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conduit from Anialinda to tlic liltcrs and service reservoirs at 

 Southernwood. This scheme was designed and carried out 

 under the direction of Mr. Charles Anthony, through the inter- 

 vention of two contractors, Messrs. R- Perry and H. C. Webb. 



With the exception of the augmentation of the filtration 

 plant by the installation cf a Candy's filter in 191 3, no further 

 additions have been made to the water supply of the town since 

 1905. The reticulation system was extended to the west bank of 

 the river in 1913. 



Other Schemes. — The Town Council obtained authority to 

 carry out a gravitation scheme from the Bufifalo River in 1899. 

 This scheme was estimated to deliver 1,250,000 gallons per 

 day of 24 hours, and to cost £110,000. It was designed by 

 the writer. 



Further, the Council obtained in 1906 parliamentary powers 

 to carry out the Wolf section of the Wolf-Gulu scheme. The 

 scheme, which was designed by Mr. Charles Anthpny, was 

 estimated to deliver 1,500,000 gallons per day of 24 hours, and 

 to cost £320,000. 



New Scheme. — The new pumping scheme, which was in- 

 augurated on December 15, 1917. comprises the construction 

 of a new pumping station alongside the Buffalo River on Farm 

 No. 315, the property of Captain A. C. Wilson and the late 

 General Brabant, and the putting down of a new pumping plant, 

 of a capacity of at least 2,304,000 gallons per day. The water 

 will be discharged through a 20-inch rising main into the new 

 reservoir of, in round figures, 255,000,000 gallons capacity, now 

 being constructed on the Umzoniana River, sections numbers 

 16 and 17, which property has been acquired from Captain A. C. 

 Wilson. There will also be constructed on this site a continuous 

 settling tank 200 feet long by 85 feet wide and 12 feet deep 

 (for precipitating the water when it is turbid, anterior to 

 filtration) ; three filter beds, each 184 feet long by 62 feet wide; 

 and two sen-ice reservoirs, each 200 feet long by 105 feet wide and 

 12 feet deep, having a combined capacity of 3,000,000 gallons- 

 After filtration the water will be delivered to East London 

 through a new 12-inch supply main. Originally it was proposed 

 that the rising main from the new pumping station to the 

 reservoir should be 15 inches in diameter. It was proposed to 

 connect the old pumping station with the new reservoir through 

 a 15-inch cross connection. This was projXDsed because the 

 present rising mains were thought too bad to lift. However, 

 when we commenced pumping in the spring of 1918, after the 

 pumps had been closed down on account of the abnormal rains 

 from the mid-winter of 191 /, the rising mains were found to 

 have deteriorated so rapidly that I judged they could not much 

 longer be continued in service. I, therefore, proposed to lift 

 the triple expansion steam pump and put it down at the new 

 pumping station, and to lay down a common rising main of 

 20 inches diameter, and to connect the new pumping station with 



