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x gaivD iniaiiu iiicaj misupply of water the cominer Summer season by a big- brother act, voluntary extension of a six-inch main from Eastern Promenade by way of Little Diamond Island to Peaks, capable of carrying 300,000 gallons of water a day by gravitation, to be Increased to 500,000 should a nump be attached.The Peaks Island Corporation, supplying gas and water, 1ms lost money every day for the past two years. This is pleaded by the directors, through their attorney, Eugene L. Bodge, as ample ground for not being forced to make further outlay or try to recptip in reorganization or oxpahsion.This is where the big brother act bids fair to come into play with the Portland water district assuming the role of the benefactor. Engineer Fuller is drawing aketches and estimating costa to determine if this makeshift plan will work out, and roughly it is figured to cost. $30,000, which is a tenth of the estimated cost of laying a permanent main on the mainland to the shoro at Martin Point, across to Mackworth, Great Diamond, Little Diamond, .Peaks and Cushings Islands. Such a plan is still in contemplation, however, now awaiting the approval of the War Department, which would be a big consumer on Great Diamond and Gushings Islands.TnA lm of Inn of xtrrj Air a
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Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Sun, Jan 18, 1920
Page 77
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