The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-26
Additions to Water Works.


Since 1886 the following additions
to the original water plant have been
made by the Pensacola Water Com
pany:
pipe
lied iron pipe.
iron pipe.
2,76e nneal feet of 1 1-2inch wrought
iron pipe.
1900 HneaI feet of 1 1-4inch wrought
iron pipe
Eighty-nine two-way fire MIGRANTS,
with connection to mains.
Forty-eight 6-inch gate valves.
One steel tower and tank, 22X39
feet, 1o0, 900 gallons capacity.
One lot, S0x132, corner DeSoto and
Eighth avenue, for tower and tank
Two SO-h D. Erie City return tubu-
lar boilers to replace two 4O-h- p boil
ers originally placed in power house.
! One damper regulator.
Addition to power house, 1e-2x5S, of
brick.
Thirteen 4-inch wells, 100 to 40
feet deep, with suction mains COM
plete.
Five single acting Dean Holyoke
steam pumps for pumping water
from wells to reservoirs, with steam
pipe and fittings connecting them with
| boilers.
Two brick reservoirs with shingEe
roofs. one 6Sx95 by SGT feet deep, the
other 5S.33xs5 by $50 feet deep
, One lot 14ex175, corner DeSoto and
| Guillemarde streets upon which reSer-
voirs stand.
One lot 21ex3eo on GuilIemarde
street between DeSoto and Gonzalez
streets, upon which several wells are
1 driven.
One frame dwelling on above lot.
| The distribution system. including
foreign main. as it exists at this date,
6'255 HneaI feet of pinch cast iron
eS, 4s5 Iineal feet of e-inch cast iron
pipe
400 IineaI feet of 1-2Inch gaIvan-
lied iron pipe
500 lineal feet of 2-inch galvanized
iron pipe
2.76O IineaI feet of 1-2-inch wrought
iron pipe.
3,7G0 IineaI feet of 1 1-2inch wrought
iron pipe.
1913 two-way fire hydrants.
Five twelve-inch gate valves.
Seventy 6-inch gate valves.
| Or 1888 miles Of cast iron mains.
and 2.15 miles of small branches from
which the city of Pensacola derives no
service. These small pipes being ex-
| tended by the water company TO Jem-
porarIly furnish water to its patrons
in advance of the city's ordering fire
protection
Present Condition of Plant.
| Upon carefully examining the water
plant on or about August 1St of the
present year, the following condition
was found to exist:
The 10 driven wells were said 10
have been overhauled and cleaned out
in 1905, and were yielding a total OF
1,156 .SS6 gallons in "a hours
The total water consumption was
computed from the strokes of the
pumps made from August l, 1905. to
August 1, 1906, allowance being made
for the tested slippage of the pumps,
and found to be 1S9. 270,577 gallons
for the year. The maximum average
daily consumption being 62S.S44 gal
Ions, and the minimum average daily
consumption being 440,411 gallons.
There were 1906 taps connected with
the distributing mains, which at j
consumers per tap would make $3.50
consumers. As the average daily con
sumption of water throughout the year
was 51S.546 gallons. this represents
$40 gallons per capita per day Upon
this basis the present wells can sup
plv a population Of Il .227, no proviS-
ion being made for water used for fire
protection and sewer cleaning.
The two reservoirs were carefully
examined and found to leak at the
rate of 1882 gallons in "a hours,
which deducted from the daily yield
of the wells would leave 1.024,234 gal
Ions of water available for consump-
ton, sufficient TO supply $4,000 per
sons no provision being made for fire
protection. flushing sewers or sprink-
ling streets
The quality of the water which the
wells yield is of the best, in fact it is