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Atlanta Georgian
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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General Manager W. Z. Smith of the City Waterworks announced that the city's filtering beds are exceeded by 25-75% daily and urged spending at least $200,000 on additional filter beds to match the plant's 40-50 million gallon pumping capacity, due to city growth.
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That the capacity of the filtering beds at the city settling basins are being exceeded 25 to 75 per cent every day was the announcement made Monday by General Manager W. Z. Smith, of the City Waterworks, who is urging that the city expend at least $200,000 on additional filter beds.
General Manager Smith estimates that the city water plant can now pump 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons of water every twenty-four hours, while the capacity of the settling basins and filtration equipment is rated at 20,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. That this situation might result seriously at some time is feared by Mr. Smith.
The growth of the city and the consequent increasing demand on the water system makes it imperative, Mr. Smith says, that the city should increase the capacity of the settling and filtration departments to a parity with the pumping capacity of the plant.
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Monday
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urging city to expend at least $200,000 on additional filter beds to address capacity shortfall and potential serious results from overload.
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General Manager W. Z. Smith announced that filtering beds at city settling basins are exceeded 25 to 75 per cent daily; city water plant pumps 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons every 24 hours, but settling and filtration capacity is 20,000,000 gallons; due to city growth, increasing capacity to match pumping is imperative.