Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-30
388 MILLION GALLON RESERVOIR
Gates at Cys New Water Supply at Stony Brook Will Be Closed Next Week Built Within Appropriation of $325,0OO-C Comes Within 62 Million Gallons of Doub- ling Ciy's Supply.

Within a few days probably by Tuesday next week, the city's new 3S8 million gallon reservoir at Stony Brook will stand completely ready to have the gates closed to begin to pond water. The little cleaning up that re- mains to be done can be finished by that time. it is stated by Supt. John J. Corkery.
 Daily Supply of 1,soo,ooo Gallons.
 Compared with Fairview reservoir, the city's present supply. which has capacity at full pond of 450 million gallons, the new reservoir comes with in 62 million gallons of doubling the present supply. and with Stony Brook reservoir in operation it is figured that an additional daily dependable supply of 1,sOO.OOO gallons will be furnished to what the city now has from Fairview.
 Built Within Appropriation.
 That the new reservoir will be com pleted within the $320,00O estimated for it by Engineers Chandler & Palmer and appropriated for it will be satisfy ing information for the citizens and at the same time will rebound to the credit of the local engineers, Chandler & Palmer, and to Supt. John J. Cork cry, who has given unremitting atten- ton for over a year to the innumera- ble details involved in the construc- tion of the reservoir, in all of which he has had the united support of the board of water commissioners, who have labored to give the citizens the best water supply that could be ob- tained.
 Up to the present time there has been expended or contracted for the sum of $3o3,0Oo for pipe line and ap- roip lfnn rights, water rights, and land. The remaining $17,000, it is believed, pro- ] vided for the possible expenses of | disputed water rights values in the cases of Charles $. Johnson, Celia R. 1 Cook, Patrick Good, and Humphrey 1 Gallivan.
 Larger Than at First Figured. | Originally figured at a capacity of | $50 million gallons, careful figuring by cross sections show that the capacity will be 3SS million gallons on basin area of 70 acres.
 | Plans Completed in April, 1911. Plans and specifications for devel- oping Stony brook as an additional water supply, were completed about | April 1. 1911. On account of the fact that numerous pipes and other ob- structions would be encountered in the city streets, and in order that the pipe line might be completed in good 1 season, and that there might be ample l opportunity for the employment of To- cal help, 1t was decided that the wa ter department should lay the pipe from Washington square to East Great Plain by day labor. and the balance of the pipe line was divided into sec tions numbered one and two.
 April 15, separate proposals were received for building each of the last mentioned sections of the pipe line
 and for building the dam and reser-
 voir. The contract for section one o1
 the pipe line was awarded Thomas
 Dodd and section two to Archibald
 Torrance, both local contractors. Contract Awarded.
 April 21, the contract for the dan and reservoir was awarded the Pe-
 trossi company of Hartford. MT. Pe-
 trossi was well known in Norwich
 having been superintendent for tht
 Hartford Paving and Contracting Co
 when Fairview reservoir was raised
 and the Taftvilfe sewers were built. The pipe line contracts were exc cuted April 24 and the dam and res. ervoir contract April 28.
 Dam Finished Last December.
 The main reservoir dam at Ston. Brook was completed last December :. and consists of an earth embankment , protected on both sides by stone pay