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 THE NEW QUEBEC AQUEDUCT 
 
 ON THE 
 
 COMPLETION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 30th Oct. 1885. 
 
REPORT 
 
 
 Of Mr. Baillarge, engineer of the new aqueduct, on the termina- ; 
 tion of works under the Beemer contract for the laying ' 
 of the new 30 inch main and of its accessories between 
 Quebec and Lorette, a distance of 40,800 feet (t| miles) 
 under a head of 463 feet. r 
 
 • , Following out the contract, item by item, the first require- 
 ment is that the quantity of water to be supplied, be ( LO,000,OOU) 
 ten million imprrial gallons, inclusive of the 2 J million gallons 
 by the old 8 inch pipe. ^ .^ . 
 
 The additional supply was therefore to have been 7| mil- 
 lion gallons, while according to the most reliable formulae it is 
 in reality 9J millions. - ; ., . 
 
 This difference of 2 million gallons surplus is what in my 
 calculations of 1881, I allowed for diminution to be caused by 
 incrustation, sediment etc. within the ne. lO or 20 years. 
 
 It is the history of all aqueducts and hence now-a-days it 
 has become the rule to compute any conduit of the kind 
 now under consideration for a supply some 20 to 30 per cent in 
 excess of the required supply. 
 
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 Clause 2 of contract relates to th? thickness to b ^ giv3n th^ 
 pipe which is stipulated to hi of strength sufficient to stand a 
 ' pressure of 430 lbs. to the squara inch, equivaLmt to that of a 
 column of water 1000 feet high. 
 
 Each length of pipe, that is each separate pipe was in reality 
 subjected in England to the required test as certified to by Mr. 
 Reynolds, wh'>ni the contractors employed to superintend the 
 operation, the same person who was employed for a similar pur- 
 pose by the cities of Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. 
 
 My desire was that the thickness ef pipe on the lower 
 
 levels be If inches instead of 1^ inches as set forth in my said 
 
 report of 1881. so that the conduit might more thoroughly resist 
 
 water hammer, oxidation, &c.; but of the two tenders submitted 
 
 by Mr. B3emer $455,000 for tha 1^ pipe, and $545,000 for the 
 
 If pipe, the City Council adopted that most in keeping with 
 
 the pecuniary requirements of the City, notwithstanding that 
 
 MM. Shanly and Parent, twice in their report on the respective 
 tenders sent in, declare or words to that effect, that the conduit 
 as proposed by the undersigned leaves nothing to be desired on 
 the score of thickness, permanence and durability. 
 
 In view of that portion of clause 2 which sets forth that the 
 
 undersigned is constituted the judge of the thickness to be given 
 
 to the pipe, it has been argued that it only rested with me to 
 
 cause the pipe to be made of such thickness as he thought proper; 
 
 b(ii when this clause is taken as it must be in conjuction with 
 
 the latter part of clause 1 with regard to the 430 lbs. pressure 
 
 and considering that Mr. Beemer's tenders for the thickness of 
 
 . conduil required by me was some 1^0,000 more than for a 1^ 
 
 -: inch pipe, it became evident that I could not after the City 
 
 Council adopting the lower tender of $455,000, call on the con- 
 
 tractor to execute the conditions of the higher tender of $545,000 ; 
 
 the total difference being $90,000 of which allowing $20,000 as 
 
 per Shanly and Parent's report, for the enlarged bore of the pipe 
 
 ■T at the Lorette end, left as above stated $70,000 as representing ; 
 
 the cost of the increased thickness of metal ; or whicu it Bee- 
 
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 mer's tender of $ 10,000 for the increased diameter, would still 
 have left ^50,000 for tha increased thickness. 
 
 That the thickness arrived at to withstand the required 
 pressure of 430 lbs, is ample, is proved as alreavly stated, by the 
 fact of each pipe having been tested thereto, all defective pipes 
 unable to stand the test having remained on the maker's hands 
 to be broken up and recast. 
 
 That some 20 and odd pipes should have given way out of 
 4000 (about J per cent of the whole) is not to be wondered at 
 since some 200 or more of them were more or less broken and 
 cracked in transportation from Europe. The cracked portions 
 were cut off, but likely some of them were insufficiently curt- 
 ailed and even a microscopic fracture invisible to the naked eye 
 would be such as, under the great pressure (some 200 lbs. to the 
 inch on the lower levels) to cause a rupture. 
 
 S'ome 2 or 3 pipes gave way from their settlinjj: down on bowl- 
 ders or due to defective laying ; two or three were showed 
 defects, in the metal which could not be detected by inspection 
 before breakage, while another had to be removed due to a 
 eak at the joint, having thinned it out to less than J inch, and 
 the last fractured pipe was had in the very staving of a defec- 
 tive joint. 
 
 Again I say there was nothing strange in these failures, 
 and Mr Corrigan, our old foreman of over 30 years standing, 
 and who was in the employ of the City when the first aqueduct 
 was laid, states that as in the present case more than 200 of 
 comparatively stronger 18 pipes of the old main were broken 
 on their way out from Scotland, and that in John St. alone 
 he laid quite a number of 14 inch pipes which had been curtail- 
 led more or less to eliminate the broken or cracked portions 
 thereof ; while after being laid and the pressure turned on, no 
 less than nine of the 18 pipes burst on the very first day and 
 
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 that gangs of men were employed th3 whole of the first season 
 in repairing burst pipes and leaky joints. 
 
 The new main is strong enough to resist the pressure 
 stipulated in the contract, and with due care can not be subject- 
 ed to heavy water hammer so long as the supply maintains it- 
 self on the heights, and that the gates have not to be used for 
 turning up the water daily to the upper wards of the city as 
 heretofore, and even this can b ; avoided by the introduction of 
 hydrometers which though thjy may causj the revenue to fall 
 off, will stop th3 wastage to suoh an extent that the water can- 
 not go below the required level. 
 
