Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1930, Page 36

e s WATER AT PRESEAT ENDUGH FOR YEARS But Engineers for Metropoli- tan Area Are Considering as Far Ahead as 1980. This is the sizth of a series of articles hich are of especial timeliness on ac- ount of the serious drought jrom which hington area has suffered this They deal with the present water supply of Washington Portions of Maryland end varticularly with & _ore- | ©f a committer, created | of ‘Lieut. Col. U, 8. | director of the National Cap- Planning Commission, | v bepun work to fnd | ¢ increasing povulation which. Woshtngton 18 | | BY DONALD #. CRAIG. | ¢ other cities have experienced | tage of water during the recent| ht and have operated under a ted use of water on that account, | { Washington has had an e nd nearby irginia an Army engineers assigned to this area point out that the minimum flow of the Potomac River at Great Falls, where Washington’s water is withdrawn in £Wo conduits, has been 422,000,000 gal- lons per day, which is more than twice $he capacity of the present conduits. “ During the drought this Summer th minimum was never reached. Washington's fortunate condition in this respect has been called to the at- tention of President Hoover, who, as an pngineer, took a special interest in the subject Army engineers say that credit for the provision that gave Washingtdn & water system to meet the situation this Summer belongs to Lieut. Col. Max C. Tyler, now chief engineer of the Fed- eral Power Commission. The neces- sity of increasing the capacity of the old system, which dates back to the time of the Civil War, was foreseen by Lieut. Col. Tyler as early as 1920. It was he who drew up the general plans for the new system, and he and his ssors, Maj. J. A. O'Connor and Brehon Somerveil, district engi- in charge of the Washington | area, carried the work to completion. 4,000,000 Ultimate Population. 1t is estimated by the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission, of which Lieut, Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, is executive officer, that what is now | Gesignated as the Washington metro- politan area, comprising this city and| surrounding portions of Maryland and Virginia, with & present population of 407,000, will have an ultimate popula- tion of some 4,000,000, ‘As it has taken more than 100 years since the seat of Government Was es- tablished in Washington for the popu- Iation of this area to reach its present figure, engineers in the office of Maj J. D. Arthur, jr., district engineer row | in charge of this region, estimate that it would be conservative to say that 200 years more will be required for it to reach such a predicted total. | By that far-distant time the existing filter plants and other parts of the| local water system would doubtiess be | obsolete, and the Army engineers be- lieve it would be reasonable to base future plans on the growth of popula- | tion to be expected during the next 50 years. While future population growth 'is hard to determine, conservative esti-| mates made by engineers of the Wash- ington area indicate the possibility that | by 1968 additional water capacity will have to be provided. | Sufficient for Thirty Years. Certainly, in the opinion of the Army ingers who have studied the subject, | the ts of Washington and of Arlington County, using the same water supply, need have no fears of a water | shortage for the next 30 years. After that, however, an ample supply of water cannot be relied upon, and. it is for tha® reason that the Joint Committee | on Water Supply Problems, organized | at the suggestion of National Capital Park and Planning Commission, has been making a preliminary study of | additional sources of water supply. | The engineers of the district engi- meer's office for the Washington area have made already a rather detailed | study of this problem. They have come to the conclusion that in meeting the A New Link in Our Chain of Nationally Famous Makes! 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Would Us> Occoquan. When the southern portion of the metropolitan area, eribracing part of Fairfax County, becomes thickly enough settled to justify a central wat tem, the War Department engin that Occoquan Creek, Vir- ginia, south of Alexandria, is the most suitable locality to furnish it. They figure that the area to.be served Hy this source would include approximately all of the metropolitan area south of the Washington & Old Dominion Rallroad. including the City of Alexandria It should be kept in mind that while the plans and estimates heretofore Te- ferred to in this series of articles have been for the most part those of the Kidwell’s Markets, Inc. Meats, Fruits and Vegetables Are Plentiful Large Supplies, Qualities Good and Satisfaction | supply systems. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Joint Committee on Water, Supply Problems, as outlined in its "prelimi- nary report to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, ~the basis of the present article is the inde- pendent study of the various problems and the situation as a whole by the engineers of the War Department. For the central part of the area, in- cluding the City of Washington, it is the view of the War Department engi- neers that the Potomac River is the most logical choice. At present 72 per cent of the entire population of this area is supplied from central water Notwithstanding the statement iii the report of the Water Supply Committee that “water service is lagging behind urban development,” the War Department engineers hold to the view that, considering the extent of the rural districts within the area, 72 per cent is very high. 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As hitherto indicated in this series, the present water system is capable of providing 200,000,000 gallons of water E;l‘ day to the City of Washington. om the War Department engineers it was learned today that the maximum consumption during the past Summer was 117,000,000 gallons, which was only slightly less than 60 per cent of the| total available supply. | The average daily consumption dur-| ing the past fiscal year amounted approximately 82,000,000 gallons a day, | or an average per capita consumption | of 160 gallons per day. 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