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3353 1 (1896)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32812 and id is 1 raw text is: 54TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT Set &ssion. No. 156. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MARnc 10, 1896.-Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. Mr. McMILLAN presented the following MEMORIAL OF JOHN B. McCARTHY, RELATING TO AN INCREASED SUPPLY OF WATER FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASInNGTON, March 8, 1896. DEAR SIR: The undersigned, for himself and other citizens and res- idents of the District of Columbia, respectfully ask the consideration of your honorable Committee of Appropriations for an additional source of water supply for the District of Columbia. Being informed that there is pending before the Senate S. R. 84, favorably reported by yourself, To complete the Washington Aque- duct tunnel, it is asked that the same be amended as follows: Provided further, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to ascertain and report on the practicability of securing an additional supply of water, by impounding or otherwise, the waters of the northwest branch of the Potomac River and the Sligo Creek, in Montgomery County, and of the probable cost of the same. Your memorialists have no doubt, from the eminent character and ability of the engineer commission which considered and reported on the same, that the tunnel from the Aqueduct to the reservoir at How- ard University will, when completed, convey all the water that is turned into it to the reservoir. Your committee has examined the proposition and approved it. We have some doubt, however, as to whether the supply will be at all times sufficient. It is well known that the idea of constructing the reservoir at the Howard University Heights was for the purpose of securing for the ele- vated portions of the city of Washington, and especially that portion known as Capitol Hill or East Washington, a supply at all times from that elevation, and thus avoid the expense of maintaining a number of expensive pumping stations and standpipes; and it is seriously contended that all the water that goes to the Howard reservoir will go there at the expense of the city proper, and will reduce the pressure in the less favored sections. Whether this is so or not, it is a generally recognized fact that an additional supply is needed, and that it is specially desirable that a supply can be secured from some elevated section of the surrounding country, so that by its own pressure or elevated source the highest rooms in the highest buildings can be liberally supplied. At present in the summer time it is well known that the supply is so uncertain and insufficient that for weeks at a time water can not be had above the second story of many houses. Even to do this the use of street hose S. Dec. 7-1

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