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I agree.WATER PIPELINES Alexandria Doubles Water System Capacity With New Wells and Pipe Lines ^WTHEN water consumption jumped to within a half-million gallons of availability on a hot summer day in 1966, city fathers of Alexandria, Louisiana, began plans for expansion of the municipal water system- Ex- pansion plans which were spurred-to a higher level by a sudden request for water which would more* than double daily capacity of the old system. A combine of paper producers ap- proached the city, asking for 14 mil- lion gallons of water per day more than past consumption. Alexandria?╟╓s system could produce a maximum of r>er dav. City This overall picture shows (above) the sections of the river crossing be- ing made up before being pulled across the Red River. On the left the pipe is joined and setting on railroad tracks on greased timbers. It was pulled along the tracks into the water. quarter million dollars, they ap- proached the Economic Development Administration and secured a $5.3 million federal grant to help finance the expansion. The next step was to call a $6.5 million revenue bond elec- tion to provide for the city?╟╓s share of the cost. The bond issue passed with no difficulty and the expansion program was put into gear. The time table was established by working backwards from the estimated produc- tion date of March 1, 1968 for the papermill. This gave the consulting April, 1968