New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-06-01
Plan is OUTLINED :
FOR CHEAPER WATER
Council Committee Considering
Installing Pipe Lines

Inc scheduled special meeting OF
the common council on next Wednes.
day evening to hear a report AND
recomm endation from the special
committee considering the Burlington
tunnel project will not take place Al
an adjourned informal meeting of the
committee last night the members
agreed that the task of obtaining aly~
necessary data and preparing a fair
and comprehensive report is too mo-
mentous one to hasten. and, as
result, they will ask that the council
adjourn and give them additional
time. Councilman George M. Landers,
who is one of the hard working mem
bers of the special committee, inject
ed a little emphasis into his opinion
last night when he said that he could
not understand why the board mem
bers, who are paid to handle the wa
ter situation did not discover the So
lutions that this special committee
has in mind.
Pipe Line Is Explained.
Chairman O. F. Curtis presided al
last nights. meeting. and others pres.
ent besides Mr.. Landers were Alder
man Angelo NJ. Paonessa, Councilmen
William G, Wall, Abraham Gorbacfl
and Albert F. Eichstaedt, clerk. The
water departments original plan was
to build a tunnel connecting up the
Burlington water supply with the
WhlgVllle reservoir at a cost of about
1926, 900, exclusive of property dam
ages Last night special maps were
consulted that all mem bers might be-
familiar with the situation, and the
general tone was one of oppositionrto
III
other feasible plan can be found
Chairman Curtis outlined a possible
plan of bringing the water supply
from the WhigvilIe, Fall and wild
cat brooks to this city by special pipe
lines at q much cheaper rate than q
tunnel and with but little trespassing
on private property that would neces-
state property damages being paid.
The Whigville' brook. 1t was ex-
planned has a capacity of abour
,1S7, 900 gallons of water every day,
while the Fall brook has a milliopI
gallons daily capacity, and the Wild
| cat brook has a daily capacity of
100000 gallons. The much-dis-
cussed leak at the whigvi1le dam is
estimated to lose about 400, 900 gallons
of water to the city every day. while
the reservoir itself holds only about
6o,OO0,ooO gallons. At the moment
the inlet to- this reservoir is closed
the maximum capacity has been
reached. .....
Mr. Curtis explained that the Fail
brook water supply is about on a level
with the Shuttle Meadow spillway and
he outlined a plan to bring this water
supply to Shuttle Meadow by grayita-
ton. The gravitation system is also
possible to bring that water into
Shuttle Meadow, he said, and added
that the Wildcat brook supply can be
easily brought there by the instalia-
ton Of a pump, unless it is decided
to be more practical to tap the stream
higher up, when gravity would also
bring that water into the lake The
practical ility of these schemes are be-
ing thoroughly Investigated by City
Engineer w. II. Hall and the en-
cheering department, and Mr.. Curtis
said that the city engineer. at present
favors this general plan for utilizing
the water of these three streams.
Cost Might Be Only S9,075.
After the various figures had been
discussed, Councilman Landers ven
tured the opinion that the water SUP
ply wastes each day a quantity equal
to the city's average consumption. He
thought 1t strange that this condition
had been permitted to exist Council
man WALL after estimating the cost
OF laying the pipe lines for the pro-
posed scheme as previously outlined,
said the pipe would cost In the neigh
borhood Of s9,075.