Book/Printed Material Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of water supply of the District of Columbia and the availability of the water power ... February 15, 1913. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations

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  • Image 1 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     62d Congress HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES j Document 3d Session j No 1400 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND WATER POWER AT GREAT FALLS LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR TRANSMITTING…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
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    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     2 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA War Department Office of the Chief of Engineers Washington February 7J 1913 From Office of the Chief of Engineers To The Secretary of War…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 3 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 3 conduit and tunnel from Great Falls to McMillan Park Reservoir similar to the present supply line or the adoption of the Patuxent River project…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 4 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     4 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 600000000 gallons and 84000000000 gallons It also appears that with the fall which may be made available the discharge is sufficient to provide both…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 5 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5 water power will be met by the operation of steam auxiliaries already in place The steam plant lighting the Capitol Library of Congress and…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 6 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     6 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 15 Attention is invited to Col Langfitts acknowledgment of the assistance which he received in the preparation of the report particu larly that from…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 7 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 7 estimates of present and future needs His report is attached hereto as Appendix B Mr E D Hardy superintendent of the filtration plant prepared…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 8 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     8 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA of that city may to a certain extent be interrelated this is not neces sarily so and as an abundant and neverfailing source of…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 9 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 9 h By sinking deep wells to the waterbearing strata and pumping i By a supply from the upper branches of the Potomac River Of…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
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    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     10 WATEK SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA From actual data and from the assumptions of the preceding paragraph the following table has been prepared Table No 1Water consumption 1905 1906 1907…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 11 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA H consumptionthis mainly on account of reduction of storage neces sary to attain it and because the pumps supplying the filters were designed to handle…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 12 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     12 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ESTIMATES The estimate of cost for the water supply only project No 3 is as follows taken from Mr Hardys report a Byconduit at…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 13 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 13 3 per cent the following comparative annual costs result Hardys report p 12 Project No 1 Interest on 6567100 at 3 per cent 197…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 14 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     14 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SAFETY OF SUPPLY In view of the fact that the present method of supply will remain unimpaired and that ample provision is made to…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
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    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA m POWER AVAILABLE Having found the amount of power needed to meet the uses pres ent and prospective enumerated in the act the next step…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 16 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     16 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA side of the river and such a development was made subject of a preliminary report on the possibility of developing water power at and…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 17 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 17 from its designer This latter plan involves the construction of a high dam impounding a lake and a power house at the Virginia end…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 18 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     18 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and the lake It is therefore proposed to carry the canal at elevation 119 from Widewater around the lake and power house and thence…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
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    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 19 The results given in the above table are also shown in diagram plate 38 These show that for average years the minimum horse power…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 20 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     20 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA alone is concerned Either the Government can complete the instal lation to the maximum suggested and deliver the surplus current to the purchaser either…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 21 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 21 racks The intake house over the intake dam furnishes shelter to the operating force in inclement weather protects the racks and contains a light…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 22 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     22 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA Substation No 1 in addition to being the main substation as re gards the other four also serves the congested portion of the city…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 23 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 23 SPECIFICATIONS Attached to this report are specifications covering every item in cluded and also all necessary drawings both in such detail that they may…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 24 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     24 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA be accomplished for many years if ever If this view be correct it follows as a result that the rights of existing private owners…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 25 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 25 profit made at the same time The delivered costs in all the cases would of course be higher than here given as the figures…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 26 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     126 WATER SUPPLY OE THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA probably prove satisfactory If adopted at time of construction a having would be made and on the contrary rubber insulation would add a somewhat…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 27 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 27 The allowances for depreciation given by Mr Herschel are suffi ciently conservative For the conduit line 1 per cent depreciation will be assumed and…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 28 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     28 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA The costs per kilowatt hour just given are sufficient in themselves to indicate strongly the advisability of the United States undertaking the work under…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 29 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 29 These conclusions follow 1 If increased water supply alone is considered either of projects Nos 1 or 2 will furnish a satisfactory solution with…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 30 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     30 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA tract authorization for the remainder needed to complete the project to be paid for as appropriations may be made from time to time by…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 31 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 3 they may be found mutually helpful If so it will be an added argument for both In view of these facts this report is…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 32 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 82 The works which were built were so ample in size that no investigations for an additional water supply were made until 1908 when by…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 33 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     Census year House Doc 1400 62d Cong 3d SessI
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 34 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 33 in the past and also the conditions which tend to modify the amount of water required Before 1905 the use of water was practically…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 35 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     34 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA receiving water from the filters however is entirely inadequate for the larger amount of water and would have to either be replaced by larger…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 36 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 35 10 Changes in pumping station at filtration plant 176 000 11 Changes in piping of filtration plant and filteredwater reservoir 240000 12 Addition to…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 37 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     36 WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA voirs and by making the necessary change in location of the tunnel to McMillan Park Reservoir The estimated cost of the gravity supply from…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 38 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 37 Project No 2 Interest on 6215000 at 3 per cent 186 500 Maintenance and operation of present plant 124 000 For renewing steel pipe…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 39 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     38 WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA Appendix B United States Engineer Office Room 305 Southern Building Washington D G January 22 191 From First Lieut J J Bain Corps of…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913
  • Image 40 of Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. …
    Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400     WATER SUPPLY OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 39 51 Old National Museum 52 New National Museum 53 Smithsonian Institution 54 Civil Service Commission 1724 F Street NW 55 Bureau of Standards Pierce…
    • Contributor: United States. War Department - Langfitt, William Campbell - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. House - United States Congress. House - United States. War Department. Engineer Department
    • Date: 1913

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Title

  • Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of water supply of the District of Columbia and the availability of the water power ... February 15, 1913. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations

Other Title

  • Cited as: H. Doc. 62-1400

Names

  • United States Congress. House
  • Langfitt, William Campbell
  • United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
  • United States. Congress. House, author
  • United States. War Department
  • United States. War Department. Engineer Department

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913.

Headings

  • -  Dams
  • -  Hours of labor
  • -  Government contractors
  • -  Hydroelectric power plants
  • -  Public contracts
  • -  Reservoirs
  • -  Stream measurements
  • -  Streamflow
  • -  Water
  • -  Water-supply
  • -  Water-power
  • -  Waterworks
  • -  District of Columbia
  • -  Great Falls (Potomac River)
  • -  Potomac River

Genre

  • Government publication
  • Legislative materials

Medium

  • 1 online resource (143 pages). illustrations, maps, tables.

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  • KF12

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  • 2024874788

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  • online text
  • image

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United States Congress. House, William Campbell Langfitt, Publisher United States Government Publishing Office, Author United States Congress. House, United States War Department, and United States War Department. Engineer Department. Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of water supply of the District of Columbia and the availability of the water power ... -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024874788/.

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United States Congress. House, Langfitt, W. C., United States Government Publishing Office, P., United States Congress. House, A., United States War Department & United States War Department. Engineer Department. (1913) Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of water supply of the District of Columbia and the availability of the water power ... -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024874788/.

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United States Congress. House, et al. Water supply of the District of Columbia and water power at Great Falls. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report of examination of water supply of the District of Columbia and the availability of the water power ... -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed, with illustrations. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024874788/>.