Author: Buffalo City Water Works

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780332449074

Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of the Buffalo City Water Works, Buffalo, New York, for the Year 1883 Gentlemen: In compliance with Title fifteen, Sec tion ten of the City Charter, we have the honor herewith to submit to you the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Buffalo City Water Works. In presenting this report we have the satisfaction of stating that for the first time in the history of the Water Works they may be fairly considered self-sustaining, and this notwithstanding within a short timea reduction in rates has been made to domestic consumers of 33% per cent. And the meter rates to manufacturers and railroads has been cut from an average of nine cents down to three cents per gallons. The works in all departments have been kept in thor ough repair, and are now in excellent working condition. Removing the obstructions from the tunnel, repairs to coal and pumping houses, engine and boilers, fencing the grounds at the Holly House, and tile draining 800 hydrants, to prevent them from freezing, has largely increased expenditures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.