Seattle Municipal Archives
PO Box 94728
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98124-4728
Phone: 206/233-7807
Email: archives@seattle.gov
http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives
8200-10
Seattle
(Wash.). Water Dept.
Seattle Water Department Historical
Files
1889-1964
4.6 cubic feet
12 boxes
Public documents and research notes that
were gathered in the process of writing a history of the Seattle Water
Department. Collection materials are in
English
Historical Note
From 1854 until 1890, Seattle's water was provided by wells, springs and
private water companies. A public waterworks was created by City Charter
Amendment in 1875. However, Seattle was served primarily by small private water
companies for the next decade and a half. In 1888, prompted by a tenfold
population increase during the previous decade, Seattle's mayor and city
council called for an election to decide if the city should own and operate its
own water system.
Shortly before the election, the "Great Seattle Fire" of June 6, 1889,
destroyed the entire 64-acre business district. A major contributor to the
widespread destruction was the lack of water available from the patchwork of
private water suppliers. The vote on establishing a municipally-owned water
system was approved by a resounding 1,875 to 51 margin.
In 1890, a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed municipalities to issue
bonds secured by future revenues. Shortly thereafter, Seattle issued $845,000
in bonds and purchased two private water companies -- the Spring Hill Water
Company and the Union Water Company -- both of which pumped water from Lake
Union and Lake Washington. In 1895, Seattle residents again voted to approve
revenue bonds, this time to construct the Cedar River water system. Water first
flowed from the Cedar River into Seattle's system on January 10, 1901. Water
was diverted by a dam at Landsburg, and then was channeled into a
newly-completed 28.57 mile pipeline. This pipeline carried water to the
Volunteer Park and Lincoln reservoirs on Capitol Hill in Seattle, which were
also built at the time. This new system had a capacity of 23.5 million gallons
per day.
The system was administered by the Superintendent of Water under the
auspices of the Board of Public Works. In 1905 the Department of Lighting and
Water Works was created. Five years later, the Water Department became a
separate entity. In 1909, a second pipeline was added, providing an additional
45 million gallon per day capacity to meet the water needs of a fast-growing
Seattle. The next water supply source was not added until 1964, when the South
Fork of the Tolt River began supplying north Seattle and the Eastside. In 1987,
the first ground water source was added to the system when two wells in the
Highline Well Field began operation. A third well was added in 1990.
In 1997 the Water Department was consolidated with the utilities of the
Engineering Department to form Seattle Public Utilities.
The Water Department Historical Files, an artificial collection of
public documents that were gathered in the process of writing an agency
history, contains two types of records. The first type is comprised of the
records that Mary McWilliams compiled from several sources within the
department. These include correspondence, reports, leases, ordinances,
specifications, articles and speeches, contracts, financial records, and other
records relating to the history of the Water Department and the City's water
system. The second type consists of McWilliams' research notes and a typescript
of her book manuscript.
The departmental records that McWilliams pulled together are a valuable
compilation of materials that cannot be found elsewhere. Examples are
Superintendent Luther B. Youngs' correspondence (1906-1923); various reports on
the water system and water-related issues by Benezette Williams, Reginald H.
Thomson, and Virgil Bogue; forest management correspondence and reports by the
department's forester, Allen E. Thompson; health and sanitation records related
to the watershed; and documents providing information on logging and railroads
in the watershed. The records also provide a glimpse at the organizational
structure of the department, municipal utility finances, and other detailed
minutiae including equipment inventories and civil service issues.
A small body of material was added to the collection after McWilliams
finished the book. Presumably this was done with the idea that the collection
would serve as a living body of records that would serve a reference function
for the department.
McWilliams' research notes include drafts of topical sections, partial
transcriptions of interviews, transcribed copies of records that she was not
allowed to compile into this collection, and various other notes. Examples
include 13 pages she transcribed from the 1916 Joint Report of the City
Engineer and Superintendent of Water Works, and a 1934 report by R.H. Thomson
on the possibility of incorporating the Tolt River watershed into the City's
water system. In using these notes, researchers should be aware the dates given
to the folders are the dates McWilliams compiled the notes. The dates of issues
and events covered by the notes are often found in the folder titles.
