The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-03

a8 capacity of Connecticuts wa ! <x worl<s systems is today one and &M&- -hMR times what it was ten w1axA ago, their storage facilities &kVzng been made 56 percent great << during the past decade, a study e statistics on storage capacities n fl1e with the Connecticut public 1 hzzIlifaee commission reveals. Ten years ago. the total storage ! Ennacftv of Connecticut's reservoirs Sess 90 billion gallons. Today 1t is ] &a billion gallons, an increase in ! me one decade of 21 billion ga- kons.
 This growth in the vast plant l Ep1,ich furnishes Connecticut with E<a water supply has come both Fxom the construction of new reser- wolra. standpipes and storage tanks, and from the expansion of older facilities by such expedients as raising the height of reservoir Sems 50 that more water would be 37npounded. With the present oapacity of its reservoirs and stor-a are basins, Connecticut Is well for 61lled against drought even of pro- <<acted duration.
 All Of this increased capacity has i been developed by private oper- nfed companies, their reservoir napacity having been expanded dur ing the 10 years from IS billion to 2s,5 billion gallons or by 11S per cent. The total capacity of the
 municipaIly operated water utilt- { 8ies has remained practically un- altered in the past ten years. ale though many individual plants were built to great capacities. while there were many impor- ] Hanf Improvements in the water works systems during the decade, fhe largest was the construction or fhes New Haven Water company's North Branford development, fesignated since it's completion as Lake Gaillard. This project alone added 13 billion gallors to the states capacity for water storage. Tn addition the New Haven com- panv during the same period fur fher increased it's capacity by the addition of Lake Menunkatuc and Lake Branfords and constructed two standpipes in West Haven and Hamden. and one in New Ha- ven.
 The Greenwich Water company storage capacity through the Brush added 3S4 million gallons to it's Diversion Dam reservoir in Stam- ford together with a vast but un-
 measurable capacity in the Byram river diversion project. The Stam- ford Water company, chiey through It's big Laurel reservoir expanded it's capacity by 2.3 billion gallons. Last year a connection was com pleted by which the Greenwich sys- tenn is benefited by the big apacity of the Laurel reservoir.
 Construction of the Easton Lake 1 reservoir by the Bridgeport Hy- Fdraulic company, the largest reser- !woir in Connecticut until the com- pletion of Lake Gaillard, raised the storage facilities of Bridgeport and Ienvirons by 4.3 billions of gallons. lThe Ansonia Water company by its Inew Fountain Lake and enlarge Iment of its Peat Swamp reservoir l lbocnted it's capacity Considerably,
 nhile the Torrington Water com
 Ay increase its storage by TAO
 Hllion gallons through the Reuben IE1art, Hart Brook district and AL lien dam district reservoirs. South |1Eanchester added 116 million gall Brook reservoir.
 The Northern Connecticut Pow 1T company enlarged the original capacity of it's Thompsonville plant and raised that of it's Windsor Locks plant to ofur times it's orig tnal figure.
 Among the municipally operated water utilities, Norwich expanded storage facilities by 4S6 million gallons with the addition of the Deer River reservoir and the en- 1argement of the Stony Brook ! basin. New London added 80 mill lion gallons by increasing the capacity of Lake Kononmoc in Wa terford and Montville and the ad- dition of a service reservoir. Nor walks first taxing district enlarged