foundation for
machinery. ...................6 IS, 0o0. on
Total Station Equipment S96, 900 90
40, 600 cubic it, Gas Holder, -. $4,000 90