In 1914, assistant superintendent John Lamb produced a brief
departmental history titled
Seattle Municipal Water Plant. In 1947, superintendent
Chester Morse assigned G.B. Schunke the task of updating Lamb's work. Schunke
in turn assigned the job to David Wallborn. However, Wallborn died within five
months and the project was set aside until March 1949, when an ordinance was
passed appropriating funds to compile the history.
Morse again assigned the writing to Schunke; unfortunately he died in
May. Morse then requested that Mary McWilliams, a stenographer in the
department for over three decades, postpone retirement in order to compile data
and information so he could put together a chronicle. However, Morse himself
died in September 1949, and the responsibility for writing the history was
given to McWilliams.
McWilliams gathered historical documents, especially related to the
Cedar River Watershed and the pipelines, and corresponded with or interviewed
former department employees and City officials. Her work was published by the
City in 1955 under the title
Seattle Water Department History, 1854-1954: Operational Data and
Memoranda.
The collection is arranged into the following categories:
- Administration
- Finance
- Forest Management
- Lighting
- Property Acquisition
- Railroads
- Storage and Distribution
- Timber
- Water Quality
- Water Systems
- Mary McWilliams Research Notes
Records are open to the public.
[Item and date], Seattle Water Department
Historical Files, Record Series 8200-10. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle
Municipal Archives.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
McWilliams,
Mary
Seattle
(Wash.). Water Dept.
Seattle
(Wash.). Dept. of Lighting and Water Works
Seattle
(Wash.)
Cedar River
Watershed (King County, Wash.)
Water utilities--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Water quality--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Watersheds--Washington
(State)
Acquisition of
property--Washington (State)
Railroads--Washington
(State)
Pipelines--Washington
(State)
Forest
management--Washington (State)
Water
distribution--Washington (State)--Seattle
Reservoirs--Washington
(State)
Timber--Washington
(State)
Water purification
chlorination--Washington (State)--Seattle
Water and Water Rights
Environmental Conditions
Public Utilities
Seattle
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Administrative
Records
Subseries 1: Annual
Reports
1/1
Annual
Report.
1895
1/2
Annual
Report.
1896
1/3
Annual Report. Synopsis
of the Present Conditions and Needs.
1898-1899
1/4
Annual Report. Synopsis
of the Present Conditions and Needs.
1899-1900
1/5
Annual
Report.
1901
1/6
Annual
Report.
1910
1/7
Annual
Report.
1912
1/8
Annual
Report.
1913
1/9
Annual
Report.
1914
1/10
Annual
Report.
1915
1/11
Annual
Report.
1924
1/12
Annual
Report.
1926-1927
Subseries 2: Superintendents'
Correspondence
1/13
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1906-1907
1/14
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1908
1/15
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1909
1/16
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1910
1/17
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1911
1/18
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1912-1913
1/19
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1914-1916
1/20
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1917-1919
1/21
L.B. Youngs,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1921-1923
1/22
George F. Russell,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1923-1925
1/23
L. Murray Grant,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1926-1927
1/24
W.B. Severyns,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1928-1930
1/25
A.F. Marion,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1931
1/26
H.D. Fowler,
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1934
1/27
W.C. Morse.
Superintendent. Correspondence.
1940-1947
1/28
Ray Heath,
Superintendent. Reports, Presentations and Published Articles.
1956-1964
1/29
Ray Heath,
Superintendent. Brief Sketch of Career.
1966
Subseries 3: Issue/Subject
Files
1/30
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Exposition.
1908-1910
1/31
Brief Statement of the
Operations of the Washington Territory Volunteer Force as it Affected Cedar
River Watershed History. Muster.
1856
1/32
Cedar River Watershed
Transient Camps. Typhoid Vaccinations.
1923-1934
1/33
City Charter. Response to
Proposal for Commission Form of City Government.
1916
1/34
City Water
Statistics.
1902-1904
2/1
Correspondence Related to
Water Works Laws and Rules.
1909-1935
2/2
Court Cases Related to
Water Works.
1906-1934
2/3
Decade of Progess of the
Seattle Water Department.