 The importance of avoiding water hammer, by being very 
 slow and careful with the gates may be inferred when it is re- 
 membered that water (62| lbs to the cubic foot) is as heavy as 
 oak and that, too suddenly to arrest a column or beam of 
 that material, some tf miles long and weighing not less than 
 12| millions of pounds, travelling at the rate of 3.58 feet per 
 second or 215 feet a minute, is sure to cause a rupture some- , 
 where along the line. The public should therefore be cautious 
 never to hurry the fire-men in their manipulation of the gates, 
 but, on the contrary, to caution them continually against any 
 undue hurry in performing the operations. 
 
 Clause 3 of contract relates to the intake of water at Lo- 
 rette. This was to have been affected, at the contractors option, 
 either by a separate w^ell or by setting the new pipe side by 
 side with the old conduit. The committee on advice of the en- 
 gineer, considered it more prudent to have an altogether inde- 
 pendaut supply for the new main, so that in case of failure of 
 
 the one, or of repairs required to the gate house, or so called k 
 Chateau d'Eau, the supply to the City could be maintained by ; 
 " the one pipe while the other was under repair. / V r*;^ 
 
 A supplementary contract was entered into with Mr Beemer 
 ta build the second gate house for the price of $11,040 and the 
 
works thereofare terminated and were so some 15 days ago when 
 I visited the place, with the exception of the drainage ; but 
 this in no way affects the payment of the 25u]o drawback, the • 
 provisions of which do not extend to the supplementary con- 
 tract. 
 
 Clauses 4 and 5 of contract relate that the pipe shall be laid* 
 from Lorette to Mount Pleasant at the junction of De Salaberry 
 street ; th«t it shall be parallel to the old main and sufficiently 
 remote ^ ifrora to allow of repairs ; that it shall be connected 
 at M ., Pleasant with the present system of pipes by St. John 
 and ye Salaberry streets that the contrar-tor shall put in all stop 
 and air gates, the whole as described in my report of 1881 and 
 as required by the undersigned. 
 
 All this has been done in full inclusive of wells, pockets, 
 scours, &c., at rivers St. Charles and Des Meres ; all that re- 
 mains to be done being the restoration of such of the joints in 
 the masonry as have given way to frost, and which must be 
 done ere a final settlement can be had with the contractor. : 
 
 Clause Y concerns the steel and iron bridges over the St. 
 Charles and Des Meres rivers. That over the St. Charles was to 
 have been built below and alongside of the old aqueduct 
 bridge. " 
 
 As already set forth in my report of 1883, our legal adviser 
 counciled that as we had already had a suit law with the 
 Ml^I. Bell who claimed S^0,000 damages on account of our ha- 
 ving erected one bridge over the river, it would never do to 
 erect a second, and that as the first had a certain headway un- 
 der it, it would not be prudent to have a lesser height between 
 the water and the underside of the other. - ; - 
 
 This rendered it necessary to build the new bridge on the 
 very site of the old one. I solved the problem by increasing 
 the span from 120 to 160 feet so as to bring and build the new 
 piers or abutments in rear of the old ones which were partly cut 
 
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 awjy from the roar to allow of the new construction. At the 
 «ame time the new iron tube was built around the old pipe so 
 as in no way to affect the new supply of water to the city. 
 
 Another supplementary contract was entered into with Mr. 
 Beemer for this bridge as modified, making it at the same time 
 with such a currature as would give the same headway at 
 centre as obtained with the old structure. 
 
 The new contract was for |11,400 ana all but covered by 
 the $10,000 which were thus saved to the city in not having to 
 pay for a new or additional right of way and the cost of altering- 
 the old main to the new bridge so as to allow of demolishing the 
 oldbridn:e when the new one were finished. 
 
 Clause 8 relates that within the outer skin of the new 
 bridge, there shall be an inner one of sheet iron. Upon second 
 and more mature consideration your engineer recommended and 
 there was built, in lieu of the proposed iron lining an inner 
 tube of two thicknesses of wood which in case of leakage 
 within the bridge under the there pressure of 200 lbs. to the 
 square inch, would not be liable to rust as woudl have been the 
 sheet iron, thus leading to its speedy destruction. 
 
 I had also previously recommenned dispensing with the 
 saw dust filling, at first proposed between the inner and outer 
 tubes which, in case of leaks would have become wet and 
 swollen and have bulged in the inner lining under the efiect 
 of frost as was the case with the inner lining of the old wooden 
 tube. Moreover the air space, it was considered, would act 
 equally as a non conductor and allow of getting between the 
 tubes to repaint the iron work when required, thus preventing 
 its oxydation and prolonging its duration. . 
 
 The stipulations of clause 9 have been carriedout, the pipes 
 having been cast vertically and coated inside and out with 
 Smith's patent varnish. ^ n ; 
 
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 Clauses 10 and 11 ralate to the laying of the pipe, itsdt'pth 
 in the ground and the amount of filling over it. The 7 leet of 
 material over the pipe are in no way necessary as a protection 
 against frost and were only founded on the fact that the old 
 main was supposed to be at that depth in the ground as inferred 
 from the section of record in th 3 offi ^e, and as clause 4 states 
 that the pipe is to be laid parallel with the old conduit supposed 
 to be at a dtjpth of S3ven feet, the figure T was therefore intro- 
 duced. 
 
 Now, on the contrary the old pipe was found at many places 
 to be not over 4 to 5 ft. deep, to wit between the main road and 
 the indian village, where the depth of ground o^er the old pipe 
 prov 'i to be but 4 to 4 J feet. 
 
