The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-12
Residents Awakened Before Day Break By Rushing of Waters Which Flood Many Blocks and Fill Cellars Trolley Traffic Interrupted.
Increased Water Pressure From stThe He1nlocks, 7 New Reservoir, Plays Havoc with Plumbing Through dityLNo Use Now For Fire Engines. /

Resfdeuts Of C1inton .venYe and North avenue. east of Clinton, were awakened at about o'clock this morning by a pounding and banging and the rush Of water. When they looked out the windows the residents of each street saw rushing rivers; ba1rnping curb stones trap rock and gravel up against snoops trees and hedges.
 The increased uressare caugsd by the use of The Henalockz the Bsdgepcrxs Fly drau9acr Co.'s new EaHton Brooklavn ana North avenues on the north side of the trolley tracks. Tn a few minutes tons Of sand gravel bricks fr,ozn the casing, the curbstones tha1 had been 1oosened on Clinton ave nas before xeaay1ng for the new War rendte, coBbaes and aH the neaps o1 dirt thaG had been made by excsya- tion ia prepaxation for ya1e new pave n1enf wsn& sailing down Clinton ave- me and turned the corner at Fairfield averue- me banging of the rocks agafnst anzped7mantz awoke the sciti- 1zsna.
 rs1fnhun ayvenzae Several cellars were filled and three fesf of water soon SfoVyed through The street. Deposits Of ,saxsd as1sr,aI Inches thick were made h 1fae r0adEvay on Clinton avenue and on some of the lawns
 Inc Bridgeport Hydrauf1c CO had lately hesn doing some spsc1a1 work at that corner and a connection was made, placed within brick com s1ssz.fxneut The big 4s inch main comes through North AVenue and 1hencsesou4h on Clinton At tho june ton f14a big Eaugp@1ad been p1aceL
 nerea9 the plug ta1at croKe aI Esaal- E1l1l g7a7a azndS Clinton avenues and d1d dam saszs aaae day before yesterday WzRs "A inches, this one was 4a and the flow .,e wster- was coHespondanE9y greater through the streetz-
 Toe break occurred al 1,45 o'clock The gauge at the Watar street eon- rztrT1cstion plant of the company had 5zast showed To pounds pressure but it dropped to A. When the company WasA notified of the break xzor4uaen shut the water or on tne reservoir side and at Eia1rfetu avenue. Tn the meant7zne, however, the district was a pond, the trolley tracks resern- b4ed skeleton bridges over canyons and sfl1e nelEhborhood was in a batteTeo- looking condition
 TTsorAxnen of the company were n7aced on Che scene and when the wa szhoveled and caxted away the gravel sefonea and dirt that had ceen deposit i<z7 sya over che ne1ghb0rhood- Tons of + were heaped at the corner. When ltE7ety got fhrough the scene looked as if a bic, shell had struck there, as the lresuftsna hole had haIed with water. ,,
 Four hand pumps with three men 10 a pump were put *o work to empty .f17e hole and remove the water from flae section Of pipe extend1ng from f1aax corner to Fairfield and Clinton avenues They pumped for an hour but seemed tD be making no pro- xress. The company then borrowed G41e Watrous Engine, No 2, from the fire department, and with this pump Ing 800 gallons a minute to the 100 of k41e combined hand pumps, the water was carried away in two sewers with m three hours Trolley service was he'd up and Che point was made 8 ter ra411al with ''turnbacks running in pdther direction.
 ErI1e entire Brook1awn section was without water until o'clock Then Wa1xfe1d was shut of at Ash Creek and the sarnp Mortar pond was con nected with Bridgeport As water h the center of the city was hard 6o obtain all morning. owing to the low pressure. the pumping station in North Bridgeport was put to work and khe pressure was restored to nor ual-
 Cellars on Wood avenue. where the water also flowed, have foot of water n them. Some on North avenue are aeeper than that The Bridgeport Eoach Lace Go. was unable to get up bower because of the accident.
 The situation was further conp1- lated today by the fact that the Is land Brook reservoir is not connected Sz1the local system. A break occurred ha the 2& inch main, going through the woods, and this. wasn't repaired until late today,
 Plumbers all over the city were on khe jump today because of the many breaks in plumbing. Boilers and lead piping were bursting all this morning 6nd yesterday and many plumbers worked all night.
 Another feature of the increased pressure is that the city will not have b use steam engines for pumping wa Ter at fires in the residential sections. The increased pressure makes the use Bhe engines unnecessary for ordinary buildings.