Water ! Water ! Water!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3579, 30 September 1905, Page 3

Water ! Water ! Water!

KIDDER’S SCHEMES AGAIN. *’lo THE EDHOI4 OP THE MiNAWA'rU HERALD. Sir, —As the WAM: 'scheme is under discussion, and likfcly to be for , some tittle to com®, fto that it is not at all probable that anything will be done to provide water for the town ship this coming dry season, I would suggest that something should at once be done *.o conserve the wMct of the preser,' £ artesian well that is continually pumping lb waste, night and dVy, whether the windmill is pumping torwot. This could be easily done at Ifoe small expense ot £6O, as an oil •engine and suitable pump would keep four 400 gallon tanks sufficiently Ifull to supply the water-carts all the year round; but if more was required, two more tanks. leaking, in ail a,IOO gallons, could be kept full by adding a Hydraulic Ram, which, if started when the oil engine was stopped, would be pumping fp? the balance of the 24 hours, say hours, so that by the time the y,’a 'engine got to work next morning there would be a good store of in the tanks, saving hundred, s 0 £ gallons of good water that otherwise would have run to waste. As is Is possible-) if the end of the pipe fe dowte in soft ground that 'iftrough tfea action of continued P’aftipiiig, bring particles of sand to «ariace, a cavaty may have been maformed, storing a quantity of water. A sufficient quantity of water Would Ihen be found to warrant the 'erection of a concrete tank feet in diameter in the triangle near the windmill, and connecting the Mam Sfreat with it> by 4 inch pipes under culverts ((as in a previous letter), • but If it does not come up to these •expectations, then instead of going to a distance, and putting down another artesian well to an unknown depth, when there may be or may not be water th'at wottm flow to the surface, I am sure SI would be better first, to put alwo inch pipe down the present threat inch pipe, and drive it, say, 50 feet, or so deeper, it is then as likely to strike a good supply ot water, as tlia one proposed to be put down near the race course; ii it did and the two inch pipe was not lound large enough, for the requirements, it would be better to drive a larger pipe by the side of it, as then you would be driving to a certainty, instead of too an uncertainty; the two inch pipes could be drawn, and the flow would gradually increase as the water made the hole, made by the three-inch pipe, larger; there would then be, two threeinch pipes instead of one, and that at a very little more than the cost of one, as the twc-inch pipes would not be ,

lost. Now when that is done, it will be lime enough to discuss the concrete . tank and pipes, as they of course depend entirely upon the supply of water and where it is procured from. Thanking you for your kindness in allowing me so much space.— l am, etc,, F. Deßidder.