Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-06
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
 WATER COMMISSIONER
All Work Planned for Year Just Closed
 Has Been Completed.

According to the annual report of the board of water commissioners pre- sented at the meeting of the court of common council this week, receipts during the year amounted to $76, ,573.40, the disbursements $32, ,251.59, leaving a balance of s44.321.S1. The financial statement by quarters follows:
 April l to June 30, 1915, 1S,S34.70, $1o,013.19, $S,321.51.
 July 1 to Sept. 30. 1915. $1s,799.26, $8, 8,T81.31, $10,017.95.
 Oct. to Dec. 31, 1915, $20,908.34,
 Jan. i to March s1, 1916, $1s,5s1.1O, $5,420.19, $13,110.S1.
 Continuing, the report states that the estimate made at the beginning of the year of the amount to be turned over to the city treasurer was $46, 900. The amount actually turned over was | $57, ,238.82, of which $16,027.92 was the balance on hand. to be turned over at the beginning of the year, and $3,110.91 | is the amount now on hand to be turn l ed over after April l, 1916.
 All of the work planned for the year | was completed, and much work was | done and expense incurred which could not have been foreseen.
 Break in Franklin Street Main. On Feb. 24, 1916. we were called to l shut off the water from the service i leading to the Hopkins & Allen Arms I we discovered that there was a con- siderable noise on the Franklin street main. We took our detector and found 1 there was 9 large leak somewhere in the locality of Harvey lane, so called. The haSSan pavement was broken up and we found that one joint on the l 10-inch Franklin street main had been l blown out to the extent of about five | inches in circumference and as nearly as we can estimate the discharge we - l i7oc o1 rl@ water every 24 hours, at pressure of 80 pounds at that point. This leak or noise had been noticed for some few months, but the blowout did not ap- pear above ground, and was very hard to find.
 New Entrance to Gate Pit.
 At Fairview reservoir, below the em- l bankmentsf the main gates are locat- ed in a brick pit about 15 feet deep which, to get at. one would have to SC through two mamholes and down 6 ladder. This has been found to be very dangerous, as the valves have been there since the reservoir was , voir has been built, these valves have l to be shut off and reopened quite : few times a year, where they were only operated once a year, and some times not that, previously. Now WI
 have put in a new concrete entrance l and steps to the pit, making a direc
 entrance from the surface and an easy exit in case of accident.
 T At Stony Brook we have taken the z old wooden gates out of the old gris a mill dam. These were a source O. worry, as they were getting badly de : l cayed and might cause lot of dam. f age in high water time. This now
 leaves a direct course for the wate1
 from the Lefingwell pond to Ston.
 brook.
 We have had to lay some new mains 3 in the city which were not in tht
 estimates for this year, and where thu
 old mains were 1 inch and 1 1-2 incl ] sizes they were so badly filled up tha . it was for the interest of the depart
 ment to renew them. New mains fo the city are about all complete ant 8 taken care of, so all we will have tl 1 do now is to enlarge what is needed
 for more volume and fire protection.
 The rainfall for the past year wa 3 33.95 inches. This amount is 2.7 inches less than the preceding year
 In the month of August the precipita
 tion was 7.1S inches, which is excep . tionally high for that month. = Stony Brook reached it's lowest poin
 of the year Aug. 2, 1915. when it wa
 112 1-2 inches below full pond. A . this time Fairview was down inche h below full pond, leaving Stony Broo }. with 197, 100000 gallons and Fairvie1
 with S03, ,000,000 gallons.
 = Fairview reached its lowest point c X the year Dec. 18, 1915, when it was 8 v inches below full pond. At this dat
 we had stored in the two reservoir
 2S1, ,000, 900 gallons in Fairview an : 375,000, 900 gallons in Stony Brook. . On Jan. p, 1916. Stony Brook lille : and remained so until Feb. B.. On Eel
 26 it was g inches below full pond, an
 on Feb. 27 1t was fall. with an over Is flow Of 3 inches, and remained flu a until the closing of the fiscal wear. [. Fairview filled on March 5, 1916, an
 remained so until the close Of the yea : March 31, 1916.
 Great care has been given th
 watersheds the past year and the wats
 IS in excellent condition for the coniu
 year.
 The superintendents Report.
 The report of the superintendent