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<br /> <br />.r' <br />l <br />l <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />l3 <br />B8 <br /> <br />fAGi L <br /> <br /> <br />'INO. I <br />SECTION -- <br />PAGE <br />DATE I <br />" <br /> <br />TUE WATER DEPARTAlIlNl' OF TIlE CITY 01' S1'. PAUL- <br /> <br />ENGINE'RING DIVISION <br /> <br />UNIT 'ROJECT OK lOCAIlON <br /> <br /> <br />CHRONICLE Continued <br /> <br />YEAR 1897 (cont1d) <br />1 J/jll. (From "City Engineer's Report, pp 79-95 and insertsl (cont'd) <br /> <br />"INTAKE. <br /> <br />"To provide for taking water from the lake systelll the 36-inch suction <br />Ilia extended out into thll lake 810 fellt beyond the junction with the 24- <br />"inch pipa line connecting the artesian wells. At the end of the pipe <br />"will be placed a sunken crib, thl! top of which will be eight feat below <br />"high watar in Cantervilla lake, which is established at 190, city base. <br />IIThlil depth of the nter at the crib ill tan feet. There is a .36-inch valve <br />.pla.ced just beyond tha 24-inch Y, and ther!! are also valves on aach of <br />nthe 24-inch branchee, consequently the water can be taken from the wells 10 <br />"or the lake, or both, as mq aeem beat. <br />"Ths pipe ill now being ldd, and is about two-thirds the distance out <br />"to the crib, The trench for the pipa W&S shseted &od them Ixcavated and <br />"the pipe laid, Considarable trouble has been experienced from the water <br />"forcing its way under tho shlileting lIl!ll up in the bottom, the material <br />"baing quite treacherous. The work is being done by the water board by <br />"day'S labor under direction of the auperintendent, ~. Starkey. The coat <br />"of the intake, including pipe, will be about $5,500. ' <br />"Thill extension 1I1il very materially add to the qUllJltity and qwitY' of <br />"the St. Paul water sUPply, and with the liIxception ot improvements in per- 20 <br />"tecting the storage capacitY' ot the Rice lake system, 1t illl probably be <br />"many years before any extensive extensions of the systemldll be requireci. <br /> <br />"BOlLER AT MCCWON LAKE PUMPING STATION. <br /> <br />.One of the old boi:j.ers et the .lkCarron lake pumping plant having bean <br />"removed to the Cllnterville lake plant... . <br /> <br />nTEN IULLION GALLON ENGINE. <br /> <br />"Spa<;1ficationll han beliln prepared for lI- 10,000,000 gallon engine at <br />"lolcCarron lake statio~ to take the place of; the 1,500,000 gaJ.lon en~ine <br />"sold tQ the park board. Thill ill rendend neoeSllary by the increase of <br />"the water consumption, and I trust that your honorable body will take <br />"immediate steps to let a contract for the S~, as it Will require at <br />"le&st eight months before the enginQ can be erected. <br /> <br />ItS UllVEYS . <br /> <br />"In addition to the survey ~ork for making the plans and apec1fioationa <br />"for the various.contr~cts let this Year, a survey has also been made of <br />~th~ meadow land that ~ould be affected by a rise of the Rice lakes to <br />~olevatton 190, which has been done to answer suite which have been brought <br />"against the Board of Water Commissioners for the flowage of landS and the <br />~rosulte of the survey show that t[~re haa been no damage whatevlIr dona <br />"by any action taken by the Board of Water Commissioners in putting in a <br />~f~U1D8 at Baldwin lake for the measurement of tho water. <br /> <br />TAB. REf <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />~.- <br />" <br /> <br />~,,. <br />/... <br />J..~. <br />'/!, .1.), <br />~ ~. - ~ <br />~.: '~t' . ~:{ <br />.; :;.../.. <br />",- Ii. <br />30)\ .1' <br />: '~. <br /> <br />"i:~~ <br />r <br />"", <br />tr<"c"., <br />r ~, <br />'''<. <br />'c" <br />v <br /> <br />40 <br />