. Water & sewage works . s paralleled and to be paralleled bymany others. The city is level, except for a thinly set-tled residence and park district on theeast, on one of the hills of which the mainreservoir of the water works is pumping plants are on the river bankfrom which the supply is taken and atthe reservoir from which the filteredwater is pumped to the distribution sys-tem. The original plant was constructed in1S57 to 18G0 by the Louisville Water Com- pany, the stock in which was owned inpart by the city and in part by privatepersons. The city later purchased all thestock
. Water & sewage works . s paralleled and to be paralleled bymany others. The city is level, except for a thinly set-tled residence and park district on theeast, on one of the hills of which the mainreservoir of the water works is pumping plants are on the river bankfrom which the supply is taken and atthe reservoir from which the filteredwater is pumped to the distribution sys-tem. The original plant was constructed in1S57 to 18G0 by the Louisville Water Com- pany, the stock in which was owned inpart by the city and in part by privatepersons. The city later purchased all thestock of the company and acquired fullownership in 1906, and the works are nowoperated by the board of water works, fivemembers, of which Charles F. Grainger ispresident. Charles Hermany, past presi-dent of the American Society of Civil En-gineers, was superintendent and engineerfor the whole period of existence of theworks until about the time of his death COAGULATING basin and CrescentHill reservoir of Louisville December, I9I3 516 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING in 1908. The present superintendent,Theodore A. Leisen, was appointed In1908. The city now has a population esti-mated at 230,000, the census of 1910 show-ing 223,928. The old pumping stationcontains two Cornish pumping engines,built in 1860, with a capacity of 0,000,000gallons each per day, and formerly hadtwo Blake pumps, built in 1879, each of3,000,000 gallons capacity. The Cornishengines are held in reserve and are al-ways ready for use. gallons a day. Boiler Insufficiency andother complications have delayed the fulluse of this pump and its efficiency couldnot be tested during the year of the lastreport, 1912. With a maximum pumpageof nearly 40,000,000 gallons a day and anaverage of about 25,000,000 gallons anytwo of the pumps in the new station canmeet the demands and for much of thetime either of the newer pumps can takecare of them. The river stations pumpto the Crescent Hill reservoir, first builtin 1877-9, unde
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