1965
2/4
Estimated Cost Per Capita
of Operating City Government.
1909-1914
2/5
Fire Boat Alki Acceptance
Tests.
1927-1928
2/6
Fort Tilton History,
1856. Cedar River Watershed.
1927-1949
2/7
Frost Depth
Penetration.
1929
2/8
James M. Ferguson,
Maintenance Engineer Correspondence.
1923-1927
2/9
Final Report to the Board
of Public Works on Specifications for the Proposed Water Works System
(Benezette Williams).
1891
2/10
Green Lake Replenishing
Report. Park Board Committee.
1922
2/11
Henry R. Herold, Chief
Engineer.
1968
2/12
Lake Youngs
Development.
1924-1927
2/13
John Lamb
Correspondence.
1911-1928
2/14
Legal Opinions Related to
Water Works.
1913-1932
2/15
Lewis & Wiley Inc.
Jackson and Dearborn Streets Regrades.
1908-1912
2/16
New Chamber of Commerce
Report on Cedar River Water System.
1911
2/17
Notes on Placing Lake
Youngs Reservoir in Service.
1925
2/18
Preliminary Report to the
Mayor and City Council on a Proposed Water Works System (Benezette
Williams).
1889
2/19
Presidential
Proclamations. Washington Forest Reserve Snoqualmie National
Forest.
1902-1911
2/20
Public
Relations.
1909-1948
2/21
Report of the Proposed
Tide Lands of Seattle Harbor, By Virgil G. Bogue.
1895
2/22
Report on the Industrial
Water Supply of Seattle and the Industrial Zoning of Lake Washington. Chamber
of Commerce.
1927
2/23
G.B. Schunke, Assistant
Superintendent.
1939-1949
2/24
Seattle
Population.
1900-1941
2/25
Starting of a Bridge in
Bellevue (Speech).
1938
2/26
Swan Lake
Development.
1920
2/27
Allen E. Thompson.
American Forestry Association Conservation Award Nomination.
1956-1958
2/28
The Use and Development
of the Cedar River Watershed, by Allen E. Thompson.
1948
2/29
Water for Canal
Lockage.
1938
2/30
Water Troughs and Horse
Drinking Fountains.
1906-1943
2/31
Water Works Report.
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
1894
2/32
Water Flow Test. City
Hydrants near Todd Dry Dock.
1923
2/33
World War I. Issues and
Affects.
1917-1921
2/34
World War II.
Issues.
1941-1942
Subseries 4: Personnel and
Payroll
2/35
Civil
Service.
1927
2/36
Civil Service Employee
Efficiency Ratings.
1921-1922
2/37
Employee
Lists.
1908-1910
2/38
Employees Requiring
Transportation on Street Railways.
1911-1912
2/39
Industrial Insurance
Costs.
1925-1930
2/40
Personnel
Issues.
1908-1927
2/41
Salary and Classification
Issues.
1921-1923
2/42
Salary and Positions.
Correspondence.
1909-1927
2/43
Salaries by
Position.
1902-1927
2/44
Unemployment
Issues.
1925-1932
Subseries 5: Property/Office
Space
3/1
Office
Locations.
1908-1913
3/2
Office Locations. Lease
and Agreements.
1907-1915
3/3
Water Department
Properties by District.
1947
3/4
South Shops.
1908-1932
Subseries 6: Supplies and
Equipment
3/5
Horses and
Vehicles.
1906-1921
3/6
Horses in Water
Department.
1910
3/7
Hydrolic Turbine
Pumps.
1934-1935
3/8
Inventory. Equipment on
Hand at Landsburg.
1918
3/9
Inventory of Furniture
(Jan. 1).
1913
3/10
Inventory of Stock and
Supplies (Jan. 1).
1907
3/11
Inventory of Stock and
Supplies.
1910
3/12
Inventory. Summary of
Water Department Inventory.
1906
3/13
Inventory of Tools,
Property, and 6" Valves on Pipeline.
1901
3/14
Pont-a-Mousson Cast Iron
Pipe.
1924-1926
Finance
3/15
Accounting System. Proposed
Comptroller Work.
