WATER SUPPLY AGAIN

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 2

WATER SUPPLY AGAIN

POSITION AT DEEP GREEK INTAKE EFFECT OF RESTRICTIONS A feature of last night’s meeting of t he City Council was another lecture on the water supply by Cr W. Begg (chairman of the Water Committee), who, when the report of the committee was under discussion, took the opportunity of replying to several points raised by correspondents in tho Press. In order to enable him to answer newspaper correspondence he had procured a special report on the matter from the city engineer, said Cr Begg. Quoting largely from this report, and illustrating his remarks by reference to a graph in the council chamber, he went on to say that the gaugings by the departmental staff at the Deep Creek intake showed that from February 8 to February 21, 1935, inclusive, a dry period, the quantity of water passing the intake was not less than 5.000. for twenty-four hours. After that period rain set in, and on February 26 there were 13,500,000 gal for twenty-four hours, while on that morning (February 27) there had been 10,700,000 gal for _ the previous twenty-four-hour period. Among suggestions recently made for the improvement of the water supply under existing conditions was one by a correspondent in the Press who said that the Water Committee should seriously consider taking water from School Creek. A bacteriological examination had proved that this creek was polluted. As a matter of fact, the quantity of water passing down the creek at the point where it passed the Wakari road was gauged on February 18, and was found to be only 33,400 gal a day. During the past twelve months the heaviest draw-off had taken place during the week ended September 29. This amounted to 43,091,000 gal for the week, or a daily average of approximately 6,156,000ga1, and was used at a period when there was no special enforcement of restrictions. From October until the imposition of the restrictions, the drawoff had been 4,000,000 gal and 5,000,OOOgal per day. The restrictions had had the effect of lessening the drawoff. At the present time the intakes were gaining between 3,000,000 gal and 4.000. 000 gal a day, and it was hoped that this satisfactory state of affairs would continue for some time. “ If any citizen thinks he is suffering from a grievance, as regards pressure or anything else to do with the water supply, all he has to do is to make application to the water department, and his case will be considered,” concluded Cr Begg.