 Mr McKay's reports «how that of the 135 points at which it 
 was possible to ascertain the depth of the old pipe, there ar j 95 
 on f of the whole distance where it is at less than the supposed 
 depi'h of 7 ft.. At 49 places, the depth is less than 6 ft. on over 
 one third of the line. At 21 places, or one sixth of the distance 
 the old main is at a less depth than 5 feet, and at 14 places it is 
 at depths varying from 4 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 1 inch. ' v^ 
 
 Again, I say, clause 4 required the new pipe to run parallel 
 with the other to avoid syphons. Therefore the axes of the two 
 pipes to satisfy this condition must be parallel with the bottom 
 of the new conduit its battom 6 inches below and its top six 
 inches above the old one and this has been carried out except 
 where the nature of the soil, due to land springs, made it dan- 
 gerous to the safety of the oid main to go below it, or where 
 the rock bottom would not allow the blasting in the immediate 
 vicinity of the pipe without perilling its existence. 
 
 The contractor was therefore in presence of two clauses of 
 the contract which were not known to be incompatible with 
 or contradictory of each other until it was found that the old 
 pipe was far from being at the depth indicated on the section 
 of record in our archives. 
 
Now while the mean depth of the old main for some | oi 
 its course is but 6 feet, that of the new main ie 5 feet., partly due 
 as already stated to its bottom being level with that of the old 
 main and in some cases a few inches above it, and partly from 
 the fact of its diameter being a foot more than that of the old 
 conduit, which of necessity made the depth of filling a foot less. - 
 
 But half the difierence between the 5 and the 7 ft required 
 by the contractjis made good by the embankment above the sur- 
 face composed of the material displaced by the 30 inch main, 
 while along the remaining f of its lenght both pipes are at 
 depth varying from 7 to 14 feet at points, where to avoid sy-s 
 phons, a depth had to be reached which other ciroumstanoes 
 would not have rendered necessary, , r '^^ ^:- • 
 
 Therefore the depth of filing over the new main is but one 
 foot less than required by the contract and that along only little 
 more than half the distance between Quebec and Lorette and a 
 detailed calculation of the deficient earthwork makes it but 
 8000 cubic yards which at 20 cents a yard, getting the material 
 along the line would only amount to some |1600 and I doubt 
 whether, in view of the clause which requires the new main to 
 be laid parrallel to the old or at an equal depth, any deduction 
 can be claimed by the city under this head ; but this is a ques-; 
 tion to be dealt with by the City Council and its legal advisers. 
 
 Clause 12 of contract relates to the jointing of the pipes and 
 if some of them have been found leaky, the defects have been , 
 remedied, no leak existing except that from the scouring gate at 
 river St. Charles, to replace which a new gate has been supplied 
 by the in as contractor, but which it was considered unadvisable 
 to put yet so as not again to leave the city without water, 
 while the operation was being performed, and that the contrac 
 tor has still more than 6 monthij before him wherein to do the 
 work or that on his failure so to do, the corporation can have it 
 done and charge the cost thereof against the amount still due. 
 
 On the other hand, the leakage from the scourinp gate is 
 
too small to affect the supply to the city especially when it is 
 considered that the supply by the new mafn is fully 9 millions 
 of gallons instead of the t J millions required by the contract. 
 
 Under claL 13 Mr. Beemer is bound to settle all damages 
 which proprietors and tenants along the line might be subjected 
 to outside of the right of way, 33 feet in width english measure 
 or 31 feet french measure, and Mr. Hoare his managing engineer 
 in chief assures me he has settled all claims along the line with 
 the exception of one of about $150 of J. Bedard which he has 
 left to be settled by the court on account of the exorbitant 
 nature of the demand. 
 
 This Mr. Bedard at River des Meres should be the less 
 exacting in the premises seeing that the south west corner of 
 his barn encroaches several feet on the right of way and ?hat 
 should the Corporation inhert the suit, it can bring Bedard to 
 terms by causing him to remove the barn. 
 
 As to accidents to pipes and damages resulting therefrom, 
 the contractor has up to date settled all claims, repaired all 
 breakages as he will also have to do of all others which may 
 occur until the expiry of his contract in May 1886, as required 
 by said contract. 
 
 • -"^^ I have no doubt of the correctness of what Mr. Hoare has 
 told me with regard to the setiling by the contractor of all 
 claims for damages. All those along the line whom I have 
 been able to see have admitted to me that such is the case. 
 
 One or two of the claimants have complained that they 
 
 were made to sign documents which they did not understand 
 
 and that they should have got something more. I was lead to 
 
 believe said one of them, that I was being paid for damages to 
 
 grain outside the right of way, while the paper signed by me 
 
 turns out to be a discharge on account of damages to fences, 
 
 ditches, &c., and the same party complained that instead of bu- 
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rying the loose stones in the trench, they had been left upon 
 the surface. * ^ ■ 
 
 I mention these details of little importance that the City 
 Council may judge to what extent ij", any, theJCity might here- 
 after be called on to settle unassessed claims by parties along 
 the line of aqueduct. - ''^^x 
 
 To be certain that after the expiry of the contract in May 
 next, the City may not be called on to settle further damages, 
 may be it would be well for our notary or some one else to call 
 upon each and every the proprietors and tenants along the line 
 and make inquiry in relation thereto ; or may be it would be 
 sufficient to advertise the matter in the official organs of the 
 Corporation, or cause notices to that effect to be placarded on 
 the church doors of the different parishes gone through, at St. 
 Sauveur, Ste. Angele, Charlesbourg, St. Ambroisa and the 
 Indian Yillage, &c., or have the matter advertised from the 
 pulpit or both. - 
 
 This would at any rate be advisable to engage or force pro- 
 prietors along the line to put in gates (barrieres) as thereunto 
 required by their respective acts of cession to the City. Many of 
 them have already done so, but there are still some 2t wanting 
 between Lorette and the " G-reen Road, " and 7 more from there 
 to the St. Clair road. ' ^ ^ 
 
 "While on this question of right of way I may be allowed 
 to suggest the advisability of keeping a roadway open along 
 the line of aqueduct. Such a mode of communication would 
 be of great benefit in the more prompt rep airing of fractures and 
 leaks, which yearly occur along the line and can not but be of 
 more frequent occurence with two pipes than with one. 
 
