The sun., 1905-10-13

lnH io the Hupr ~ tstirmto puI Nrpof
tiohment yrstrttlny almost evnU'N fuui
mouiha from the date n iHr,r appointment
IhrV recommended y rltu ~ sc' urinE .
water supplv ftnin me tnislull fcRiun ard ~
nu ultimate crin,htcl cost " tinl go Wn
fhe sipplv " wa,Sr s lu he NJ lrasi
nTp UU gallons dny iu addition ~
the Np Dun Osa that tho citv IL getting ~
ahout to set from the tfoion watershed
l,lnW and tho ita Wo Oro that Brpoklyn
IL fcuoiylng ffoin Long Island Tho total
supply will he lroin NO 900 DNN Ia I Wn no
Oo0 gallons " day witch. according 10 the
estimates ~ tho engineers. will provide Tor
the Increased needs ~ the city for twenty
1--WE 10 thirty I've years, and perhaps longer
II Ia eatimated that It will require ten years
to ge, the new systen into operation.
The commissioners. i Edward simmons,
Charles n Chadwick and Charles 4 shaw,
appea red before tho hoard with their engi-
neers and maps and estimates and spccih-
cations, 40 far as th, have been prepared
Mr.. Simmons presni Vi the report with
some explanatory itements, tupo-
graphical map which has been prepared
| by the engineers Of the Water Supply board
shows the regions in the Catskill' where
water is to be secured including the Esopus
region, VIII p the Ramapo company pro-
posed to e. crate; the proposed sites for
numerous reservoirs the line of way Tor
new aqueduct, with tunnels and what Is
known IA "cut and cover" work down to a
proposed dist ributing reservoir at Hill View,
near onkers.
The law requires public hearing in the
matter and October II was fixed for that.
n the plan is approved II will have to he
approved also by the State Water supply
Commission, the members of which are
known in general way to be friendly
to the new scheme.
The commissioners made n personal ex-
animation OF the Catskill and Long Island
regions and also visited the new metro
politan water supply system OF Boston
They not only engaged John X. Freeman
as consulting engineer TO the board, but
appointed j. Waldo Smith chief engineer.
with Prof. Burr and Frederick p. Stearns,
the engineer who has constructed the Boston
system, as consulting engineers to MIR.
smith. Messrs. Burr and Stearns are mem-
bers Of the Panama Canal Consulting En-
gineers and were not present yesterday
They signed the map presented and APP
proved the main features OF the report
that was made to the board of estimate,
The new plan is first to build an enormous
reservoir in the Esopus Valley, to be known
as the Ashokan reservoir, covering 10000
acres and capable of holding 10000 900 900
gallons of water. which will be obtained
from Esopus Creek. From this source
about $50 OOO, 600 gallons of water daily are
to be obtained. The water is to be sent
through an .aqueduct. under the Hudson
River at New Hamburg, just below Pough-
keepsie. and then down the east side OF
the Hudson River, where the water can be
turned temporarily into the Croton system
until the new one is in operation. thereby
lessening the danger of a water famine in
the immediate future.
The auueduct from the Ashokan reser-
voir is to be built with a capacity of 500
600, COO gallons daily, so that when the ad-
the Catskil region is secured the aqueduct
will be ready for its full service.
Coming down the east side of the Hudson
the Ian is to run the water into the great
Kensico Reservoir, at present part OF the
city's water system, but which will be
enlarged by the erection of higher dam.
That will enable the commission to store
about IS 900 900 600 gallons of water, in an
area $50 miles square, at an elevation Of 355
feet above mean tide. This would supply
DAYS in case Of break in the aqueduct
above the Kensico Reseryo DIR OF in case it
should he necessary to shut down the sys-
tenn above for cleaning or other purposes.
The plan is then to bring down the water
to a filtration plant at Scarsdale four miles
below Kensico, after which it is to be run
through the acqueduct to the Hill View
Reservoir near Ioukers, with 500 900 900
gallons capacity and an altitude of nearly
300 feet. From that it will be distributed
,l,at N.-t,,
an aqueduct is to run to Brooklyn, crossing
under the East River just east of RandalPs
Island and running to a distributing point
in Forest Hill Park. This will deliver 200
600 900 gallons of water day to Brooklyn.
A line Is also to be run to Staten Island,
the neighborhood of Fort Hamilton.
The new Water Commission does not in
clude the distribution of water in the yari-
Gus boroughs in its p pans Its work is to
gates, so to speak. Its first thought is to
supplement the Croton supply, until the
entire new work can he completed, and !
also especially to provide some temporary
plan for getting water for Brooklyn. The !
Brooklyn situation has given the board !
Smith says on this subject
past season i. almost without precedent, in
consumption SO outran the supply that there
were hours in the day and even days at time |
when houses on upper levels are said to have |
been deprived of public water supply. In the !
course Of this shortag" resort was OF necessity |
had to the throttling of gate valves in street |
distributing pipes to lessen the pressure and |
choke the draught, so that IN many parts of he |
city water could not he drawn in the upper /
stories of dwellings during the working hours |
of the day. This throttlng Of water gates |
invites a conflagration which ia not pleasantto |
dwell upon.
The plan of the Water Board Temporarily |
to supply Brooklyn's need is to extend the |
present water system on Long Island. !
The report of the engineer says that Brook !
lyn cannot properly be asked to wait for
the new supply from the North" The re-
port also adds that owing to the numerous |
underground streams of water on Long |
Island to the east of those tappeda at present |
the plans for securing this ground water
and delivering it rapidly into Brooklyn are |
of a simple character, permitting very rapid |
construction and therefore early relief, |
providing existing complications can be
met"
The report did not make plain what these !
"existing complications" are, but il is under |
stood that they relate to the passage Of GER |
tain needed ordinances.
As to the Croton needs, the report points !
out that the new aqueduct, when running a |
full capacity, can deliver only about 205,- |
600 900 gallons Of water day to Mania ttan |
and The Bronx and the old aalieduct can |