Evening star., 1922-02-08

they say. practically s1O.000.0OO to
provide new system we ought not
to be left at the end of six years in
l'is;sn practically the same condition in
made to one of the engineers, was to
connect the lines Of pipe which now
carry the water from the Mcmillan
reservoir or filtration beds to the
nigh level with this system, which
will of necessity be connected with
the Mcmillan reservoir by putting in
a bypass around the engine or pump,
and in the case Of the loss of use Of
this aqueduct under Rock creek you
would san1a get for practical purposes the
Mcmillan reservoir that it is now
furnishing to the higher levels. The
engineer admitted that it might be
worked out nicely. The line which
aneH propose to run from the Dale
cient to take care of the water con-
sumption on these two levels. You
could do the same thing. with refer
ence to the reservoir, by connecting
tne pottom OF the reservoir with the
Mcmillan reservoir to the reservoir
IN the highest or third level, and by
putting a bypass around that pump.
l. am informed that before they used
tne Mcmillan reservoir there was a
system by which this water was car
rled through to what we now know
as lower Washington, or the business
portion of Washington, without fill
tratlon, and that at some place not
more mo- than a hundred rods from the
distribution. and if you would connect
Ine uSe that runs southeast from the
Dalecarlia reservoir with the old
georgetown system you then would
nave practically what would give you
a a way to furnish water to all of
ia
nave dlf1culty with the tunnel
Discussion of Details.
When the engineer and the gentle
man from Virginia (Mr. Moore) and
We're considering this question I
asked the engineer to fix approx
mately what would be the cost Of this
connection from the old Georgetown
reservoir down to the old water sys-
tenn. He gave it at $13O,0Oo. and it
seems to me that is, quite reasonable.
suppose. however. that you make it
100000: that is but a little over 4
per cent of the cost of your entire
system-that is. of the improve
ment-and it does give you a dual
plant. Permit me to say that most
water systems have a dual or circu-
iating system. For instance. if a line
OF distributing mains is run up 18th
street and another one up 14th street,
with your pumping plant, we will say,
at + street, the proper thing to do is
to connect the north end of 18th
street with the north end of 14th
street, so that you have circulation in
your system. 1t furnishes an addi-
tional advantage. If You should have
break in your system halfway up
18TH street. You have only to shut off
the short part of the system in which
the break is located, and you can feed
from 14th street around to the north
end of 18th street and also up the
south end of 18th street.
1t does not seem to me to be the
proper thing to spend over $4,000, 900
and then have your system so that in
the course of ten or fEEeen years you
will be where you are now
In talking with the engineers it
was suggested that it would be much
harder to repair the conduit from
Great Falls down to the District line
than it would be to repair the line
from Georgetown reservoir to the
Mcmillan reservoir. 1 cannot conceive
how that can be.
In the one case YOU have to put
everything up and down shafts and
in the other there are many gates or
ways of getting into the conduit at
various places from the dam down to
the reservoir.
Another reason why I think there
ought to be hearings on this matter
is that these estimates were made
an thlngs were quite high. You
haN your report practically made in
1920. and if we would go into an
investigation into this system by
hearings had by the proper legisla-
tive committee and examine the vari-
Gus plans 1 think it would be very
much better. Now, these were the
reasons We had in mind besides that
Of the point of order when deciding
as we did with reference to this
appropriation.
'The legislative committee ought
to take it up and consider it both
as to costs and also as to efficiency.
The estimates in detail with the
plans ought to be examined so that
when you come to fix the authorize
tion you will be within the limit
Extract Bearing ON Issue.
That Representative Evans is not
antagonistic to the building of the
new conduit. but agrees that it
should be built. is shown by the fol.
lowing extract from the debate:
''Mr. Moore of Virginia-As I un-