The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1906-06-22
OUTLINE
.flF PROPOSED
I /. W SYSTEM

! FHay HlsnU, Ine lolloMihS
w. submitted and adopted:
To the Clarksburg Board of Trade:
We your committee, who were APP
pointed to look into and report upon
the condition Of the city water
works, fully realizing the great I'M
portance that this proposition bears
to the business and industrial
growth Of our city, beg leave to sub
init the following report:
Our present plant consists OF a
five foot dam across the West Fork
river from which our supply of water
is taken through the 12-inch suction
pipes to the pumping station, thence
by means Of two compound duplex
pumps, size IA by % by 10 by IS,
capacity 100000 gallons each per
"a hours. is conveyed through two
pipes. one of which is 10 inches and
the other 10 inches, to two steel
reservoirs or tanks, 80 by 40 feet,
The capacity of each Of which is
100000 gallons, which combined
give us a little over one-half million
gallons Of storage water. From
these tanks one 10-inch main leads
down into the city from which the
distributing mains 60 off.
We are reliably Informed by the
CITY Water Works Committee and
Superintendent of Water Works,
with whom we held a meeting to
discuss this proposition. that the
daily average consumption Of water
amounts to about one and one-half
million gallons, that it is necessary
to keep both pumps running con-
tinuously in order to meet the de-
mands. and that if it became neces-
sary to stop one of the pumps for an
hour and a'half, to pack it, it would
take two days time to replace in the
tanks the water that had necessarily
been drawn therefrom by reason OF
such stoppage. Therefore, should
anything happen to either pump
necessitating the stoppage Of same
for "a hours, at the end Of that time
we would be practically without
water. While we realize that our
tankage capacity is too small, yet
with the Improvements hereinafter
suggested and recommended, we con-
slider that the matter of increased
storage capacity can be laid aside
for the present.
In addition to this the 10-inch
main leading from said tanks, is not
large enough to supply the service
mains leading therefrom, therefore
very materially reducing the pres
sure on said service mains. In fact,
on the day that your committee met
with the City Water Works Com
mittee, the superintendent of the
Water Works stated that he had
measured the water pressure at the
Fire Department, which is located in
the center of the business district,
and that it only measured a pressure
of 40 pounds TO the inch when it
should have measured los pounds.
So, that if a fire should occur in the
congested portion of our city, we
would not have pressure enough to
combat the same.
We are informed that quite num-
her of industries located outside OF
the corporate limits are using the
city's water; that said industries may
be using more water than is neces-
sary for manufacturing purposes
thus further decreasing pressure on
the mains and thereby endangering
the property Of tax payers.
We would therefore make the fol
lowin recommendations:
First-That the Council be re,
ouested to notify all industries out.
side of corporate limits to cut theil
consumption of water to the lees
possible amount, allowing their onll
such water as is -aces y Cor boilel
and manufacturing purposes, ant
that all parties having pumps attach
ed to city mains be notified to I'm
mediately disconnect the same, ant
that any refusal to comply with thi
request or unnecessary waste Q
water by any Of the same would b
sufficient cause for having thu
Water Works Commissioner shut of
water entirely from such plant.
Second-In order to in a measure
protect the property of our ttaxpay
ers. tor the best under existing cir
cumstances, we would recommend
and urge the immediate laying Q.
the 12-inch pipe from Chestnut t
Oak streets, a distance OF 4,4oo feet
pipe for which has already been pur
chased and laying on the ground
also the purchasing and laying OF al
additional 1s-inch pipe from pres
emit tanks to intersection Of Chest