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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Webb County, Texas
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Tulsa's major water supply project from Spavinaw hills, started in 1923, nears completion as of Dec. 14, to deliver 25 million gallons daily via a 5-foot pipeline, costing $7 million, providing first hydrant drinking water by spring 1924.
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Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 14.-A construction project designed to carry mountain water to Tulsa from a source 40 miles away in the Spavinaw hills is today nearing completion.
A pipe line five feet in diameter will carry the fluid to a community of more than 100,000 people at the rate of 25,000,000 gallons a day. The building program, under way since January, 1923, constitutes one of the largest engineering projects in the United States. The new system, including a city storage reservoir for emergency supplies, will cost approximately $7,000,000, and is expected to be completed in the spring of 1924. It will give Tulsa its first hydrant drinking water.
The water will be brought to a low spot within five miles of the city by gravity, and from there pumped to a second reservoir on the highest of the hills surrounding Tulsa. The system will be one of the longest gravity pipe lines in the world.
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Tulsa, Okla.
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Dec. 14
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the new system, including a city storage reservoir for emergency supplies, will cost approximately $7,000,000, and is expected to be completed in the spring of 1924. it will give tulsa its first hydrant drinking water.
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A construction project designed to carry mountain water to Tulsa from a source 40 miles away in the Spavinaw hills is today nearing completion. A pipe line five feet in diameter will carry the fluid to a community of more than 100,000 people at the rate of 25,000,000 gallons a day. The building program, under way since January, 1923, constitutes one of the largest engineering projects in the United States. The water will be brought to a low spot within five miles of the city by gravity, and from there pumped to a second reservoir on the highest of the hills surrounding Tulsa. The system will be one of the longest gravity pipe lines in the world.