Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-12
MARYLAND TOWNS
TO GET D. c. WATER
Connections to Be Made
When Agreement Is Signed
by Local Commissioners.

Negotiations for the extension Of the
Districts water supply into nearby
Maryland communities have virtually
been completed by the District Com
missioners and the Washington SUBJ
urban Sanitary Commission, 1t was dis
closed today at the District Building.
The Districts water is to supplement,
in case of emergency, the supply fur
nished the area in Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties served by the
sanitary commission. -Four connections
with the District system are contem-
plated, although only one will be made
at the outset in the vicinity of Rhode
Island and Eastern avenues northeast,
which will provide District water for
Mount Rainier, Brentwood, Hyattsville
and contiguous communities in Prince
Georges County.
Authorization to extend the District
water service into nearby Maryland was
given the Commissioners more than 10
years ago, when Congress passed the
1918 District appropriation bill. Not
until the completion of the new supply
system which has provided surplus
for the District however, did the Com
miSSioners regard it as practicable to
permit the extension.
Pact Being Drawn.
An agreement is now being drawn
up by the Commissioners in accordance
with the terms laid down by Congress
in the act authorizing the extension,
and as soon as it is signed by the sani-
tary commission it will be permitted to
draw water from the District system.
The agreement will prescribe the rates
to be charged the sanitary commission,
and stipulate that the meters for the
Maryland supply shall remain in the
District and under jurisdiction Of the
Commissioners.
The agreement also will stipulate that
the water furnished the sanitary COM
mission shall not exceed the amount
that can be spared without jeopardiz-
ing the interests of the United States
or the District and in no event shall it
exceed 100000 gallons a day.
The rate to be charged the Sanitary
Commission, it was said, will amount
to about SOS per 10000 gallons. Con-
greSS gave the commissioners power to
fix the rate, but prescribed that it
should be based on the actual cost of
District, including an interest charge
of 4 per cent a year and a suitable
allowance for depreciation.
MIn1mum Oh COSts
The Commissioners figured that sos
million gallons would be the mini
mum Of cost to deliver the water to
the mains of the Sanitary Commission
at the District line. Approximately $35
of this amount was calculated to be
the cost to the United States to bring
the water to the Districts distribution
system. The cost of pumping the water
through the distribution system to the
District line and all other factors in
volved added $40 to the figure. The
interest and depreciation on the system
brought the figure up to sos.
Officials at the District Building
pointed out that the depreciation con-
sidered in making the rate involved
only the system through which the
water will pass to reach the District
line. The SOS rate, however, is higher
than paid by Arlington County, Va,
| for the water there is drawn from the
| Dalecarlia Reservoir. The Arlington
County rate is lower, it was pointed out,
because the water does not pass through
the Districts distribution system, but
| is taken directly from the reservoir of
the supply system, which is under Fed
eral jurisdiction. The Arlington Coun-