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Show CITY'S WATER SUPPLY COSTS $45,000 A YEAR Superintendent of Waterworks Frank Hines filed his report for 1902 with Mayor . Thompson Thursday. The report re-port shows that the total expenditure for the year was $45,150.50, as compared with $42,144.30-' for the previous year. Maintenance of the system took $23,-838.30, $23,-838.30, an increase of $3200.66 over the preceding year. There were 792 new service connections made during the year, which explains the increase. Improvements Im-provements during the year cost $1930.71, and the . cos of the plant and equipments equip-ments was $12,723.54. The water assessment for the year which . will end June 30th next amounted to $79,454.85, the supplementary supplement-ary assessment to $4014 and the meter assessment to $14,527.38, making a total of $97,996.23, an increase of about 10 per cent over 1901. The Superintendent estimates es-timates that the total amount collectable collect-able for the year ending June 30, 1903, will be $108,434.23, an Increase over 1901 of $10,000. According to the report there were 70,038 feet of mains laid during the year, making a total for the system in the city of 153 miles. The Superintendent says in the report that the installation of meters was the means of preventing a great waste of water during the famine season. There were 228 meters in use in the city during the year. The total expense of the street sprinkling sprink-ling department is shown to have been $29,136.05. There were 1241 blocks sprinkled, making the average cost per block $30.21. Mr. Hines. in addition to minor recommendations, advises that city canal water be used so far as possible for sprinkling purposes, and that where this is impossible cut-offs be put on hydrants to prevent damage to the hydrants by Inexperienced men. The abolition of all dead ends as soon as practicable is also recommended. |