OUR WATER SUPPLY.

Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 5

OUR WATER SUPPLY.

TO TIIE EDTTOH. Sir,—ln your issue of the Bth iyst, it <vas stated that at pile of the culverts on the Silver-stream race the flow of the water was about half a walking pace say, two miles an hour—and the Ineasiiremenfc of the water in the culvert 2ft Sin wide by llin deep. This works out at slightly over 3|- million gallons per dav and yet just a few days ago the Town Clerk stated in your paper, in replv to charges of misleading statements, that"on!v one millioa gallons entere'd the race. lam not acquainted with your reporter, but I •will take his statement before any from the Town Hall, especially as it coincides with Messrs Blair's and Miram's figures. Taking in the "grossly polluted"' Flagstaff Creek and others, it means that four million gallons should be reaching the Southern Reservoir, and this in one of the driest of seasons! This is the quantity of water that the council wanted the ratepayers to spend a prodigious sum of money to fetch 13 miles tsova. Lee Stream. Hhs Town Clerk also stated that the Oaos did not leak, as a million gallons antsrad it and a millipiweached the reservoir. Your reporter saw one leak of a bucketful a minute. At two gallons to a bucket, amounts to 2,880 gallons, or, say, 3,000 gallons, a day from one ]eak alone. He saw other leaks, and was told that these leaks were known, but could not ba stopped until abundance of . water was available from ether sources. The Town Clerk stated that the race was watertight. When? A thought strikes me. What will happen to the men who gave the reporter the information about the leaks ■ I have a reason for thinking. Scapegoats will have to be found—probably married men . -with responsibilities.' Another thought. What sort of a reception will Cr Shacklock's questions on our vaster get at the next council meeting —I am, etc., H. V. Freeman. Mornington, April 10.