 Two miles in the distance would thus be saved and the 
 steep acclivity of the St. Clair road, which has to be ascended, 
 immediately to descend again by the Bonaventure incline to 
 the level of River des Meres. 
 
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 It will ba remembered that on the occasion of the breakage 
 at River des Meres on the 2nd of November last, the claim for 
 transporting the engine aud pumps was not lees than $300 
 which would not have come to one half tho amount had it been 
 possible to follow along the right of may where less that half 
 the number of horses employed on the occasion wjuld have 
 been more than ample for the task. 
 
 We require an engine and pump of our own which two 
 horses can manage along the right of way and it would hardly 
 cost more than |1000 to make the road "fit for carts and heavy 
 vehicles, by fascining the swamps and bridging over the ditches. 
 
 * Practically speaking we have no right of way at Grriffiths 
 whose stables are built over the conduit ; nor at Judge Stuart'?, 
 or through the grounds of the St. Mathews holding ; but on 
 account of the intersecting streets, these premises are of easy 
 access in case of necessity ^ ' ^^ 
 
 V. . But from the North end of " Aqueduct street, " so called 
 to the river St. Charles, the right of way is illegally obstructed 
 by buildings which the proprietors prefer having with the risk 
 of their being demolished or cut through when required. Still 
 the disadvantage to the city on this account, and while having 
 no damages to pay to squatters might be very grept as may be 
 inferred, if the delay be allowed for in reaching a leak or break 
 to repair it, when a store full of heavy goods, or a shed or han- 
 gard full of coals or firewood had to be got through and under 
 for the purpose. r ' "' t^; 
 
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 The 14 inch pipe from Aqueduct street to Crown street, a 
 distance of 1400 feet has with all the required connections been 
 put in complete. 
 
 So also have all the connections, gates and wells been put 
 in at Mount Pleasant at the interception of St. John, De Sala- 
 berry and Aqueduct streets, the whole conformably to the 
 requirements of my report of 1881 on which the whole scheme 
 
is based and it is now possible to make any desired combination 
 of the two supplies by the old and new mains as stipulated in 
 the contract. \ ' 
 
 Thus the Arago street pipe, connected as it is with both the 
 new and old mains allows of supplying the lower levels of the 
 City from the one or from the other or both so that in case of 
 accident to the one the other is at hand to do duty in the inter- 
 val ; and in the same way, the combinations at Mount Pleasant 
 allow of supplying all the upper portions of the city from the 
 St. John street main or" from the De Salaberry street main, or 
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 The wisdom of not eliminating or doing away with the 
 old main up Aqueduct Hill as Mr. Baldwin had intended to do^ 
 has been twenty times demonstrated when on each occasion of a 
 break in the new main, the water couJd bo turned up to the 
 summits through the old main and the whole City supplied as 
 heretofore. , 
 
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 It may also be remarked that the supply from the old con- 
 duit at its lower level of delivery is now some three quarters 
 of a million gallons in excess of its former delivery of 2J million 
 gallons at Mount Pleasant ; so that the total supply to the city 
 is rather 13 millions of gallons than the lesser figure alluded to 
 under the head of clause 1 of the contract. > 
 
 Clause 15 relates to the raising of the dam at Lorotte and 
 scouring out of the subsiding reservoir, and first with regard to 
 the removal of sediment from the dam, the work has been per- 
 formed in a satisfactory manner, some 600 cubic yards of mate- 
 rial having been dredged out by means of a scoop from the end 
 of a 40 feet jib derrick with a TO feet out-rigger attached to reach 
 the outer most limits of the deposit. - , v 
 
 I again sounded the reservoir lately and where the bottom 
 of it was clear after the dredging, a new deposit of some 4 feet 
 summit height is to be found, which bears me out in my con- 
 
elusions that as the borders of the river became denuded of their 
 trees and brushwood and therefore unprotected, sand becomes 
 detached from them and comes down the river iu constantly 
 increasing quantities and i .ust ultimately invade the whole 
 system of our water works and reduce and destroy their efficien- 
 cy to an alarming extent, unless my suggestion and recommen- 
 dation of more than a year ago to the City Council be carried 
 out of erecting a sand arrester, with suitable wire netting onto 
 to prevent fishes, frogs, insects, leaves; branches, mosses and 
 other organic matter from passing into the city circulation. 
 
 This bar to the passage of sand and sediment should have 
 been erected at the outset of the works in 1853 and the conse- 
 quence of its omission is that even in looalities the most remote 
 from the fountain head as at the extremity of the main at Cap 
 Blanc, not less than half a cart load of coarse sand was removed 
 from the 4 inch pipe in that ward, aftei the lighter sediment 
 had been running off with the water for some 20 minutes pre- 
 viously. , 
 
 Now, with regard to the other stipulation of clause 15 : the 
 raising of the dam at Lorette, it is optional with the Corporation 
 whether this be done or not, the contract providing that if not 
 done the cost thereof shall be deducted from the contract 
 amount. This I have estimated at some $3500. 
 
 The Water Works committee as yet, has arrived at no con- 
 clusion in the premises, and it is therefore no omission of the 
 contractor's if the work has not yet been done, nor can it affect 
 the payment to the contractor of the first half of the 50 ojo draw- 
 back. At any rate, it is now too late to think of it at this sea- 
 son, and the work, if to be done, must be left over till slack wa- 
 ter of July and August next. 
 
 Clause 16 of contract has it that the supply must be conti- 
 nuous throughout the city, the maximum pressure except upon 
 the height to be t5 lbs, the maximum 90 lbs. The supply is 
 
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 continuous ; not, however, because so stipulated, but because 
 it could not be otherwise, and will be so long as the ever in 
 creasing wastage shall not have caused the water to fall off 
 from the summit levels ; nor did I in my report of 1881 hold 
 out any such promise of its continuity for all lime to come. 
 
