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and is a good revenue producer. It is certain that it will not 

 soon be changed, but we may, nevertheless, see what could 

 be done to improve it. 



An analysis of the records for a certain year shows that 

 4839 of the services drew less than 300,000 gallons each Under 

 the proposed classification * all water drawn by them would 

 come under the Domestic Rate. These services drew in the 

 aggregate 150 million gallons of water, an average of 85 gallons 

 per day for each service. 



Among the larger services there were 99 drawing larger 

 quantities but less than 3,000,000 gallons each, and therefore 

 coming under the Intermediate Rate. These drew, in all, 47.7 

 million gallons, an average of 1320 gallons per day for each 

 service. Of this amount, 300,000 gallons from each service 

 during the year, or 29.7 million gallons, would be charged at 

 the Domestic Rate. The remaining 18 million gallons drawn 

 by these 99 services would be charged at the Intermediate Rate. 



There were, further, 20 services drawing over 3,000,000 

 gallons each, and so coming under the Manufacturing Rate. 

 The total draft by these was 143.3 million gallons, an average 

 of 19,700 gallons daily for each service. Of the whole quantity 

 drawn by these 20 services, 6 million gallons would be charged 

 at the Domestic Rate, 54 million gallons at the Intermediate 

 Rate, and the remaining 83.3 million gallons at the Manufactur- 

 ing Rate. These quantities may be brought together in tabular 

 form as follows: 



Chapter V, p. 66. 



