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leakages occurring thereby, the repairs of which incurring 

 great expense, in addition (<> (In- inconvenience of stoppage 

 of water during repairs, a new six-inch casl iron water pipe, 

 tested to 300 pounds per inch, is being laid in a trench 

 four feet six inches deep, with valves and four-inch 

 branches, where required, from opposite the F'armhouse on 

 the easl side to terminate at a valve near Gate 4, the lower 

 end of the Park, consisting of about six thousand feet of 

 water pipe. 



THE INCREASE OF THE WATER SUPPLY. 



A contract having been made with a view to increase the 

 water supply of Prospect Park in the well one million gal- 

 lons per day, four six-inch wells were driven thirty feet 

 deep in the sand between the inside and outside curb of 

 the well. All the necessary preparations having been made 

 in pipes, connections and valves, on October 11th and 12th 

 a test was made to determine the now of water after twenty- 

 four hours of pumping. The result was the delivery from 

 the open wells of one million, three thousand, eight hun- 

 dred and eighty-four (1,003,884) gallons of water. At the 

 same time there was delivered from the open well by the 

 main engine, five hundred and fifty-nine thousand, eight 

 hundred and foriy-six (5o9,846 v - gallons of water, showing a 

 falling off of about two hundred thousand (200,000) gallons 

 in the open well. 



In order to recover this loss three four-inch pipes were 

 driven twenty feet below the bottom of the open well, which 

 brought a flow of about fifty gallons per minute from each 

 pipe. 



On December 7th a final test wtis made with the following 

 result : Pumping was commenced at 9 A. M. from the open 

 well and from the driven wells, which was continued for 

 eight hours, delivering eighty-two thousand, five hundred 

 and thirteen (82,513) gallons per hour, which in twenty-four 

 hours would amount to one million, nine hundred and 



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