 As to the 90 lbs maximum pressure, thj proposed automatic 
 valve in Arago st. could no doubt hav.^ solved the problem but 
 not with the other prouiso of a minimum pressure of Y5 lbs, for 
 as it is, the fire pressure at the exiir.^mities is not sufficient to 
 more than command a two story house, and had the value been 
 put in and the present maximum pressure of 120 lbs, been then 
 reduced to 90, the consequence would be that no dynamic pres- 
 sure at all would have obtained at the city limits, due to the 
 small size of the mains in those localities and to the fact that 
 the flow as at Cap Blanc and the Marine Hospital is through 
 loss by friction reduced to a minimum. ^^ 
 
 What I here advance with regard to minimising the pres- 
 sure is fully borne out by the fact that not less than three regula- 
 ting values were, may years ago and before wy time, intro- 
 duced : the one hi Augustin st. at the head of the cliff, another 
 similarly situated in St. Clair st. and a third in Rampart street 
 to command the supply to the lower, wards of the city. Each of 
 the three proved to be absolutely useless and may still be seen 
 with their respective lever arms securely fastened to the sum- 
 mit of the surrounding misonry after an expenditure of seve- 
 ral thousand dollars to put them in. v ' s.* ; t 
 
 But the pressure can easily and economically be reduced as 
 required in every household, in every building, by the inser- 
 tion of a regulator at a cost, in each case, of some |2 to $3, either 
 at the expense of the proprietor or tenant or at that of the 
 city. 
 
 By clause 1*7 of contract, the works were to have been com- 
 pletc'l by che 1st of December 1884. This result did not obtain 
 

 nor could it, due to the delay in getting the right of way at 
 Mount P^-^asant. . . 
 
 The last clause of the contract bearing a No (18) is to the 
 effect that at no time during the prosecution of the works shall 
 the city be without at least its present supply of water, that by 
 , the old pipe and in this respect Mr Beemer did not fail. 
 
 *: ' " With regard to thj present broken or apparently unfi- 
 nished state of the approaches to the bridg^^s over the rivers St. 
 Charles and Des Merea, it is to be remembered that these works 
 have already been completed and w^ere only broken and par- 
 tially destroyed by the leakages which since occurred. They 
 
 ? cannot be repaired at this season, nor can the joints be drawn 
 again where they have fallen away during the frosts of last 
 winter, nor until the forth-coming spring ; and neither can 
 they be charged to that portion of the contract which deals 
 with the payment to the contractor of the first half of the draw- 
 back, since they were all completed previously and now, it5 is 
 evident that the making good of the approaches, etc., etc., can 
 only be charged to " maintenance " and comes under the clause 
 
 '.. relating to the year's delay and payment of the second portion 
 or remainder or the drawback, s ^ 
 
 Mr. Beemer with his staff of engineers, managers, &c has 
 fulfilled his contract under most arduous engineering and 
 pecuniary difficulties : a rainy season and an unprecedented 
 drawback of 50 o/o, the whole under the able guidance of his 
 chief engineer E. A. Hoare esq. M. I. C. E., quite a young man 
 to whom it has been this given to acquire much valuable 
 exp rience in hydraulic engineering, in the carrying out of this 
 one contract of nearly half a million of dollars, where ewery 
 description ol work is to be met with in iron, steel, stone and 
 wood, including the new gate house at Lorette, the several air, 
 stop and scouring gates and wells, galleries etc : structures of 
 which the least important are not the steel and iron tubular 
 bridges over the Des Meres and St. Charles rivers resting on 
 
massive piers of the heaviest cut stone masonry, while the 
 carrying on of the designs prepared by the undersigned for the 
 span over the St. Charles with its novel feature of a reversed 
 curve in the vertical plane at each abutment reflects much credit 
 not only on the contractor and his engineer, M. M. Beemer 
 and Hoare but also on the bridge building company which 
 carried out the design. ^^ _, 
 
 CHS. BAILLAIRafi, : C 
 Engineer New A., W. "W. 
 
 Quebec, 30th Oct. 1885. ' •.,.;- ^, 
 
 City Hall. 
 
 Quebec, July 13th 1886. 
 
 C. DuQUET, esq., 
 
 Chairman "W. W. Committee. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 In obedience to the resolution of the W. W. Committee 
 requesting me to report on Mr. Beemer's demand to be now 
 relieved of further responsability with regard to the new 
 aqueduct ; I have the honor to state that all works not 
 terminated at the date of my report of Oct. 30th 1885, have 
 since been completed in a satisfactory manner and that the 
 new main is now and already for some time past has been in 
 complete working order. 
 
 Now as to the question of the day and date from which 
 should be reckoned the year's delay to be undergone by the con- 
 tractor to entitle him to the payment of the second half of his 
 drawback, I would observe that the water was first on the city 
 for a few hours on Jany. 30th 1885 when certain pipes gave 
 
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 way, some of them under pressure and others from being im- 
 properly set. V - , . . ... ,, 
 
 Again on the 28th Fob. following the water was on the city 
 by the new main for some 10 hours. 
 
 On the 27th of March the water was on during 24 hourg 
 consecutively. 
 
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 On April 9th the supply maintained itself for some 48 
 hours and finally about the 11th May 1885 nearly all the 
 breakages had occurred and been repaired and the water may 
 be considered as having been permanently on the city since 
 that time. ' ^ ' 
 
 ' : Fourteen months have now gon(» by since that date, and 
 consequently in computing therefrom, that is from the most 
 recent of the aforesaid dates, the year's delay has more than 
 expired through which the contractor was to have waited to 
 entitle him to receive the balance of his drawback, and a for- 
 tiori if the delay be conputed from January 1885 when the 
 water was for the first time on the city, 
 
 ' ■ The committee can therefore in my opinion recommend 
 that the balance due Mr. Beemer be paid him reserving for 
 future settlement the respective claims of the contracting 
 parties. ,'.',.V^--'v': / t;]-^. - 
 
 ff A':L C. BAlLLAlRafi, 
 
 ^ ^ Engr. New Q. W. W. 
 
