MORE WATER FOR SPRINGFIELD. Springfield, Mass., having decided upon an additional water supply to be furnished by Little river, the structures which are to be built as a first instalment, and as set down by Allen Hazen, C. E., will cost $2,161,000. This will include the filtration, with covered masonry filters of the entire water supply from the proposed source, and the construction of a distributing reservoir on Proven mountain near the city, which will maintain the higher pressure proposed very much better than it is possible to have it maintained through a long line of pipe. The preliminary estimate was as follows: Storage reservoir at Peeble s farm upon Borden brook, or other equivalent location, holding at least 500,000,000 gals., and as much more up to 1,000.000,000 as can be readily secured, $200,000; i take dam, with crest about 62 ft. above the present bed of the stream, at…
