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Show CITY WATER SUPPLY EASILIMWCREASED Commissioner Korns Submits Plan to Expend 535,000 and Do Much. USE ARTESIAN WELLS Proposal Will, It Is Under-' Under-' stood, Receive Favorable Consideration. A project whereby the. old artisan wells near Liberty park, the ilow l'rom which now runs to waste, can be made to contribute b',000,000 gallons daily tlow to the general water system of the city at an original cost of S'Jfi.OOO aud at a maintenance coat of about 1 cent per 3000 gallons, was outlined to the city commission at its executive session ses-sion yesterday morning by "V. H. Korns. commissioner of water supply and waterworks. Mr. Korns would pump the flow from ,the old wells, amounting to 1,000,000 gallons daily, into the city mains and would bore new wells in the same vicinity, vi-cinity, establishing pumping units with a capacity of 1,500,000 gallons. The first unit would take care of the present flow and the flow from one or two additional ad-ditional wells. Other units to handle other wolis could be established as fast as needed at a small cost after the lirsl. outlay. Tho total supply possible to be obtained bv this method is placed at not lcs than 0,000,000 gallons, which is .slight I v more than one-fourth of the total present water sunnlv. Would Help in Winter. As a reserve supply to be pumped into the iniiins when the regular supply is short, in the summer and in the winter win-ter when the freezing of the mountain streams curtails iho regular flow, the proposed new supply -would adequately solve the problem, it is said. The pumping pump-ing stations would be put in operation only when necessary, thus curtailing tho expense to a minimum, Tho commissioners received the proposal pro-posal with favor but it was declared that the citv docs nol. have funds enough on hand at present to undertake tho project, at, once. It was decide.! un-ofiicially un-ofiicially that 'the plan should receive consideration in the budget for tho coming com-ing year. The wells il is proposed to put in use were driven twenty-two vents ago and the original flow " was ' 3,000.000 daily. All of them are in poor condition condi-tion now and but one-third of iho former for-mer flow is now apparent, according to the report of C. F. Barrett, superintendent superinten-dent of waterworks, who has been investigating in-vestigating the feasibility of the plan for several weeks. Estimating the Flow. Mr. Barrett measured the flow from one of the wells and found that it is fifty-one gallons per minute. He judges from this that a new six-inch well would flow 1 HO gallons a minute ami that ten tax-inch wells would supply 1,500,000 gallons daily. The cost of digging new wells would not exceed :rSlU each complete, according accord-ing to Mr. Barrett's estimates, it is held to be more practical to dig new wells than to clean the old ones, which havo become filled with gravel and dirt. The cost of a pumping plant to. discharge dis-charge the vvatcr obtained from tho wells would To about $1U.O0O for one unit, each unit, supplying 1.500.000 gallons. gal-lons. Kach additional unit would cost $5000, and figuring four units lo handle han-dle tho total possible supply, the total cost of the project, including the cost of driving Ihe additional wells, would not exceed $:!5,n00, it is said. This figure fig-ure as compared to the cost of obtaining obtain-ing a similar supply from the mountains is considered remarkably low. |