1922
3/16
Accounting System. Schedule
of Accounts.
1914
3/17
Accounting System. Notes on
New Accounting System, Light and Water Department.
1910-1911
3/18
Accounting System. Voters
Information League. Analysis of Water Department Financial Condition and
Department Response.
1927
3/19
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1913
3/20
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1914
3/21
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1915
3/22
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1916
3/23
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1917
3/24
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1918
3/25
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1919
4/1
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1920
4/2
Financial Operations Annual
Report.
1921
4/3
Budget Estimates Including
Salaries by Position.
1906-1911
4/4
Cost of Water
Plant.
1906-1909
4/5
Financial Matters.
Miscellaneous.
1911-1935
4/6
Financial
Statements.
1912-1926
4/7
Local Improvement District
Costs.
1922-1925
4/8
Loans form Water Fund to
Cedar River Watershed Extension Utility Bond Fund.
1917-1928
4/9
Masonry Dam. Financial
Statements.
1917
4/10
Revenues and Expenses,
Estimated.
1921-1935
4/11
Revenues and Expenses
Comparison.
1893-1920
4/12
State Auditor Report, Water
Department First Examination.
1915
4/13
Taxes. Cost for the
Maintenance of City Government.
1923
4/14
Trial Balance, General
Ledger.
1908-1912
4/15
Water Fund. Approxiamate
Statement of Construction Expenditures.
1908
4/16
Water Funds. Bonds and
Bonded Indeptedness.
1908-1934
4/17
Water Rates
Issues.
1916
4/18
Water Rates.
Correspondence.
1914
4/19
Water Supply and Changes.
Commercial Property.
1915-1916
Forest Management
4/20
Fire Protection. Patrolling
the Cedar River Watershed.
1918-1919
4/21
Fires in the Cedar River
Watershed.
1920-1927
4/22
Cedar River Watershed Forest
Management.
1911-1915
4/23
Cedar River Watershed Forest
Management.
1916
4/24
Forest Management on the
Cedar River Watershed, by Allen E. Thompson.
1949
4/25
Hamilton C. Johnson. Cedar
River Watershed Forest Ranger.
1912-1915
4/26
Report of the Forester on the
Cedar River Watershed.
1925-1929
5/1
Report on Planting
Operations. Spring 1925.
1925
5/2
Report on the Reforestation
of the Lands in the Cedar River Watershed (RH Ober and HC Johnson
Report).
1913
5/3
Report on the Reforestation
of the Lands in the Cedar River Watershed (RH Ober and HC Johnson
Report).
1913
5/4
Allen E. Thompson. Reports,
Presentations and Published Articles on Forest Management.
1948-1963
5/5
Tree Planting and
Reforestation in the Cedar River Watershed.
1914-1950
Lighting
5/6
Moore Theater. Street
Lighting.
1909
5/7
Street Lighting
Specifications.
1897
5/8
Union Electric Company
Agreement.
1893
5/9
Contract Electric Lighting.
Investigation of Costs.
undated
Property Acquisition
5/10
Cedar River Watershed.
Abstract of Title. SE Quarter, Sect. 15, Township 23.
1910
5/11
Cedar River Watershed
Condemnation Account.
1913
5/12
Ellet Property. Purchase and
Condemnation. Appraisal, Timber Cruise and Condemnation.
1891-1925
5/13
Hearing to Authorize Seattle
to Purchase Federal Lands to Protect Source of Water Supply (U.S. House
Committee on Public Lands).
1911
5/14
Judgement on Verdicts.
Ordinance 3990.
1895
5/15
Town of Cedar Falls.
Leases.
1920
5/16
Town of Cedar Falls.
Leases.
1921-1928
5/17
Town of Cedar Falls. Leases.
Correspondence.
1920-1927
5/18
Town of Cedar Falls.
Assignment and Releases of Leases.
1921-1928
5/19
Property Ownership and
Transactions.
1899-1923
5/20
Forestry. Purchase of Lands
in Cedar River Watershed.
1899-1913
5/21
Real Property in Custody of
Water Department. Property Value.
1917-1934
5/22
Relinquishment of Rights to
Land by City.
