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March 10, 1950 W 2 >1 ingl J. H. Moreau Mayer Enoarg&do del Dep to. 4# Qpsr&olon Institute* M&oional d® Obrae Sanitaria® Caracas, Venezuela Dear Sir* Answering yowr Inquiry February 23rd, asking for information regarding our water gyetemt Our eye too may be generally divided into two parts, that is* The production field, located about two miles west of toms, and about 80 feet higher} and the distribution mains, of which there is ever 50 miles of pipe* The production field consists of eleven arteelaa wells and three springs* Their production; about eighteen million gallons daily, Is carried in east-iron transmission mains of 12-lnoh disaster, to a concrete settling basin. 14 feet wide, 34 feet long and five f et high, the interior of which is equipped with baffle-bars to stop the velocity of the water and give it a chance to drop any grains of eand picked up in the underground channel. After passing through the settling basins, the water is transmitted to the reservoirs, thence into the city by gravity flow through two 24-inoh transmission mains and ons 16-inch which serves the business district* The distribution system inside the city also consists of cast-iron mains, varying in sis® from 4-iaeh to 12-in oh. These are usually laid in center of the alleys, or If there is no alley, then in the streets, and the mains are uniformly laid to
