Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-07
MAY BUILD NEW
PUMPING station
CITY COMMISSION CONSIDERING q
STRUCTURE TO TAKE PLACE
OF OLD ONE
TO COST ABOUT $4,000
New supply of Water May BE Pro-
cured From Gravel Beds up the
River Must Erect Building.

The city commissioners are con-
sidering the proposition TO erect a
handsome new water pumping sta
ton on the site OF the present struct-
river. The new station, as II is now
planned, would be one Of the larg-
est stations in the state, as we'll as
one Of the prettiest. Gardens would
be laid out around 1t. and the whole
| effect framed up so as TO make the
place one OF the city's principal
points of interest, and something
that visitors could be showed with
pride.
The present station will have to
be enlarged, anyway, it is said, In
the near future to make room for
the new six million gallon pump that
Will be installed shortly, and 1t is
pointed out that an entirely new sta
ton of brick and stone could be
built for two or three thousand dol
lars more than what the necessary
extension to the present building
would cost.
Would Cost About $4,000.
The plans, as prepared by Water
superintendent b. II. Sands, call for
structure, the total cost of which
would not exceed $4,000 and which
would be sufficiently large that to
house machinery capable of pumping
100000 gallons of water daily, or
enough to furnish a city of 10000.
Therefore, 1t is pointed out, this new
station would suffice for the clty's
needs for many years to come. The
present station Is below the high
water level, and at times eighteen
inches of water has flooded the in
Interior of the entire building. All
the present pieces of machinery In
the station is set a foot and a half
above the floor level so as to be above
the high water flood times.
As to Arrangements.
The new station would be 100 by
81 feet in outside dimensions. The
present four million gallon pump
would not have to be changed from
Its present location. The new six
million gallons pump that has been
ordered would be set along side of
it, and there is space left for a verti-
cal pump of ten million gallons ca
pacity in the same room. The inter-
ior of the structure would be so ar
ranged that an engineer could stand
in any part of the room and be with
nf Af
merry.
Water From Sand Beds.
The recent test wells, sunk in the
sand about a mile from the present
intake pipe, proved so successful that
the city will shortly begin laying a
line to that point and the water will
be pumped to the station from these
sand beds which are not in the river
channel. The new arrangement
would simply give a more abundant
supply, it is thought, and the water
would be much purer and clearer,
the grade of sand in the new loca-
ton being of better filtering variety
and the gravel being much better for
this purpose. No additional pumping
capacity will be required to secure
the water from the new location than
Is at present used.
Funds Come From Bond Sale.
The city has voted over 100000
In bonds for water works improve
ment, and as soon as n recent issue
Is sold, there will be more than
enough funds from which to procure
the money needed to build a hand |
some new station.
Tulsa municipal water works sy-
stem is one Of the most successful in
the southwest. and is one of the city's
best assets and biggest talking points. /.
The only disagreeable feature about
the whole thing at present is that
the condition and appearance of the I
present plant is such that Tulsans
are ashamed to show 1t to visitors.