Some Notes on Water Supply, by J. R. Fox, M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.W.E. Waterworks Engineer, Barnsley
Abstract
The Benjamin Ward Richardson Lecture, 1935Some Notes on Water Supply, by J. R. Fox, M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.W.E. Waterworks Engineer, Barnsley SAGE Publications, Inc.1935DOI: 10.1177/146642403505600807 (Being a paper read at a Sessional Meeting held at Barnsley, on November 29th, 1935). THIS paper has been written with a view to suggesting points for, and -L provoking, a discussion, and may in consequence be somewhat disjointed. It has been suggested to me that I should firstly give a short description of work recently carried out for augmenting the water supply of Barnsley. Some fifteen years ago, it was known that the demand for water had exceeded the supply which could be relied on in dry years. This was brought to a head by the drought of 1921, at the end of which year the supply had to be restricted to eight hours a day for a period of three months. In 1922, the Corporation promoted a Bill (the Act of 1923) inter alia to construct a reservoir (Scout Dike) for compensation water purposes and so relieve Ingbirchworth of this obligation. This was a preliminary and obvious step to increase the available supplies-preliminary as it increased the supply by 7°0,000 gallons per day