ank had been expended. Extinction of Fires. —lf it ba wished -,o provide a supply which will give i sufficient pressure to extinguish fires directly from the mains without using portable fire engines, I would recommend the following scheme ; '.The water would be taken from the main creek at the lower end of the gorge, where a small dam would have to be built across the stream. Thence a fiveinch pipe would lead to a service reservoir on the spur behind the town to hold 400,000 gallons. From the reservoir a six inch service main would ba laid into the town, and along Queen street, with a Sin cross main down High street. This would deliver a little over 250’,000 g-dlons for twenty-four hours, and would be ample for all purposes of domestic supply and fire extinction, but would not supply power for electiic lighting or for motive power ' o be used in shops, except to a very limited extent, if at ail. The cost of this scheme would be, UnnrMvimut*) O « . *
Total for a daily supply of 600.000 gallons £8362 19 8 Say, in round numbers ... £BSOO 0 0 $ Eetioulation.— I now come to tiie disci'buiion of the water to private houses. The total lengih of reticulation services, the execution of w'.ich would seem to be justified by the manner in which tha houses are distributed throughout the town, is 12,000 yar ' , This reticulation in Sin pipes, serving as fire mains, would cost, including valves and fia plugs, roundly, £3OOO ; thj same length of reticulation laid wdh lin galvanised pip s for domestic service only would coat £IBOO, For fire purposes I do not think this work is urgently required, as 500 yards of hose would place every house in l!® pancipal streets in connection with a fi a plug, and with a few cross mains this lextrr.me length of hose would be
rendered unnecessary. Nor do I llnnk that it would be right to burden the whole of the ratepayers with the cost of laying 300 or 400 yards of threc'lnch pipe to give a domestic supply to perhaps a couple of houses. I think it would be better to leave the reticulation to bo executed by degrees ag the town fills up, and meanwhile the owners of isolated hous s would be allowed to connect them with the mains at their own expense. I would rcc'tnnu-nd stand pipes to be erected at the street corners, so that every householder could obtain a supply of pure water tor the trouble of fetching it from the end of the street in which he lives, and I would further arrange that those who wish to have their cisterns cr tanks filled from the mains by a hose - screwed on the nearest fire plug might h ive Lius service performed fi r them by the turncocks perio ically at a very low charge, say Is per thousand gal’ons. With regard to the question of lighting I bog to say tha% c >ns;dcung the large area over which the houses are scattered, I do not think that either gas or electric lighting could' be introduced at present, except at a cost-which would be felt to be an oppressive burden on the ratepayers, and I should recommend the adoption of the second scheme, pioposei 'o give a supply of 250,000 gallons per day at a total c »sb of £6OOO exclusive ot the reticulation. E. Donsov, M.I.C.E.
approximately : —* £ B d. Pipe Lead dam 200 0 0 190 chains (equal 41803'ds) 5in main, at 7s 7d 1584 18 4 Service reservoir ... 500 0 0 190 chains (equal 4J80yd-) (iin main, a! 8s lid 1863 11 8 103 chains (equal 2266yds) Siii cross main, at 7s 7d 859 3 10 5007 13 10 Land, law, and supoiintendence ... 800 0 0 £5S07 13 10 Say in round numbers (to supply 250,000 gallons for twenty-four hours, exciusive of retiedation) £600(1 0 e Provision of Mechanical Powers.--If the Council prr pose, in add itiou, to provide mechanical power fur driving small motors or for electric lighting, I sho dd propose to modify the last described scheme by putting in 7irl and 9,n instt dd of Sin and 6in pipes. The est mate would then stand as under:— £ B. d. Pipe head dam 200 0 0 4180yds 7;n pipe, at 10s 61 2194 10 0 Service leservoir ... 500 0 0 4180yds 9ii-. pipe at 16s 2d 3373 16 8 2266yds 7in cross main, at 10s 6d 1189 15 G 7462 19 8 Land, law, and superiatendence ... 900 0 0
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 153, 23 May 1901, Page 4
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