1922-1923
6/1
Report on Cedar River
Watershed Proposed Land Grant to the City of Seattle.
1910
6/2
Seattle Tidelands.
Acquisition and Sale.
1923-1946
6/3
Wood's Greenlake Park
Addition. Quit Claim Deeds, Real Estate Contracts, Correspondence.
1925-1928
Railroads
6/4
Cedar Falls Railway. Cost
Adjustment Between Lighting and Water Departments.
1913-1916
6/5
Railroads in the Cedar River
Watershed. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific RR Co.
1909-1934
6/6
Chicago, St. Paul and
Pacific Rail Road Company.
1907-1919
6/7
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
and Pacific RailRoad Company.
1920-1934
6/8
Railroads in the Cedar River
Watershed. Columbia and Puget Sound Railway Company.
1909
6/9
Railroads in the Cedar River
Watershed. Great Northern Railway Company.
1925
6/10
Great Northern Railway
Line.
1906-1907
6/11
Railroads in the Cedar River
Watershed. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
1908-1925
6/12
Railroads in the Cedar River
Watershed. Pacific Coast Railroad Co.
1917-1934
6/13
Report on Logging Railroads
of Pacific States Lumber Co.
undated
6/14
Seattle Southeastern Railway
Company.
1910
Storage and
Distribution
6/15
Distribution
Costs.
1910-1919
6/16
Municipal League Report on
Breaks in Cedar River Pipeline.
1916
6/17
Pipeline Capacities and
Proposed Extensions of Water Supply.
1938-1939
6/18
Pipeline Data.
1910-1940
6/19
Pipeline Data. Engineering
News Record.
1913-1946
6/20
Pipeline Data. Pont-a-Mousson
Pipe.
1925-1930
6/21
Pipeline #1. Beacon Avenue
Reservoir and Pipeline.
1916-1928
6/22
Pipeline #1. Claims,
Receipts, and Water Fund Warrants.
1889-1901
6/23
Pipeline #1. Construction.
Pacific Bridge Co.
1899-1901
6/24
Pipeline #1.
Damage/Independent Work Assessment from Construction.
1909-1910
6/25
Pipeline #1. Estimates of
Work Completed, Division 1. Pacific Bridge Co.
1899-1901
7/1
Pipeline #1. Municipal League
Report. Water System Investigation.
1925
7/2
Pipeline #1. WH Plachy
Correspondence. First Pipeline Surveyor.
1913-1927
7/3
Pipeline #1. Reconstruction
Costs.
1911-1917
7/4
Pipeline #1. Reconstruction
Costs. Comparative Statements.
1916-1917
7/5
Pipeline #1. Right of
Way.
1901-1926
7/6
Pipeline #1. Steel
Pipe.
1910-1928
7/7
Pipeline #1. Wood
Staves.
1908-1913
7/8
Pipeline #2. Correspondence
and Estimates.
1908-1925
7/9
Pipeline #2. Estimates of
Work Completed, Divisions 2 and 3. Smyth, Wakefield and David.
1899
7/10
Pipeline #2 and 3.
Correspondence and Agreements.
1909-1920
7/11
Pipeline #2 and 3.
Correspondence and Agreements.
1922-1928
7/12
Pipeline #2 and 3.
Correspondence and Agreements.
1931-1933
7/13
Pipeline #3. Correspondence
and Agreements.
1913-1920
7/14
Pipeline #3. Correspondence
and Agreements.
1921-1930
7/15
Pipeline #3. Correspondence
and Agreements.
1931-1933
7/16
Pipeline #3. LID
3444.
1910-1932
7/17
Proposals, Specifications,
and Contract.
1922
7/18
Reservoirs, Water Tanks,
Standpipes, and Pumping Stations.
1904-1910
7/19
Reservoirs, Water Tanks,
Standpipes, and Pumping Stations.
1911-1920
8/1
Reservoirs, Water Tanks,
Standpipes, and Pumping Stations.
1921-1930
8/2
Reservoirs, Water Tanks,
Standpipes, and Pumping Stations.
1931-1935
8/3
Reservoirs, Water Tanks,
Standpipes, and Pumping Stations. Capacity.