 P. S. — It must be understood that the work here referred 
 to is not work forming part of that to be completed within 
 the first period mentioned in the contract, but is simply repairs 
 to works destroyed by breakage in the pipe line and which had 
 once been fully completed, and therefore form part of the works 
 to be maintained during the last term of the contract for which 
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 the 25 0/0 drawback was retaiaed. All of which is evidc^nt 
 
 from the report of Oct. 30th 1885. 
 
 C. B. 
 
 REPORT OF THE WATER WORKS COMMITTEE. 
 
 '■^>'\ ■'■;':,'' '-"v^ City Hall. ._ ^^ 
 . ' V / ) y Ir r* Quebec, Aug. 3rd 1885. 
 
 Present: ^'■■■- '. .--''^'.■^. ■- ^ ■ ■'^\. ' ■; - "* \^.;- '^ -■,/^- -;•■.?-.-.':.;-' ' 
 
 .r His Worship The MAYOR, . .. ^ ^. '5 
 : - - Councillor DUQUET, in the chair, 
 \C Alderman HEARN, 
 
 Councillors BOUCHARD, ''^■''■^'■CW.. 
 PEACHY, ^:: -' : : 
 
 :,,::.-■-,;. ^ ■-■; ■ TESSIER. :c7";:'':^f ■."' 
 
 Your Committee has the honor to recommend to the Council 
 that Mr. Beemer be now relieved of all responsability with 
 regard to the New Water Works pipe and that the Corporation 
 do now take over and accept the new main, leaving the res- 
 pective claims of the contracting parties to be settled hereafter, 
 
 Humbly submitted 
 
 (Signed) CYR. DUQUET, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
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 RESOLUTION. 
 
 CITY HALL 
 
 QUEBEC, 30 AUGUST 1886 
 
 At a special meeting of the council of the City of Quebec 
 held on the 21th. day of August 1886 : 
 
 Read, the 429th report of the Water Works Committee (To 
 take over te new aqueduct from Mr. Beemer), wich, being put 
 to the vote ; Alderman Chouinard, seconded by Honorable 
 Alderman Hearn, moved, and it was. 
 
 Resolved, — That the said report be continued until the opinion 
 of the legal advisor be obtained regarding the ace eptance of the 
 new water works by the Corporation, and that, meanwhile, Mr. 
 Baillairge's reports relating to the completion and acceptance of 
 the new water works, namely, the reports of thcj 30th October, 
 1885, of the 18th July and 3rd August, 1886, and letter of the 
 13rd July, 1886 be translated and printed for the use of this 
 Council. 
 
 CONTRACT 
 
 BETWEEN 
 
 THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF QUEBEC 
 
 AND 
 
 HORACE JANSON BEEMER, ESQ., 
 In the presence of the undersigned, Notary Public for the 
 
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 Provint'c of Quebec, iu the Domiuion of Canada, refciding in the 
 City of Quebec. 
 
 Personally came and appeared His "Worship, Fran fois Lan- 
 gelier, Mayor of the City of Queb«;c, and therein ri'siding, act- 
 ing to thesi' presents for and in ih'^ name of the Corporation of 
 the City of Quebec, and duly authorized to the effect of these 
 presents by and in virtue of a resolution passed at a special 
 m 'etiug of the Council of the said City, held on th^ twenty 
 second day of June last, of the one part ; 
 
 And Horace Janson Beemer, of the City of Montreal, Fsq , 
 Contractor, of the other part. 
 
 Which said parties have agreed and contracted together, as 
 follows to wit : — 
 
 -' lo. The said Horace Janson Beemer, promises to suppl y the 
 said City of Quebec, with ten millions of gallons of water, 
 imperial measure, per twenty-four hours including the present 
 buppiy of about two and a half millions of gallons to be taken 
 from the dam at Lorettte, whence the present supply is obtained, 
 to Mount Pleasant, by means of a thirty inch, inside diameter 
 conduit, the same to be of a sutficient thickness and strength 
 to stand the pressure due to a head of one thousand feet of 
 water. 
 
 2o. Each length of pipe and each special casting shall be 
 test* d by and at the expense of the said Contractor to the aforesaid 
 head of one thousand feet or pressure equal thereto, and the 
 City Engineer shall decide as to the thickness and strength of 
 these pipes and special castings. 
 
 3o. The Contractor shall at Lorette, in the vicinity of the 
 Chateau d'Eau, cause to be made an ingress well of ten feet 
 inside diameter and of a depth of ten feet below the surface of 
 the water in the subsiding reservoir and the said well shall be 
 connected with the said reservoir by a proper tunnel or conduit 
 
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 of sufficient dimensions and strength, the whole, to be construc- 
 ted of hydraulic masonry and the said well shall be fitted with 
 stop-gates, strainers, and all the necessary appliances for shut- 
 ting- off, turning on and measuring the flow of water to the 
 City as may bo required, and he, the said contra(;tor, shall over 
 the said well erect a stone structure of proper shape and dimen- 
 sions to protect the same and suit the abov^e mentioned require- 
 ments. It shall be optional for the contractor instead of buil- 
 ding the above mentioned well to connect the new pipe, with 
 the well in the present Chateau d'Eau, the whole as fully 
 described in the City Engineer's report uf the tenth of June, 
 eighteen hundred and eighty one, and with the addition only 
 of some mode of dividing the two supplies +o admit of the 
 separate measurement thereof, the whole to the satisfaction of 
 the City Engineer. 
 
