It is desirable that by whatever means water is hereafter brought into the City- it should be conducted to a pourt before as it is possible to only two Service Tanks,

distribution-as

get it. There

are

high

of sufficient dimensions to be called so,

lan as No. 1 and D(although

sheww on

the

plan

there are really several smaller ones) through which the supply is passed to the Aby; and these are situated at height, far too low to admit of any great pressure being " given _ _ They will however shell be of use

assisting the distribution to the localities in which they

are situated.

I have ourited to state with 2 reference to the 10 wich Conduit pipe that throughout its entire length - it has

only

ous air valve and that is situated arabout

150 feet below, its upper end at Pokfoolum. or at the point marked B on the plan. : The Corst iron pipes have mostly socket jouits - but in some instances ouring to the starp bends of the roade - plain pipes

merely butted together and covered with

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non ferrules which hewe ben' a frequent cause of leakage._

I do not think I need refer to the expeten of distribution in the Aby otheruri then to say that as the streets have been laid out- es the mairis have followed them. frequently without due regard to levels - so that eskad of falling eventy toevards their respective termini - they meander in various directions - cornetimes rising and sometimes falling.

It will therefore be necessary to relay them throughout the principal part of the City. when another channel shall have been substituted for the 10 wich pipes in the Pokfoolum road. they will be available. at a small cost ur cleaning for for this purpose. Those also now in the main thoroughfares, for which these will be substituted, serving in like manner,

other localities.

for

Juill

Having co-for given an outline of the existing state of the water supply. proceed to summarize the defects of the system. and then endeavour to show in what way

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