WATER SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 8

WATER SUPPLY.

— +* — COMPREHENSIVE REPORT.

A HE AD WORKS LOAN

d T rtll 7n esfwtho.edcßirou.ol , value. and .nte«» ling the operabecoming iixformea fe ._ tions of this imporant biantl , cipal activity. M> < • . tho dopaP t- > has take., each Jrancn , ( mont and ha* g»™ • tho progress o , activities and alsool ved . it works during the F»odj^ blo reCord ' is, y ■ when he > showing tho state t . md took office » of other essen- : equipment of costs, tinl details. , b dealing The section of M 1 ® «„b l divided into ■a? isssst.- %»a Proposed Extensions. I Regarding total yield, a table aborts that tbe total pumped from oIJ jtaUon. increased from 104,724,600 gal l ™ B > n 1910 to 981,777,300 gallons- m 192U The total quantity, that could bo pumped on a daily basis up to March dlst, 1920, is -riven as 4,958,600 gallons. The actual average consumption per -* hours in 1023-20 was 2,G30.50i>; the highest consumption per 21 hours iiab 4,093,800; average- cost per million gallons, £6" 16s 6cf; per thousand gallons, 1.38 d. .... At no period in the year, says the report, has there been any difficulty in meeting the consumption. The question w6uid have been otherwise if the opposite conditions had prevailed, i.e., a stahty rainfall with ft prolonged spell of hot weather, when th& pumping capacity would have been strained to its utmost to meet the demand for water; hence the nocessity for action in increasing the existing supply. The loan proposals for the headworks —£74,3oo—required in connexion with tho proposed extcusibns of the water supply system, interest and other charges which were to bo a charge on tho whole City—were rejected ftn two occasions. To get over the difficulty the City .Solicitor suggested that the whole oV greater. part of a new proposed loan for tho headworks should bo raised by six separate loans—one on each of the five special areas and one on the entire City, or on a special area to' b6 constituted, consisting of the City as it stood before the boundaries were enlarged. Each of tho five special areas, said tho engineer, may fairly .be charged with its due proper* tion of, the cost of headworks without which its reticulation would be useless. It would bo fair, also, that tho wholG City area should be charged with some small part of the loan.