Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-14
OUTING AT RESERVOIR . baiId Visited tha Location Whore Al- oher Water Supply Nay Be Stored.

The department of public works held its annual inspection yesterday. It was a busy day. but Mayor Tholns and the commissioners were very much pleased with what they saw and could not speak too highly of the ef- forts of Caretaker Dannher to keep the reservoir property in sanitary condition. The party went to Tholn- aston on the cars and from there to the Branch in bus. When they reached the big masonry dam, City Engineer Cairns took the lead and for two or three hours 1t was 2 case of walk as fast as you could leg 1t. It is three miles around the body of wa ter which covers an area of IS acres, but this was by no means the full ex- tent of the journey The engineer led his honor and the commissioners on- to q high mountain. showed them the location of the next reservoir for Wa terbury, which he said will have to be ready for use in 1910, that is If the city does not want to run the risk of contending with a water famine. If
 
 Cairns said that 1t should take steps to meter the whole system or think out some scheme to check the rapid advance in population. The second dam will be of earth with stone fac ing and with the water stored back of thls the city will be reasonably safe for great many years. Mir Cairns suggested that bond issue for that purpose be provided for at the coming session of the general assembly. The amount necessary will be about $40O, GOO.
 Nobody said very much about the engineers plans, but all did great deal of thinking and the more they thought the more they become con vinced that he was right, except per haps that he had overlooked, pur- posely or otherwise matters no, to mention that his computations were based upon furnishing water for man. ufacturing purposes as well as for fire protection and domestic use. The city has lots of room for another reservoir up there and the lay of the land appears to be just right for it. It has something in the neighborhood of 900 acres of land with water shed of over 80 acres. Many of the trees on the property are marked with slight cut of an axe or some other sharp instrument. This was done by the government forester, who went over the whole territory and picked out such trees as he believed should be taken down. It will be big job to get them out of the way, but 1t will have to be attended to.
 Superintendent Kennedy took the board in hand after the journey around the reservoir and showed all about the big venturi meter and oth- CT mechanical cOntrivances, connect ed with the system, of which there are great many. Mir kennedys ex- planation of the mechanism of the venturi meter was quite interesting and surprised Mayor Thoms so that he was puzzled to know how anybody could memorize the whole thing.
 Some Of the commissioners never were at the plant before and these were greatly surprised at the appear- ance of the place and thought 1t pity that all the people of Waterbury can- not get a chance to see It. One of the wonders pointed out in making the rounds is a hugh rock suspended in the top of a large tree that skirts the highway. It was blown up there when Edward McManus was blasting for the basin and got wedged in be- tween two branches and remained there sever since. the wonder Of ev- erybody who gets his eye on It.
 Dinner was served in cOxy cor ner near the earth dam, under the di- rection of E. Haywood and '. H. Loughlin. The party consisted of about twenty persons and included Mayor W. E. 1Thoms, Commissioners Finn. Walker, Nell and Dennison. Su- perintendent Kennedy, Engineer Cairns. City Clerk w. H. Sandland. Assistant City Clerk James K. Lawlor, Sheriff NJ. J. Smith, Assistant Comp troller w. ]. Shannahan. Health Of- ficer Kilmartin, School Clerk Fitz- gerald and representatives of the newspapers.