Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . Unfortunately, this does not always is reported that the water has been chlorinated continuously since the out-break during the early part of the year, and the quantity now being used is aboutthirteen pounds of hypochlorite of lime per million gallons of water. The old reservoir, lying immediately alongside the new concrete reservoir, hasa capacity of about 1,500,000 gallons. This old reservoir is connected to the pumpwell by an old channel and partly by a fourteen-inch cast iron pipe passing underthe floor of the new reservoir; this pipe is p
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, . Unfortunately, this does not always is reported that the water has been chlorinated continuously since the out-break during the early part of the year, and the quantity now being used is aboutthirteen pounds of hypochlorite of lime per million gallons of water. The old reservoir, lying immediately alongside the new concrete reservoir, hasa capacity of about 1,500,000 gallons. This old reservoir is connected to the pumpwell by an old channel and partly by a fourteen-inch cast iron pipe passing underthe floor of the new reservoir; this pipe is provided with a gate valve on the oldreservoir end. The water level in this old reservoir was at the time of our in-spection about fifteen inches below the level of the water in the pure water reservoir,and the bottom of the reservoir is covered with a very heavy vegetable growth andlittered with old cans and rubbish. On the banks of the old reservoir we foundwell defined traces of human excreta. An overflow pipe leads from the pure water. Plate 6. reservoir into the emergency one and is constructed of twenty-four-inch tile, theoutlet end being unprotected and allowing free access to small animals. This over-flow is below spring flood level in the river. There is a gate valve on the reservoirend of the outlet pipe, which when closed enables an extra two feet of water to beadded to the pure water reservoir. On April 23rd, in the morning, there was adepth of water in the pure water reservoir of six feet one inch, and at five oclockin the afternoon this had lowered to five feet ten inches. In dry seasons, it wasreported, there is only about two feet in the supply reservoir and in winter an averagedepth of about four feet. (Plates 8 and 9.) The emergency reservoir, as was stated, is directly connected with the RiverSpeed by means of a channel, and although there is a gate provided for disconnect-ing the two, yet it is so old and out of repair that it is impossible to keep the riverw
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