 4o The said conduit shall be laid from the said well to Mount 
 Pleasant as aforesaid (at the junction of St. John and De Sala- 
 beriy streets) parallel to the present main, at a sufficient distance 
 for clearances and repairs. 
 
 5o. The said conduit shall be connected at Mount Pleasant 
 with the present system of distribution through St. John and 
 De Salaberr^ treets. 
 
 60. 1 X. sa ^ "Contractor shall provide on the line of the said 
 pipe, eleven Vv 's, ten air valves, five stop valves, a scouring 
 reservoir, and s< ,uring gates, the whole at such places, and in 
 such a manner as shall be directed by the City Engineer. 
 
 ^o. The said Contractor shall carry the said conduit accross 
 the rivers des Meres and St. Charles on iron tubular bridges of 
 a siugle span, on abutments or piers of heavy coursed rock- faced 
 stone masonry in hydraulic cement on properly filled founda- 
 tions or the masonry itself of the piers extending down to a 
 solid and unyielding foundation. 
 
 80. The said tubular bridges shall have an inner skin of 
 
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 iron, the space between the inner and outer to be filled with 
 some protecting" material against the action of frost and the inside 
 space through which the new tube shall run shall be of such 
 size as to afford space for hereafter placing side by side with it, 
 the present main wilh sufiicient space between the two and on 
 all sides of both pipes for all necessary repairs or alterations at 
 any future time, r : ' 
 
 9o. All pipes shall be cast vertically and after being 
 thoroughly clcanned both inside and out and while still hot 
 from the mould, shall be coated inside and rvut with Doctor 
 Smith's Patent coal tar varnish. ., : - r ^m- 
 
 lOo. The said Contractor shall make all excavations in earthy 
 shale, rock. &c., and after the pipes are laid, fill in, under, around 
 and over the same with proper earthy materials, the same to be 
 properly rammed down and consolidated. ,._., 
 
 llo. Where laid in embankment the same shall be seven 
 feet thick over the pipes on all sides with side slopes of at least 
 one and a half to one, and where laid in excavation the depth 
 of ground over the pipe will also be of seven feet. 
 
 12o. The pipes shall all be thoroughly laid to proper grades 
 and directions on an unyielding foundation and all joints tho- 
 roughly filled with gasket and lead, the same to be thoroughly 
 staved to withstand the pressure and prevent any blowing off 
 the joints and that the whole may be absotutely free from leaks 
 of even the minutest discription throughout the whole extent of 
 the conduit. 
 
 13o. The contractor shall execute all the works necessary to 
 carry out the present contract, all of which shall be of the very 
 best class of workmanship and will likewise furnish all mate- 
 rials of the best quality as also all labor, cartage, plant, a^d 
 every other item of expenditure whatsoever required in the 
 carrying out of the contract and necessary for the full comple- 
 tion thereof whith the sole exception of the right of way, being 
 
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 only thirty feet in width, the contractor shall confine himselj 
 thereto and will be held responsible for all damages arising 
 from all encroachments beyond the same or otherwise including 
 all damages which might arise to the present main during the 
 execution of the present contract. 
 
 14o. The said contractor shall from the foot of aqueduct hill 
 at the intersection of Arago street or the prolongation thereof 
 westward lay a fourteen inch conduit or from the present main 
 or both as may be hereafter decided by said City Council 
 through Arago street to or near the head of Crown street, and 
 said connections as well as those at Mount Pleasant shall be 
 supplied with stop gates to allow of any possible combination 
 or distribution of supply from both mains to either the lower or 
 upper wards of the said City. 
 
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 15o. The present dam at Lorette shall be raised by the said 
 contractor to the extent of two feet more or less as may be 
 decided by the said City Council, but in case the latter should 
 not decide on having the alteration made, a deduction will be 
 made from the price hereafter stipulated of the present contract 
 in proportion to the amount of work deducted but in all cases the 
 present dam shall be thoroughly repaired and the subsiding 
 reservoir cleaned out by the said contractor as part of the pre- 
 sent contract. 
 
 16o. The said supply of ten millions of gallons of water to 
 be furnished by the said contractor as aforesaid shall be cons- 
 tant and continuous that is that all the pipes in the City even 
 at the highest levels shall be constantly full of water at a mini- 
 mum pressure of seventy-five pounds to the square inch with 
 the exception only of the summit level at Grrande Allee where 
 such pressure cannot be had with the present head of water and 
 the maximum pressure shall no where and at no time exceed 
 ninety pounds to the square inch, and the said contractor shall 
 provide in that respect such self acting or weighted valve as in 
 the opinion of the City Engineor shall be considered necessary 
 
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 to prevent the said maximum pressure from b. ing exceeded. 
 
 lYo. The said contractor shall commence the said works in 
 one month from this day or sooner and shall continue the saiue 
 without unnecessary interruptions and with a sufiB.cient number 
 of hands to s ^cure the completion thereof on or before the first 
 day of December of next year. 
 
 18o. The said Contractor shall carry on the said works in 
 such a manner that at no time the said City shall be without 
 at least its present supply of water. 
 
 19o. The present contract is made for and in consideration 
 of the sum of four hundred and fifty-five thousand, five hun- 
 dred dollars, which the said rran9ois Langelier acting as afore- 
 said promises to pay to the said Horace Janson Beemer or 
 order, monthly, on the certificates of the City Engineer, approv- 
 ed of by the City Council, the said certificates to be based on the 
 progress estimates of works done and materials delivered, and 
 accepted as hereinafter provided, the same to be prepared by the 
 said City Engineer and shall be pro rata of the total contract 
 price. The said contractor shall be paid fifty per cent only of 
 the amount of such certificates, the balance to remain in the 
 hands of the said Corporation as a guarantee for the carrying 
 out of the present contract and the fulfilment of all each and 
 every one of its clauses. Upon the completion and acceptance 
 of the said works and after the said City shall be supplied with 
 water as aforesaid, the said contractor shall be paid one half of 
 the said drawback and the balance or twenty-five per cent of 
 the contract amount will be paid over to the said contractor, one 
 year after the completion and acceptance of the said works by 
 the said Corporation, provided that, at that latter date, the whole 
 work be found satisfactory, in every particular and the said 
 water supply and pressure be as agreed upon by the present 
 contract and interest at six per cent shall be allowed to the said 
 Contractor on the drawback of each certificate from the date of 
 the same until final payment of the said drawback. 
 
