Show Fifth South Street I II I People Fear Reservoir jr Win Will Break Sometime Considerable criticism m attaches t to the Fifth East reservoir reservoir- iI which has been completed c by the present city administration tion n for the FIRST TIME e Engineers who have inspected the tile ne new new- reservoir built t at ta a acost cost of declare that it will have to be BUILT AGAIN in due course of time That the reservoir a as' as 1 it has been b built S is s a an engineering impossibility is t the e belief of at t least one than an wh who l has a ma made e a study of reservoirs H He He- believes that th the reservoir fr will never never successfully impound I gallons of water wafer for storage purposes The filling of the reservoir he asserts means mean that thousands of dollars worth of property will be hazarded and hundreds of lives endangered Faulty construction in his opinion n was not the cause of the break in the tile reservoir voir when an attempt was made to fill it with water a few weeks ago Instead he says it was due to an inke foke eno J The type of reservoir built bunt on the east bench this man declares cannot be successful under the form fonn of construction construction con con- built by the city adminis adminis- Mass meetings of protest have be been n suggested and hints of an effort to obtain in an injunction restraining the city from putting any water in the reservoir until it has been made safe have been let out Why Its It's Dangerous The ahe reservoir constructed under the direction of the city administration tion Is designed to hold gallons of water It is located on Fifteenth East and Fifth South and andis andis andis is built on a rolling slope It is known as a dishpan reservoir and has a depth of two thirty-two feet When the city y administration ob oh- oh tamed the reservoir site from the government teams and scrapers scrapers were wei put to work In the rolling sl slope pe a ahole ahole hole was dug The TIle basin itself constructed constructed constructed con con- of con concrete rete and steel expansion expansion sion slon joints was set inside of the hole Engineers assert that this would have been beeh all right if the city administration administration administration ad ad- ministration had turned the hillside around I As it 11 is the basin is set in solid ground for a depth of from twenty- twenty eight feet to eleven feet It is thirty thirty- two feet high on all sides On the I east side the point of the Intake the concrete basin is set in twenty-eight twenty feet or ot solid ground I Experts s Laugh at It On th west side there her is only el eleven ver feet of the built in itt solid ground The remaining twenty one feet project above the ground level and are backed b by a dirt fill It is is on this side of the reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir that the water is taken out for forthe forthe forthe the city distributing system Likewise Likewise Likewise Like Like- wise it is on this side that the strain comes Men who have inspected the reservoir reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir laugh at the hope of supporting two-thirds two of the weight of ten million million mil mu- lion gallons of water by a loose dirt fill fUl They declare that it is Impossible impossible impossible sible to throw third one-third of an Inclined in inclined In- In dined staff stat in a vise and then throw a tremendous weight on the unsupported unsupported unsupported ported two-thirds two and have it hold In the case of the reservoir they declare it is dangerous to the life and property of t tie the e people living in the immediate vicinity They predict a break if the reservoir is ever filled to capacity which will carry away the entire southwest corners of the reservoir Where Danger Lies S ch a calamity would send a five- five foot torrent of ot water down on the people below A section of Mt Olivet cemetery would undoubtedly be wiped out In the torrent and mud and water carried down don on the valuable residence residence resi resl- dence property on Fifth South street Life would be endangered and many might lose their lives if the break should occur at night I When the reservoir sprung a leak the first time water was put in it the leak occurred In the tho southwest corner just above the ground level or that part of the reservoir which has a solid backing It was was hurriedly emptied and little or no damage was done Those who have condemned the new reservoir declare ther there would have hav been a different story if the leak had started at midnight Th These se men want the fill which supports supports supports sup sup- ports the upper part of the basin re re- re As it stands it Is nothing but loose dirt There is no concrete or 01 reinforcement ment of ot any kind to give solid support to that part o of the basin A heavy rainstorm they declare would start this dirt fill fIll to settling and washing away probably causing a dangerous break in the west side of the reservoir Wall Too Thin Since the first leak was repaired another attempt has been made to filL fil the reservoir This Tiis had to be abandoned abandoned aban aban- when the water passed the foot fifteen-foot mark S Several veral small leaks were disc discovered vered Again the city commenced to draw off oft th the water The water was drawn off slowly and it was found that the reservoir was not water tight above the fourteen- fourteen foot mark or three feet teet above the ground level on the west side But the city officials believe that the leaks are nothing out of ot the nary The reservoir has been emptied emptied emp emp- tied tied and another force of men has gone to work worle Now they are paintIng painting painting paint paint- ing the inside of the basin with a special preparation of asphaltum hoping loping to tp stop the leaks The concrete concrete concrete con con- crete shell or basin in which the leaks have lavo been found has a thickness of from rom six to eight inches |