Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-06-14
MUNICIPAL PLANT
TO SUPPLY US
OUR WATER?
MAYOR AND HEALTH COMMITTEE
With POWER TO ACT, INSTRUCT
HYDRAULIC ENGINEER PHILLIPS
TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE
WATER SYSTEM.
ALSO TO ESTIMATE
COST OF new PLANT

Mayor Celso Lopez and the members
of the health committee from the
council who are in town, all being
present except A. B. Renehan, consist
ling of John Shoemaker and Romulo
S. Lopez, met yesterday with Hiram
S. Phillips. the hydraulic engineer,
IRON ST. Gollls. NIr I diiips cahre
here, as already stated at the
solicitation of the Santa Fe City Coun-
i Gil, to investigate the water works
ditions.
/ The party went up Santa Fe can
Iyon yesterday and looked over the
entire water course and plant. They
visited the present reservoir, the high
line ditch, the present power house
| in the canyon, and took a general sur
Ivey of the whole Typographical lay
of the land from which the water
comes, and how it reaches the con-
sumer.
Phillips and the report that he is ask
ed to make, it looks as If the city
might be contemplating the construc-
tion of municipal plant to furnish
Santa Fe with water Mr.. Phillips is
Instructed to make thorough exam
ination of the water system, beginning
as its source. the supply basin and
examination of the water as to its
quality and the quantity that Is being
and can be furnished the city and it's
consumers. He will also test the silt
at the bottom of the reservoir. He is
instructed to furnish careful esti-
mate of the cost of installing new
plant, complete. to include new res
ervoir. and everything from it's source
to its delivery. Tests will be made
and analyses rendered of the water as
to it's purity or filth. at it's source and
at the intake pipe where it comes to
the consumer. The engineer will go
into the matter exhaustively and make |
p survey of the whole water line and /
the city, with reference to the lay /
ing of pipes ,and will cover every fea-
ture and phase of the question as it .
relates to the needs of the consumer /
in the purity of the water and the .
that should be delivered.
A contract has been drawn with
Mr. Phillips and he will do the work
FOR 81 500. and it will take about three
months to complete the investigation.
The same work, practically, was done
or the city OF Raton, at a cost of
lbCut $4,000, with the result that that
3ity has decided to install munich
,al plant, and recently won its rights
o the waters from which the city re-
,eives its supply in contest before
he state engineer.
The mayor and the common council
ire thoroughly alive and in earnest
'egarding the matter of seeing to it
hat Santa Fe and its people get the
'ery best water, which at it's source
$ the finest water In the world, and
hat the consumers receive all the
vater that they are entitled to under
he charter now hell. by the Santa Fe
Water & Light company. The coun-
ii at its last meeting procured GER
flied copy of all the franchises ever
eld by the water company from the
ity and county and will use these
n the investigation that has been in :
tituted and upon which Mr. Phillips
sill report. The city is to be con-
ratulated that the council has been
live to it's interests in this matter
nd that steps have been taken to set
lie once and for all the whole matter !
+ our water supply and pro and con
he question.