New Britain herald., 1916-04-18

pairs on highway ($142.63) which is held for investigation.
 Consumption.
 Consumption from December 1914 to December 1915 was: factories 33,- 271,700 cubic feet, business and do- mestic use 76,7S8,60O cubic feet, total 165 5,O60,300 cubic feet, reduced to gallons 1,237, 7,952,250, divided by 365 days, shows a daily consumption of 3,391,600 gallons, estimated popula- uon 52,OOO, per capita consumption 67 gallons daily Consumption pre- vious year: factories, s2,S29,7oO cu- bic feet, business and domestic use SO,5S9,9O0 cubic feet.
 The increase in. factory consump- ton of 5,442,0oO cubic feet helped to offset decrease in business and do- mestic consumption of 3,801,3O0. which is about the same quantity of decrease as in 1914 from the first year of motor rate. which proves that waste and excessive use are being controlled or in other words the per capita consumption the first year was 76 gallons, while last year it was 67 gallons.
 City Engineers Report.
 City Engineer w. H. Hall who now has charge of the water department work submits the following report:
 1T have the honor of submitting for your consideration, the first report of the work done by the city engineering department on the extension of the water system for the year ending March 31, 1916.
 Organization.
 A force of four. men, consisting of an assistant engineer, instrum entman and two rodmen, with the necessary equipment, began the preliminary work for the extension of the water system in Burlington, the early part of April, 1915. The above force has carried on this preliminary work un- der the supervision of the city en- gineer and working from a field office located in Burlington Center The work has been somewhat hampered by the heavy rains during the summer and the excessive depth of snow dur ing the winter. '>
 Purpose of the Work.
 The purpose of this preliminary work was to obtain the necessary in formation, maps and plans. for the fu- ture development of the city's water supply in Burlington. A large amount of land has been purchased in upper Burlington for a proposed dam and reservoir and the necessary surveys have been made both for a pipe line and tunnel, to find the most feasible map of getting the water from this new supply to he Whigville reservoir from which point there is a pipe to the city.
 Watershed Surveyed.
 Searches were made in the Town Clerks office and the descriptions of the property, purchased on both water sheds by the city, were obtained. These deeds, however in no case, gave distances, bounds or directions and wherever possible the boundaries were traced throughout with former and adjacent owners. During the latter part of the fall and the winter about 710 acres of the property on the Bur- llngton Brook water shed have been surveyed and mapped, with distances and directions of each parcel of land being shown, drawn to a scale of 200 feet to the inch. The balance of the city property on the upper watershed, consisting of three parcels of land and approximately 65 acres have not as yet been surveyed on account of some dispute in the correct line but as soon as this matter is settled, the necessary surveys will be made and plotted on the property map.
 Surveys for a complete topogra phic map of the entire Burlington Brook watershed were commenced and a stadia line, ? F miles long, run to the western limit of the shed near Johnny Cake Mountain. The points already taken have been mapped to the scale of 200 feet to the inch
 Surveys were made on the Whigville watershed in order to estimate the amount of water that could be stored on this shed at a point about a mile west of the present reservoir. Stadia circuits IA miles long were run be- tween the present reservoir and the Milford street school house. The notes from these circuits have been reduced and plotted to a scale of 100 feet to the inch. The above information was obtained to find out the feasibility of constructing the proposed dam and reservoir at a point about 1a mile west of the present Whigville Dam. This matter will be reported together with an estimate of cost just as soon as the necessary information is ob- tained on the tunnel route. j