CITY'S WATER SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 108, 8 May 1913, Page 2

CITY'S WATER SUPPLY

"Now that the new main to Bell-road is completed," comments Superintendent Tait in the annual report of the Fire ! Brigade, "the complete dislocation of the service available would surely have to be something phehomehal." Tho superintendent's remarks were based on a | summary of the available sources of j water supply of the .city. The figures ! are as follow : -iKarori reservoirs, distent three miles | from city— old reservoirs, capacity, 46,000,000 gallons ; 463 ft above eea ! level j new reservoir, 62,500,000 gal- ; lons j 579.34 ft above >sea level j dii?tri' buting basin, 1,000,000 gallons. * I Walnui-o-mata reservoir, 17i miles | from city ; capacity, 20)000,000 gallons f 420.44 ft above sea level. About 170 miles of mains through tho I city. Average daily pressure in centre [of city, 1361b. Maximum pressure, 1501b. New storage reservoir at Wainui-o-mata s capacity, 145,000,000 gallons ? 471 ft above sea level. I , Service reservoirs, water raised by electrically driven multi stage centrifugal pumps— Kelbume : 678.wt above sea level; capacity, 521,000 gallons. Brooklyn: 732 ft above sea level; capacity, 422,000 gallons. Roseneath : 608 ft above sea level ; capacity, 213,000 gallons. Melrose : 545 ft above Bea level • capacity, 178,000 gallons. Wadestown: 790 ft above sea level s capacity, 196,000 gallons. /) Storage tanks, each^ with a capacity of 50,000 gallons, fed by gravitation, Aro located at Hatattai, Botanical Gardens, Kelbume, Coromandel'Street, and Bellroad. The area under protection is 9500 acres.