Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 164, 13 March 1906 — MAY NOT GO THIRSTY [ARTICLE]

MAY NOT GO THIRSTY

New Pumping Plant at Poolock Ranch

Has Capacity of 6,500,000 Gallons Daily

In spite of the fact that the Owens river water Is still several years away from Los Angeles residents. Superintendent of Water Works Jlulholland believes Los Angeles will have no occasion to feel alarmed because of a lack of aqua pura for some time. The new municipal pumping plant on the Poolock ranch was completed yesterday. This plant has a capacity of 6,500,000 gallons daily, sufficient to supply a quarter of a million people. This pumping plant will be tested Thursday and will then be shut down until June, when it will be placed in use. Work on this plant has been goIng on for more than a year and was completed at a cost of $1,500,000. Bonds for the improvement were voted in 1904.