History of Victoria, British Columbia - Sooke Flowline, Victoria Machinery Depot, Fort Victoria, Congregation Emanu-El (Victoria (Paperback)

Chapters: Sooke Flowline, Victoria Machinery Depot, Fort Victoria, Congregation Emanu-El (Victoria, British Columbia), Craigdarroch Castle, Captain E.g. Beaumont, Point Ellice Bridge Disaster, Helmcken House, Sisters of St. Ann, 143rd Battalion, Cef, 88th Battalion, Cef. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Sooke Flowline is an abandoned 44 kilometer (27 mi) concrete aqueduct that snakes through the Sooke Hills from Sooke Lake to the Humpback Reservoir near Mt. Wells Regional Park. This pipeline was vital to the continued growth of the City of Victoria as it provided a reliable water supply. Elk Lake used to be the water supply for Victoria and when Colquitz Creek was dammed, it merely flooded the swamp and merged Elk and Beaver Lakes. Unfortunately the intake was at the swampy, shallow end of the reservoir. In the early 1900s, it was determined that Elk/Beaver Lake could no longer meet Victoria's water needs. The daily draw from the lake was just too great and despite measures taken to buy time, such as filter ponds, the pressure and supply was too little and sediment and amphibians were getting drawn out through the lake's intake. During the year of 1912, the city expropriated 40 property owners on Sooke Lake and on the proposed flowline right-of-way (ROW) at great cost. The city hired the Pacific Lock Joint Pipe Company to cast the pipe segments and using their patented design, constructed the pipeline. In between 19111915, this major engineering project employed over 400 workers and housed their families in rural Sooke. The pipe is almost completely flat. Although figures vary, the slope from Sooke Lake to Humpback is between 0.0947% and 0.119% when the inverted siphons are excluded. At a factory located on the Goodridge Peninsula, at the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2530482