A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests . city being again found to be insufificient, aWorthington pumping engine of 12,000,000 gallons daily capacity wasinstalled. Again the quality of the water was become such as to renderit objectionable, and in 1896 the intake pipe was extended into the BigBend, the pipe consisting of cast iron pipe sixty inches in diameter. G3(i HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 8,307 feet in length. Three years later another Worthington pump-ing engine was added, that has a dail
A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests . city being again found to be insufificient, aWorthington pumping engine of 12,000,000 gallons daily capacity wasinstalled. Again the quality of the water was become such as to renderit objectionable, and in 1896 the intake pipe was extended into the BigBend, the pipe consisting of cast iron pipe sixty inches in diameter. G3(i HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 8,307 feet in length. Three years later another Worthington pump-ing engine was added, that has a daily capacity of 8,000,000 the old Cornish engines were put out of commission, butwith the pumping facilities that remain it is possible to supply the citywith 12,000,000 gallons of water per day and still have in reserve foremergency a capacity of as much more. In the course of time the water of the bay was condemned as unfitfor use, whereupon theWater Commissioners proceeded to provide theremedy of extending the intake pipe across the peninsula into the openlake. This work was decided upon in 1904. An act of the Legislature. PUMPING STATION AND STAND PIPE, IN 1876. was secured that ceded a section of the peninsula to the Commissionersof Water Works, plans were prepared that included the extension ofthe pipe, and settling basins in which to filter the water, and a con-tract was awarded to the T. A. Gillespie Company of Pittsburg. Workwas begun in July, 1904. The pipe, which is of steel 60 inches in diam-eter, was extended beyond the peninsula 9, feet into the lake, toa point where the water is 35 feet deep, and there anchored to a cribso as to ensure a depth of 26 feet of water over the pipe. The entirelength of the intake pipe is now 17, feet, or rather more miles, and is believed to be the longest single piece of submerged HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 637 60-inch cast iron and steel intake pipe in the world. The work ofplacing this intake in pos
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