ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS ADAMS (Incorporated Village), Jefferson County. Population: 1890, 1,360; 1900, 1,292; 1905, 1,449. Water supply furnished by Adams Water Works Co. ("Water Works Manual "). ADDISON (Incorporated Village), Steuben County. Population: 1890, 2,166; 1900, 2,080; 1905, 2,027. Supply furnished by the Addison Water Works from small spring brook by gravity, and pumping from wells. Construction commenced in 1889, original outlay being $50,000. No purification process employed, and no complaints received. One (1) reservoir about 1,000,000 gallons. Watershed nearly all wild untilled land, and no expense incurred for examining and controlling purity of water supply. No rain gauge records. No other municipality obtains water from same watershed above intake: no pollution exists; source of supply never failed. About 1,400 persons supplied from public supply: 627 other sources. Service supplies 277 service taps; 74 bathtubs; 98 water-closets; 316 washtubs, etc.; 2 meters; 67 hydrants. Income, $3,900.94 per annum; practically no meters. Annual rates: Kitchen hydrant, $6; washstands, cold water only, $2; hot and cold water, $3; bathtubs. hot and cold water, $4; water-closet, self-closing, $4; fixed washtubs, $2 Where one dwelling or tenement is occupied by more than one family, one-half is charged in addition for each additional family. System is gravity, except in dry season, when pumped from wells; 3,000,000 to 15,000,000 gallons pumped per annum during last 5 years; 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 gallons annually by gravity. Pumps work against 188 feet average static head; average dynamic head, 195 feet; ranges of pressures in the main, 10 to 90 pounds. Sizes and lengths of pipe used: 24 feet 16-inch C. I.; 6,220 feet 10-inch C. I.: 2,340 feet 8-inch C. I.; 5,820 feet 6-inch C. I.; 14,775 feet 4-inch C. I; 1,380 feet 1-inch galvanized W. I.; 270 feet -inch galvanized W. I. Small Worthington steam pumps, duty never determined. Five dead ends. Entire cost water works to date (December 31, 1904), $54,964.41. Total bonded debt, $40,000, issued July 1, 1889, due July 1, 1909, 6 per cent. Municipality pays $1,400 per annum for water for fire protection; no separate supply for fire. AFTON (Incorporated Village), Chenango County. Population: 1890, 683; 1900, 722; 1905, 707. Supply is public; obtained from covered springs. Construction commenced August, 1895, with original outlay $22,000. No purification process employed; no tests of purity ever made; no complaints. No rain gauge records. No other municipality obtains water from same watershed; supply never failed. One reservoir for fire, 70 feet by 30 feet, 10 feet deep. One hundred and fifty families supplied. Service supplies-inch taps, number not furnished; 10 bathtubs; 12 water-closets; 5 meters; 26 31-inch hydrants. Income, $1,500; meter charges, 30 cents per M. System is gravity; pressure in mains, 100 pounds. Sizes of pipe: 4-inch, 6-inch, 8-inch. Cost of entire works to date, $22,000. Total bonded debt, $20,000 issued 1895, 4 per cent.; sinking fund, $1,500. Municipality does not pay for fire protection; separate fire supply obtained from reservoir. No public sewers. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. AKRON (Incorporated Village), Erie County. Population: 1890, 1,492; 1900, 1,585; 1905, 1,720. Supply furnished by municipality, obtained from natural spring, village owning land on which spring is located. Construction commenced 1896, with original outlay $30,000; $800 since expended for extending mains. No purification process em ployed. Test for purity made at De VanDeBerg Laboratory, December 21, 1895. No complaints of quality of water. Standpipe capacity, 100,000 gallons; reservoir at spring, 100,000 gallons; about 2 days' consumption. Wells on private property furnish other supplies. Superintendent for plumbing and inspecting at $780 per year. No rain gauge records. No other municipality obtains water from same source; supply never failed. About 1,100 supplied from public supply; 650 from other sources. Service supplies 275 houses; 290-inch, 1-inch, 1-inch, 1-inch, 2-inch taps; no bathtubs, water being too hard; 53 water-closets; 450 faucets; 10 meters; 52 4-inch and 6-inca hydrants. Income from meters, $2,650; from other sources, $2,000; meter rates, 7 cents per 1,000 gallons. Water rates: Private house, set of apartments or suite of rooms occupied by one family, one faucet, $6; each additional faucet, 50 cents; hct and cold count as one faucet; bathtub, $2.50; water-closet, $3.50. All water pumped into standpipe; 70,500,000 gallons per year. Average static head of pumps, 250 feet; ranges of pressures in main, 90 to 110 pounds; sizes of pipe, 10-inch, 8-inch, 6-inch, 4-inch. Three dead ends, flushed every month. Pumps operated by steam; duty not furnished. Entire cost of works to date, $31,000. Bonded debt, $30,000; interest, 4 per cent. Water bonds dated April 1, 1896, due April 1, 1926. Municipality does not pay for water for fire protection, and maintains no separate fire protection. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. No public sewers constructed. Sewage disposed of in cesspools and abandoned wells on private property. Many run sewage into Murder creek, flowing through center of village. ALBANY (City), Albany County. Population: 1890, 94,923; 1900, 94,151; 1905, 98,374. Supply is furnished by city, which owns works since 1850. Water works owned by Albany Water Works Co. from 1800 to 1850. Source of supply, pumping from Hudson river, and gravity supply, Patroon's creek and Maezlandt Kill. Original capital of stock, Water Works Company, $20,000. In 1851 city purchased for $114,600. Additions as follows: 1851-2, $800,000; 1873-4, $750,000; 1888, $500,000; 1899, $550,000. Purification process employed, the Hudson river water being filtered through slow sand filters. Sand dredged from river near Albany; effective size 0.31 mm. Uniformity coefficient 2.3. Cost of purification treatment per million gallons in 1901: Scraping, 22 cents; wheeling out, 40 cents; washing sand, including water, 40 cents; replacing sand on beds, 27 cents; incidentals and lost time, 26 cents; materials and supplies, 10 cents; total, $1.65. Daily tests of turbidity and bacteria of raw water and of effluent from each filter and pure water basin. Cost of laboratory, 28 cents per million gallons water. Some complaints of odor, due to decomposition of alge in mains in summer. Prospect reservoir, distributing, 7,300,000 gallons 9 to 10 days' supply; Bleecker reservoir, distributing, 30,000,000 gallons 4 days'; Tivoli reservoir, distributing, 19,000,000 gallons, 4 days'; Rensselaer lake reservoir, impounding, 122,000,000 gallons; Russell road, impounding, 28,000,000 gallons; Sand Creek reservoir, impounding, 16,850,000 gallons; Maezlandt Kill reservoir, distributing, 70,000 gallons. None covered. Drainage area for obtaining supply: Rensselaer lake, 3.82 square miles: Russell Road reservoir, 4.51 square miles; Sand Creek reservoir, 3.38 square miles; Hudson river, 8,240 square miles. Sanitary condition of sheds of gravity supply ascertained and controlled by periodical examinations; expense account not kept separate. Practically none of the watershed is owned. Five inspectors examine plumbing and read meters at total of $3,600 per annum. Precipitation records are kept by U. S. Weather Bureau at Albany. No other municipalities obtain water from Patroon's creek. Pollution exists above intake of Hudson river supply, being from cities and towns on the Mohawk and Hudson above Albany. Practically entire city supplied from public supply. Average daily consumption per person in 1905, 197 gallons. There are 15,707 houses within the municipality; service supplies 16,000-inch to 2-inch service taps; 8,319 bathtubs; 21,418 water-closets; 51,450 washtubs, sinks and basins; 1,362 faucets and yard hydrants; 2,663 meters; 120 3-inch, 700 4-inch, 42 5-inch hydrants. Income for year ending September 30, 1905; from meter, $73,617.63; otherwise, $248,035.86. System is both gravity and pumping. Water pumped per annum: 1901, 5,097,183,872 gallons; 1902, 4,630,336,304 gallons; 1903, 4,710,662,880 gallons; 1904, 4,849,586,192 gallons; 1905, 4,997,294,960 gallons. Quantities obtained by plunger displacement and Venturi meter. Water not pumped: 1901, 5,061,000 gallons per day average; 1902, 5,825,000 gallons per day average; 1903, 6,380,000 gallons per day average; 1904, 6,550,000 gallons per day average; 1905, 6,094,000 gallons per day average. Average static head of pumps: Prospect reservoir, 295 feet; Bleecker reservoir, 241 feet. Average dynamic head of pumps: Prospect reservoir, 300 and 315 feet; Bleecker reservoir, 247 and 260 feet. Ranges of pressures in main, 15 to 80 pounds. Pumps are operated by steam; for year ending October 1, 1905, duty of pumps was 58,236,000 foot pounds per 100 pounds coal, without deduction for heating and lighting pumping station, offices and street department buildings. Cost per million gallons for water raised one foot high, figured on pumping station expenses, $0.033. Total bonded debt, October 1, 1905, $1,227,250. Sinking fund, October 1, 1905, $52,552.59. Nothing paid by municipality for water for fire protection and no separate system maintained. Annual death rate per 1,000 inhabitants, 1901, 16.14; 1902, 14.55; 1903, 16.97; 1904, 17.22. Annual death rate per 100,000 inhabitants from typhoid, 1901, 27; 1902, 19; 1903, 22; 1904, 24; 1905, 12. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. Public sewers on the combined system are maintained, construction having been commenced in 1820. About 75 per cent. of the area is sewered, and about 90 per cent. of the area sewered is paved. The number of house connections is not known, but the size of connecting pipes is generally 6-inch; surface connections to sewers are 10 to 12 inches. There are 2 or 3 manholes per 1,000 feet sewers. Final disposal of the sewage is in river, by dilution, no sewage being treated. No record of the cost of the system. Sewers cleaned occasionally. No bonded debt. ALBION (Incorporated Village), Orleans County. Population: 1890, 4,586; 1900, 4,477; 1905, 5,174. Test Water supply furnished by Albion Water Works Co. Construction commenced 1888, with original outlay $140,000; no additions. No purification process. of purity made by State Board of Health; no date given; no complaints. No reservoirs, supply coming from wells. Corporation owns one acre of land. One inspection plumbing and distributing systems is made per year by company's agent. No rain gauge records. No other municipality uses same watershed; no pollution. Average daily yield, 150,000 gallons. About 700 families supplied from public source; average daily consumption per inhabitant, 30 gallons. Service supplies, 400 meters; 101 hydrants. Annual income, $11,000. Meter rates: 100 to 500 gallons per day, 30 cents per 1,000 gallons; 500 to 1,000 gallons per day, 25 cents per 1,000 gallons; 1,000 to 5,000 gallons per day, 20 cents per 1,000 gallons; 5,000 to 10,000 gallons per day, 15 cents per 1,000 gallons; 10,000 to 50,000 gallons per day, 12 cents per 1,000 gallons; over 50,000 gallons per day, 10 cents per 1,000 gallons. One house, 1 family, 1 faucet 5 rooms or less, $5; each additional room, 50 cents; private bath, $3; washtubs, $2; private closet, $4; private urinals, $2. System is pumping by steam and electricity; average static head against which pumps work, 185 feet; dynamic, 200 feet; pressure in mains, 50 to 80 pounds; 71 miles 4, 6, 8 and 10-inch pipe in use; 3 dead ends, cleaned four times a year. Cost repairs per mile of pipe per year, $10. Cost per million gallons raised 1 foot, figured on fixed charges, 19 cents. Cost entire works to date, $145,000. Bonded debt, $100,000; issued January 1, 1888, due January 1, 1908. Municipality pays $3,873.60 annually for fire protection. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. Cesspools. ALDEN (Incorporated Village), Erie County. Population: 1890, 533; 1900, 607; 1905, 711. ALEXANDER (Incorporated Village), Genesee County. Population: 1900, 230; 1905, 207. No information received. ALEXANDRIA BAY (Incorporated Village), Jefferson County. Population: 1890, 1,123; 1900, 1,511; 1905, 1,854. No information received. ALFRED (Incorporated Village), Allegany County. Population: 1890, 786; 1900, 756; 1905, 912. Water supply furnished by municipality; all water used being supplied from four springs inclosed in concrete basins, and from one artesian well. The construction of the works begun in November, 1903, with an original outlay of $26,000; additions in 1894-5 costing about $1,000. No purification process employed. Tests of the purity of the water made by Alfred University chemist, who reports the water pure. Complaints concerning quality of water received on dead ends, where consumers are allowed to keep bibs open and also to blow out. One storage reservoir, capacity 144,000 gallons; 80 days' supply; covered and built of concrete. Also one storage reservoir of concrete and covered, capacity 4,650 gallons, used to supply 10 consumers at low pressure. In addition to the public supply, wells on individual property used. No data as to the number of these wells. Twenty-five-dollars is annually expended for chemical analysis for examining purity of the water supply. Quarterly inspection of plumbing and distributing system made by water commissioner. No rain gauge records; no gaugings of yield taken; no pollution exists above intake. The springs yield daily 15,500 gallons; the well yields 3,875 gallons. The source of supply has never failed. About 300 persons supplied from the public supply and about 600 supplied from private wells. The average daily use per consumer is 5 gallons, there being supplied a total each day of 1,390 gallons for domestic purposes and 200 gallons for commercial purposes. There are 171 houses within the municipality. The service supplies 54to -inch service taps, 11 bathtubs, 9 waterclosets, 112 faucets, 44 meters, 30 two-way 6-inch hydrants. The annual income derived from meter charges is $460; otherwise, $92. Meter rates are: For 5,000 gallons or less per quarter, $2; excess over 5,000 gallons, 25 cents per 1,000 gallons. Annual water rates: Dwelling-house or apartments occupied by one family: first faucet (hot and cold counted one faucet), $6; each additional faucet, $1; bathtub, $3; water-closet, $3; where dwelling is occupied by more than one family, each family charged at these rates. The system is gravity; ranges of pressures in mains, 75 to 135 pounds; sizes of pipe, 4, 6 and 8-inch; dead ends cleaned every three months. The bonded debt at date is $28,000, due July 1, 1909; interest, 4 per cent. No separate fire protection system; the municipality does not pay for the use of water for fire protection. SEWAGE DISPOSAL. No sewage No public sewers, sewage being disposed of in concrete cesspools. construction contemplated. The liquids from cesspools are treated with sulphate of iron before being pumped into & tank or emptied into creek at high water. ALLEGANY (Incorporated Village), Cattaraugus County. Population: 1905, 1,330. No information received. ALTAMONT (Incorporated Village), Albany County. Population: 1900, 689; 1905, 664. Water supply furnished by municipality. (Water Works Manual.) ALTMAR (Incorporated Village), Oswego County. Population: 1890, 551; 1900, 416; 1905, 373. No information received. |