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 It is agreed between the said parties, that all materials 
 destined to the construction of the works shall be considered to 
 be the property of the Corporation, so soon as the same shall be 
 delivered on the works, that is on and along the said right of 
 way or on any other property belonging to the said Corporation, 
 and shall have been accepted by the said City Engineer. 
 
 It is hereby agreed that the deposit made by the said Con- 
 tractor, now in the hands of the City Treasurer shall remain a 
 deposit until such time as the aggregate amount of City Engi- 
 neer's approved estimates as aforesaid, shall have reaches? the 
 amount of twenty five thousand dollars, at which time the said 
 Contractor will be refunded said deposit. 
 
 The said Contractor shall have to comply with all Police, 
 City and municipal laws and by-laws, with respect to the 
 carrying out of the present Contract, to the entire discharge of 
 the said Corporation, he hereby holding himself responsible for 
 all damages arising out of a non complying therewith. 
 
 The surplus ground or materials from the excavations along 
 the line of said Conduit, shall be equally spread over the said 
 right of way by and at the expense of the said Contractor, who 
 shall likewise remove all remaining materials if any to the 
 satisfaction of the said Corporation. 
 
 It is expressly agreed and understood by and between the 
 said parties, that all the works to be done concerning the saip 
 aqueduct shall be considered as made and executed in virtue of 
 the present contract and for, and in consideration of thii price, 
 or sum of money herein above stipulated and that the said con 
 tractor shall have no right to claim or demand any indemnity 
 or remuneration whatever for works done and executed by him 
 with respect to the present contract under pretext that such 
 work or works do not form part of the present contract, were 
 hot in contemplation and are extras or under any other pretext 
 whatsoever unless he receives from the said City Council an 
 
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 order in writing clearly specifying the extra work or works to 
 be done for a certain price to be mentioned in the resolution to 
 be passed by the said Council to that effect and not otherwise. 
 
 It is also agreed between the said parties, that, in case of 
 any difficulties or differences of opinion arising between them 
 as to the meaning, interpretation or signification to be given to 
 the present contract, that then, the said parties will respectively 
 appoint an arbitrator, each to decide the matter and should 
 they the said arbitrators disagree that then they will appoint 
 an umpire to pronounce judgement which judgement will then 
 be final and without appeal. 
 
 And at the same time personally came and appeared 
 Alphonse Charlebois, of the town of St-Henri-des-Tanneries. 
 Esquire, contractor and Louis Zenophile Malette of the parish of 
 Vaudreuil, in the county of Vaudreuil, Esquire, contractor, who 
 after having taken full communication and reading of the pre- 
 sent contract hereby agree to become joint securities of the said 
 Horace Janson Beemer, in favor of the said " The Corporation 
 of the City of Quebec " jointly and severally, and have and do 
 hereby bind themselves as aforesaid to the entire execution of 
 the present contract and of all, each and every one of its clauses 
 and conditions, each of them the said contractor and said securi- 
 ties making of the whole his own and proper affair, as if he 
 were the only contractor and principal ohlig6. 
 
 And in order further to secure the execution of the present 
 contract and give more value to the said security,the said Alphon- 
 se Charlebois, one of the said securitie;s doth hereby especially 
 mortgage and hypothecate to the amount of four hundred and 
 fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars, the following immo- 
 veable property viz : — 
 
 A piece of land situated in the said town of St. Henri-des- 
 Tanneries, in the County of Ho:^helaga, bounded in front to the 
 north by St. Antoine street, in rear to the south by the heirs of 
 
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 the late Samuel, on one side to the East by the heirs of the late 
 Hugh McKay, and on the other side, to the West by Bethune 
 street, with a brick and stone castle thereon erected, circums- 
 tances and dependencies. The immoveable property presently 
 mortgaged is now known and designated on the cadastral plan 
 and book of reference thereto, for the said town, under the 
 number (161t) one thousand six hundred and seventeen. 
 
 The contractor shall pay the cost of the present contract, 
 
 And for the execution of the present contract, the said par- 
 ties and securities have made election of domiciles. His Worship 
 the Mayor, at the City Hall, the said contractor, at the St. Louis 
 Hotel, Quebec, and the said securities at their respective resi- 
 dences. 
 
 Done and passed at the said City of Quebec, at the City 
 Hall, of the said City, this tenth day of July, one thousand eight 
 hundred and eighty-three, under the number two thoussand 
 six hundred and fifty-four of the minutes of Mtre. Adolphe 
 Gr Tourangeau, the undersigned notary and the said parties have 
 signed with us said notary after due reading of these presents. 
 
 (Signed) '• F. Langelier, Mayor of Quebec, 
 " H. J. Beemer," 
 " A. Charlebois," 
 " L. Z. Mallette," 
 " Ad. Gr. Tourangeau, N.P." 
 
 
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 There is a true copy of this in my office. 
 
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 CONTENTS. :.' -^ •■ ■• 
 
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 Report of Mr Baillairge ....;'......... 1 
 
 Report of Mr Baillairge 16 
 
 A Report of Water Works Comitee 18 
 
 Council Resolution — 19 
 
 ■ Contract between the Corporation of the city of Quebec and 
 
 H. J, Beemer 19 
 
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