The evening world., 1912-05-11
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GALLONS Of WATER
ARE WASTED DAILY
Continued from First Page.)

INC rcIndHuer goes ID waste. 4 hcn IN
summer. when rainfall Is light, the IN
creased demand draws from the stored
supply. Last summer. az the water
line dropped foot by foot. the water Dc-
came foul and muddy. Complaints rose
on every hand, but no louder or more
forcefully eondemnatory than the odor
OF the same water especially when
heated. The dry and psrched ground
absorbed the extra" supply from the
disconnected reservoirs before they
reached the Croton.
To-day the water going to LOSE over
Croton Dam Is as pure as crystal. on
tho top OF the spIllway. where II seems
10 constantly poise curled for the down
ward plunge. II looks like a huge tele-
scope lens ;nat breaks into powdered
crystal on the coping sending up show
ers OF fine glass.
Half q mile away from the spillway
tho sound OF droning reaches the ear.
Coming closer. the waterfall Is seen in
rare spisndor. Under the steel arched
bridge the broad white cascade stands
out against tho background of hills.
and the gray cement structure. which
towers 200 feet above the swollen
stream. The roar OF the water over
tho spillwsy IN like nothing but Niagara
II IL deafsn.as.
The form of the dam sloping outward
with two foot stone coping like the
| steps UP the face Of the Pyramids 10
lost in the thick curtain OF water. The
breaking of the water on these steps
increases the roaring and throws out
| Q fns mist which floats on the wind.
~ .h.n hA
way down an extended stone founda-
| ton. juttinE out fifteen feet or more
catches the crashing volume and losses
II high and over tho edse. whore Il
drops another hundred feet into the 1T
tie Croton River Above tho dam the
river 10 little more than brook, below
Il 10 now a turbulent. rock battling
stream. swiriinS toward the HUDSON
two and . half miles away.
Croton Dam itself can hold no more
water. nor can 1t be built up In any
way. II was constructed according 10
Specifications for Just the height II now
10, and IN orr Ter TO increase Its capacity
the whole dam would have to be recon-
struc,cd.
POURING IN MORE WATER TO
THE LEAkY BARREL.
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day. Eight years ago the city was
confronted with . water famine. There
were two aoueducts. both very inade-
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