Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-15
PLANS ARE READY
FOR WATERWORKS
Experts Employed by the City
Explain What They Propose
to Do.
NEW EQUIPMENT NEEDED
Fred J. PosteI, in Charge of Inside
Work, Declares There Is Evil
denee of Leakage.

City commissioners spent the morn
associated with W. S. Shields, con-
sulting engineer, R. o. Friend, resident
engineer, and c. D. McLane of Rock
Island considering improvements to
be made at the waterworks. Mr..
Postel is in charge of inside work,
while Mr.. Shields is supervising out
side work.
so far We have been planning the
details of the work and have not made
much Of an, outward showing" said
Mr.. Postel discussing the situation.
From now on, however, we can begin
to show results, provided the commits
sion authorizes us to carry our plans
into effect. We have now gone about
as far as the authority vested in us
warrants"
SUBMITS RECOMMENDATION
Following are the recommendations
which Mr.. Postel submitted to the
commission:
Boiler room equipment - There
should be stokers under ali four boil
ers, as we'll as coal and ash handling
equipment.
tight by waterproofiug materials in.
side. The excavation for the new
centrifugal low lift pump is practical
ly completed.
New low lift pump unit-Bids
should be received on a surface con
denser and for wet and dry pumps
suitable for this service.
Piping-Bids should be received
for furnishing material as per plans
We have outlined, which have beer
} prepared for the steam piping for the
, entire station. The piping, as planned
} is laid on the loop system with SUI
, flcient number of valves in the line t
make possible the shutting off of on,
) section for repairs without interferin.
; with the remainder of the plant. TIL,
installation of the piping should b,
by day labor under the supervision o
the resident engineer.
Measuring devices and cost system
"A main station meter, feed waite
meter and an automatic coal seal
should be installed at once, and a sys
e tenn of daily records kept One of til,
: most serious defects with the preesn
plant is the lack of measuring instrr
e ments necessary to determine the cos
+ of all production
Present high lift pumping equiv
+ ment-Determine as soon as possibl
: the steam consumption of the HOLE
e pump per 1000 gallons After thi
e test is made the question of whethe
or not the installation of a new hig
+ pressure pump will be justified fror
an economic standpoint can be settled
i At present practically all of the puml
ing is done by the Holly pump, tn
I two Deane pumps being used merel
for emergencies.
OUTSIDE LEAKAGE.
Losses outside the sta.ion-On tn
question l prefer that Mr.. Shield
= who is directly in charge of that pa
of the work, shall pass Let him d
q eide what shall be done to stop til
v outside waste whether by metering
part or all of the consumers or /
searching for underground leak
Without question there is an excessiy
waste of water, either in undergroun
mains or by consumers. All the re
!, concentrations made merely proviC
= means for delivering the water to tn
capacity of the present pumps, into IL
=. mains at the building wall and vii
y. great economy. They can have I
n effect in increasing the pumping c
q pacity or stopping waste outside II
. station.
ID Recommendation is made that II
n. city commission authorize the insts
O. lation of new equipment which W
le cost $4,000.
r assumed a Dictatorship was FAT.