Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-04-24
WATER MONDAY
FROM NUUANU
Work On Big Contract
Is Going Ahead
Steadily

On next monday, Acting Governor
Mott.Smith will turn the valve Thu,
will throw powerful stream of water
direct from the new reservoir at the
| Nuuanu Dam into the city mains. All
of the pipe into town has been laid,
| everything is In preparation for what
| is, however. only the beginning W
the end of the construction work Of the
| giant dam, and when the Acting Gov.
| ernOr gives the little twist that will
send the water shooting down the long
lines of pipe, IL will be The first com
plete step in the work that is going
to furnish this city with splendid
water system.
Superintendent of Public Works
| Marston Campbell got tired of con.
| tinually answering reporters quCs.
lions as to the progress ON the Nuuanu
dam, and yesterday afternoon he took
| representatives of the press all over
the dam. explaining the various cngi.
nering problems and pointing out the
many points of interest. The strik.
ing characteristic about the whole
work is the smoothness of operation
in the preliminary construction. There
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| every man knows what he has to do.
and consequently each part of the
| job Is forging ahead. The energies o!
a greater number of the men are di.
rected towards the filling of the lower
side of the largest gulch with massive
stones which are brought from quar-.
ries on each side of the gulch. The
big boulders are brought down from
the quarrics in little tram cars, the
track ON which they run projecting
out over the fill several feet, and the
rocks are dumped out here. a new
quarry has recently been opened in
which better class of stone has been
found This will be used exclusively
in the manipulated facing Of the front
slant OF the dam. Contractor White.
house stated yesterday that he OK.
pected to have this rock fll complet.
ed in less than twenty days, when
preparations for sluicing would also
be completed.
Just back of the big ruck fill, on the
top of the main dam are two trestle.
at present which will be used for the
fumes for sluicing. The third an
highest ilume will reach into the ali
thirty.fiye feet In the basin the wat
err backed up by the dam is very low
at present, but II quickly fills up IN
case of rains or, storms. Ample pro
vision has been made for waste watcl
| in case Il should so fill up that the
dam or pipes might be in danger
There is one underground tunnc
which would carry great amount o
l In
needed. This is built around the Wal
kiki side of the dam and rock fill.
The main basin which will have II
Il about thirty.five million gallons o
water, will be drained by two centrll
ugal pumps each capable of shooting
Ave cubic feet of water per seconi
up the hill $50 feet, where the pres
sure will be continued by two NOR
pumps that will force the water aloni
the hill on practically the same leve
MS the sluice pipes. Through -four
inch hydraulic nozzle, and forced b.
the power of the strong pumps thu
water will shoot out against the sid
of the mountain, washing It out and Il
the same time carrying the mud re
suit down in the sluice bitches to I'll
the dam. Marston Campbell state
yesterday that there was no doubt bu
that the contractor would have every
thing ready inside the time limit.
p There Is one notable fact connecto
with the work on the dam under tn
new contract, and that is that wit
the exception of the contractor alone
there is not single man workin
J who was employed before Complet
harmony exists between the contract
or and the Superintendent, and every
thing seems to point to a successfu
completion of the work within the RI
lquired time. Although the dam give
the appearance of having great dea
Of work done on 1t. 1t was stated yes
lterday that everything so far done wa
merely preliminary to the real worf
= Il Is an immense piece of work.
yeritablo lake will cover the gree
valley for almost n mile across an
back up towards the Pail a long dl'
lance. It was even suggested yestel
day that the Pail be dug out it'll
so that the back water from the dar
could flow into the proposed pin,
apple lands in Kaneohe. But the su!
: gester was promptly squelched