The Canadian Engineer, Volume 42 . January 3, 1922. pg. 112
Several letters passed between the New Toronto Utilities Commission and the engineers with respect to Long Branch buying water from New Toronto in which New Toronto was prepared to sell water on a sliding scale from 15 cents to gallon for 100,000 gallons per day with a minimum bill of $225 per month. New Toronto would charge a flat rate of 10 cents per 1,000 gallons, plus 62 percent of the carrying charges on a 16-inch main to the town limits. In a report recently submitted to the Long Branch taxpayers on the proposed water works system, the engineers, Frank Barber and Associates of Toronto, go into the question in detail.
R O. Wynne-Roberts, a member of that concern, in hit report quotes an act of 1918 whereby Etobicoke township was empowered to extend a system of waterworks to connect with any existing system owned by another corporation, and he considered it more satisfactory to pay cash for an extension of the main than to pay for it in the water supply charges. This would then remove the difficulty of the minimum monthly charge which would be a burden upon the residents of the areas not thickly populated.
The extension of a main from 6th street, New Toronto, to 22nd street, or the limits of the town would cost approximately $40,000, and to retire 30-year seven and one half percent debentures on $24,800 or 62 per cent., would cost $510 per day should cash be paid.
New Toronto Supply Cheaper
The engineers’ report shows that until the daily consumption reaches 200,000 gallons per day, the New Toronto water supply would certainly be cheaper for Long Branch. New Toronto pumping capacity for filtered water is over 9,000,000 gallons per day. At present the G.T.R. consumes about 500,000 gallons per day, whereas an independent scheme for Long Branch district would have to be built up from nothing.
Detailed Estimate of Costs
Inasmuch as 6-inch mains would doubtless be laid as local Improvements, according to petitions received, the sum required for the scheme would be:
| 16-inch mains | $26,900 |
| 12-inch mains | 22,500 |
| 8-inch mains | 10,000 |
| Elevated Tank, meter | 30,000 |
| 6-inch mains | 50,000 |
| Birmingham street extension | 24,800 |
| $164, 200 | |
| 10 per cent. contingencies | 16,420 |
| Total cost | $180,620 |
This sum includes about 30,000 feet of mains compared with 50,000 feet, costing about $300,000 in the July report. To retire debentures a tax of 8.7 mills would be levied.
Mr. Wynne-Roberts in closing his report advised that a minimum pressure of 40 pounds per square inch be maintained at all times and 70 pounds for six hours at night to provide for fires.
Supplementary Report
In a supplementary report in answer to Etobicoke council regarding the possibility of obtaining a supply of water in Long Branch at a smaller initial cost, the engineer points out that as there is already a 6-inch main capable of carrying 120 gallons per minute up to 24th avenue. For about $8,400 a pumping station could be installed on the northwest corner of the Mimico Asylum grounds to raise the pressure. For this water New Toronto would charge 10 cents per 1,000 gallons. Surplus water could be pumped into an elevated tank. The cost of the main would be $60,600, and when a permanent source of supply had been decided upon the temporary station could be disposed of for around $4,000.
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