Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1927, Page 35

SEESENDOFCITY | WATER PROBLEM | Enginger Tells Society Two| Conduits W i | | Supply 200,000,000 Gallons. With two conduits, capable of sup ving the city of Washington with 3 ons of water a the city will e of until at lenst l_u Philip 0. M neer, U. S. Engin partment, and charge of the fice, War De- ate engineer in and power plant ut Dalecarlia. filtration plant. in a lec- ture before the regular meeting of the \Washington Society of Engineers, at the Cosmos Club last night, on “In the Water Supply of Wash The lecture was illustrated tern slides. “The new conduit will be capable of supplying 139,000,000 gallons, while the 6ld one has a c 3 0 5 galon {y only uses from 65 to 70 million sallons of water daily, so until it is needed, the surplus will be used to Janufacture power to be used at the piant. No power will be sold. The power plant will be controlled by a switchboard at a distance of 2,000 feet.” “The cost of the entire project, in- cluding the repair of the old water system, will be approximately $8,- 725,100, The Dalecarlia plant will cost nearly $2,500,000. Both the new and the old filtration plants are capable of from 80 to 90 million gallons of ater a day. The old one, the McMil- in_Park plant, is one of the finest in the country and will not be super- ceded by the new plant. It i ow lter, while the new plant is a fast filter. The new one works 25 times st and occupies 1/20 of the area that the old one occupies,” he con- tinued. . In describing the new project, Mr. Macqueen showed slides of the 100-foot tower which will chemicals u: o showed the wuilding, the 100 - station, and a general plan of the . including the r i s Tompkins is the contractor in charge of the building of the filter plant. Maj. B. B. Summerville of the War Department Corps of Engineers, at the head of the entire project. D. Hardy, senior engineer, is in a He 300 J. E. Curtis is superin- of construction. Mr. Mac- ueen is the associate engineer iIn «harge of the filter and power plant. The plant was started in 1922 and will be completed in June, according 1o the plans of the builders, and the grounds about the area will be parked. A buffet supper was served follow- ing the lecture. . CLEVELAND TIMES STOPS. Plain Dealer Takes Over Circula- tion Lists of Morning Paper. * CLEVELAND, March 3 (#).—The Cleveland Times in its city edition this morning announced that the paper had suspended publication and that the “good will and circulation lists have been taken over by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.” In an announcement, Samuel Sco- villy president of the Commercial Pul ing Co., publishers of the Times, d ed that “the effort to establish thé-publication 6n a perma- nent basis is abandoned.” St Vi oo A new process makes it possible to produce a high yield of cheap news- print paper from hardwood. 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