Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-08-11
CTS BRIGHT
FOR EASRT WATER
IN THE NEAR future
Engineer Alfred NJ. Quick, OF
Baltimore, Engaged no Make
Survey And Submit Plans
SOURCE or SUPPLY AMPLE

Preliminary steps are being taken
IN regssrd ID extending the cigy water
system to the village of Eastpors. aa 8
result of the long standing need for
supplying ample water 10 that sec
ton.
The directors Of the Annapolis Wa
Tier Company last month authorized
the President ia have q survey made
Iby an engineer IN order that the most
feasible method u extending the
mains across ne creek ana furnish
Ing water to Ezastport might be ascer-
tained together with estimates of the
cost of the undertaking, President
Melvin engaged Alfred MT Quick, for
Einer Water Engineer of the City of
baltimore and recognized authority
ion city water systems, to make the
survey, and tn prepare tentative plans
for the improvement Mr. Quick ls
nov I'll work on report which Is ex-
pected To be submitted iii 4 few days
For d number 0g years The water
supply of Fsastport has bean regarded
as source 0f danger 10 the plIniic
health Being drawn altogether from
wells. these have. III some instances.
become polluted Recently Rr. Muir
piiy, the County Health officer, AT the
direction Of the County Commissioners
and nr. IN. G. Stone. the District Dep
ufy OF the state Beard of Health. visit
sed Passport and wetlt thoroughly over
the situation. IT Ii understood that
action BY the State Hoard Is nov held
iii abayanee pending the result of liti-
gation IN number of towns In Mary
Land affecting orders 81 the board.
ii Is an interesting fact. as several
times pointad ont By tie osl,ecrg Of
the Water Company ard eTgineers sgli1
IA Fals Hstiaa-
ton. Tint the source of the City's
water supply. With the engagements
and improvements already made and
contemplated. Iii ample not only for
the CITY of Annapolis for many years
TO come. but also for the Naval Acaii-
.elny. for E.astport, and the enyirons
1T the City. provided the supply be
reasonably conserved
The two streams from which the
supply Is drawn hare an average daily
capacity og three million gallons Of
wafer Less than half of the capacity,
of these streams Is actually pumped
into the City. The rest is necessarily
let 20 to waste because Of tnrhidity
and unsitnesa for use due. principally.
to dIscol0ratiOn from rains. The &C.
tual storage capacity oE the present
reservoirs il forty seven million fiye
hundred thousand gallons. ;he nuns
Der og reservoirs being three. In time
Of rains when the water Is muddy all
the daily stream nov must be rim on
and only the water In t'se clear water
Lasin can be used the most Ut The
st0red water being made turbid.
IT Is understood that this Is where
the argument for filtration plant Is
made by the authorities of the State
Board of Health. II IL pointed out
that il such portion of the whole sup-
ply aa is pumped Into the City could
he made clear and pare hy altration
plant tl1eye would be absolutely no
waste: that all the water that comes
into the City would be ilt for use and
the volume Of the supply at the spiRots
ia fhe town and its suburbs being
solely regulated by the capacity of the
filters