Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-22
ACTION
FOR MORE WATER
URGED IN REPORT
Suburban Sanitary Body
Presents Views on
New Projects.

Presents Views on
New Projects.
Urgent need for early decision re-
garding the enlargement of the water
supply of the District with a view
to the surplus being made available
to supply contiguous Maryland COM
munities. is emphasized in a report
made public today by the Washing
ton suburban sanitary commission.
1t is pointed out that the Maryland
legislature is now in session. and I'M
less rights are obtained from the
Maryland Legislature this winter. lit
tie progress can be made toward
obtaining Patuxent river water for
the National Capital during the next
two years.
There is a bill fathered by Rep
resentative n. Zihlman of Maryland,
who is a member of the House Dis
trict committee. which has been pass
ed by the House and unanimously re-
ported by the Senate committee,
which is now pending on the Senate
calendar This Zihlman bill provides
for the appointment by the Secretary
of War of a commission to study the
proposed plans for adequate enlarge
ment of the water supply of the Ma
date neighboring territory. and car
rying an authorization for appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the expenses of
such commission. Effort will be made
to get this measure passed in the
Senate. at once.
Report of Wide Interest.
The report of the Washington
suburban sanitary commission is OF
interest not only to residents of the
National Capital, but to all the peo-
pie of Montgomery and Prince
Georges counties. This commission.
of William T. s. Curtis Of
Chevy Chase, T. Howard Duckett of
and Emory H. Bogley OF
was authorized to conduct
water and sewer systems on scien-
tiAc plan in territory contisuous to
7kon has tapped the sewer mains Of
the District and has been authorised
to tap the water mains to the extent
OF 100000 gallons a day, pTQvided
that the water supply of thu Dis
trict is not jeopardized.
Two new projects for modifying
the original Patuxent river plans pre-
yiously recommended so as to include
the development Of Northwest branch
and possibly Rock creek, thereby Sc
curing for both the District OF CO.
lumbia and the sanitary district an
water supply in much
shorter time, and probably at lower
expense than would be possible il the
Patuxent river projects previously
urged by the sanitary commission or
Lieut.. Col. Langfitt's Patuxent river
plan, are discussed in this report. =
Estimnte OF Cost Not Presented.
Owing TO unsettled conditions and
to the need for early action no es-
innate of cost was attempted, and no
ndation is made as TO whlch
of the two projects would De more
favorable for adoption either as con-
Germs the city of Washington or the
Washington suburban sanitary dis
trict. Nor has there been any at
tempt to compare them from the
standpoint of cost with, either of the
two plans previously presented Tor
delivering Patuxent river water 10
Washington. :,
eft is manifest, however" the re-
mort saws. that both of the projects
set forth in the report have many
advantages, aside from the length OF
time necessary for execution. over
the Patuxent plan favored by the
ARMY engineers, and either one could
be finished long before either OF the
two Patuxent river projects hitherto
presented could be executed
In the recent consideration OF the
Names bill in the House, for abolishlng
the haif-and-hah system OF financing
the National Capital, emphasis was
the credit of the District in the federal
Treasury is needed for a permanent i'm
proyement of the water system
New Project Plans.
The new projects now set forth as
result OF further studies 10 deternlne
upon the most suitable Independent sup
piv for the Washington suburban sanl-
tarv district are set forth as follows:
project | contemplates the ultimate
development of a water supply OF l7O,-
OOO, 900 gallons daily. during the driest
weather, and the immediate develop
ment of a supply of 100, 100000 gallons
daily. The immediate supply would be
obtained by developing the Patuxent
river. SO as to deliver 100000 and
Northwest branch 100000 gallons a
day. This supply would be reinforced
when necessary in the future. by de-
ve!oping the Middle and Little PatuxeR'
river. so as to yield 100000 gallons
daily. AZ. OOO, 900 TO be obtained from the
Middle Patuxent and 2s,0Oo,0o0 from the
Little PatuXent
Under project / water would be with
drawn from the supply line at a poin,
near the Blair road east of Silver Spring
where publication works would be con-
structed and operated by the Washing
From these works the filtered water
would be distributed by gravity to those
sections of the sanitary district lying
in Prince Georges county and be pumped
TO the Montgomery county areas.
When the consumption of water in
the District of Columbia and the
sanitary district shall become sc
great that the 100, 900, 000-gallon daily
additional supply. available under the
immediate development of project l
is no longer sufficient, the project
proposes the addition of a supply OF
. 10 GOO 900 gallons daily by the con.
struction of impounding reservoir.
on the Middle and Little Patuxen
rivers. The Middle Patuxent reser.
yoir would be formed by the con
struction of dam, approximate,
1O5 feet high, about one and hal
miles northwest of Savage. The tota
capacity of this reservoir would b,
about 15.5 billion gallons, Ills bill
lion gallons of which would be availa
bile. The Little PatuXent reservoi,
would be formed by the construction
of a dam. approximately fifty-five fee
high. just west of Guiiford The tota
capacity of this reservoir would b.
about 6 billion gallons. all but o..
billion gallons of which would b,
available.
The course of the supply lin,
would be along the Baltimore Wash
ington road, the laurel Washington
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