1946-1947
8/4
Water Mains.
1923-1935
8/5
Water Mains. Franchise to Lay
Water Mains and Pipe. C.K. Sturdevant (Hullman City).
1903-1906
8/6
Water Meters and
Metering.
1905-1932
Timber
8/7
Cedar River Watershed.
General.
1909-1910
8/8
Cedar River Watershed.
General.
1911-1919
8/9
Cedar River Watershed.
General.
1922-1927
8/10
Cruising Instructions and
Timber Purchase Contract.
1910-1929
8/11
Cruised Timber in Cedar Lake
Watershed.
undated
8/12
Deeds. Cedar River
Watershed.
1905-1913
8/13
Logging Companies. Bowers
Timber Co. Illegal Logging Dispute.
1926-1927
8/14
Logging Companies. Cascade
Timber Co. Quit Claim Deed.
1906
8/15
Logging Companies. Cedar
Lake Logging Co. Timber Sales and Land to be Submerged.
1913-1927
8/16
Logging Companies. Kent
Lumber Co. Taylor Creek Dam.
1924
8/17
Logging Companies. Northern
Pacific Railway Co. Right of Way.
1913-1924
8/18
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1940-1941
8/19
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1937-1939
8/20
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1935-1936
8/21
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1929-1934
9/1
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1927-1928
9/2
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1922-1926
9/3
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1916-1921
9/4
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co.
1912-1915
9/5
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co. Contracts of Sale.
1917-1928
9/6
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co. v. City of Seattle. Chronological Statement of Exhibits Taken
from the Public Record.
1930
9/7
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co. v. City of Seattle. Stumpage.
undated
9/8
Logging Companies. Pacific
States Lumber Co. v. City of Seattle. Superior Court Documents.
1930-1931
9/9
Report on Cruise and
Appraisal.
1915
9/10
Report on Breakage in
Falling.
1912
9/11
Sale of Timber at Cedar Lake
by R.H. Ober.
1913
9/12
Seattle Engineering
Department. Lumber Inventory.
1915
9/13
Stumpage. Cedar Lake Logging
Co. and Pacific States Lumber Co.
1916-1934
9/14
Timber Contracts and Bills
of Sales.
1902-1924
9/15
Weyerhaeuser Company.
Memorandum Statement of Facts in Connection with the Acquisition of Timber
Belonging to Weyerhaeuser.
1912
Water Quality
9/16
Cedar River Watershed.
Conditions at the Source. Chamber of Commerce Study.
1912
9/17
Cedar River Watershed
[Quality] Investigation.
1926
9/18
Chlorination Report.
Landsburg Dam Keeper, JH Hopkins.
1916-1917
9/19
Chlorination Report.
Landsburg Dam Keeper, JH Hopkins.
1918-1919
9/20
Chlorination Report.
Landsburg Dam Keeper, JH Hopkins.
1920-1923
9/21
Chlorine Control
Apparatus.
1917-1922
9/22
Logging and Water Quality
Concerns. Mark A. Matthews.
1927
9/23
Regulations Governing the
Operation and Maintenance of the Landsburg Chlorination and Copper Sulfate
Treating Plants.
1926-1927
9/24
Sanitation and
Chlorination.
1909-1910
9/25
Sanitation and
Chlorination.
1911-1920
9/26
Sanitation and
Chlorination.
1921-1925
9/27
Sanitation and
Chlorination.
1926-1930
9/28
Sanitation and
Chlorination.
1931-1934
9/29
Sanitation and Chlorination.
Bacteriological Examinations.
1911-1931
9/30
Sanitation and Chlorination.
Water Analysis.
1915-1932
Water Systems
10/1
Ballard Water
System.
1903-1927
10/2
Ballard Water System.
Contracts and Agreements to Supply Water. City of Ballard.
1902-1905
10/3
Ballard and Fort Lawton Water
Systems.
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10/4
Columbia, Town of. Contracts
and Agreements to Supply Water.
1902-1903
10/5
Dunlap. A.H. Clambey
Agreement.
1905
10/6
Columbia Heights Water
Syndicate Agreement.
1906-1907
10/7
Fort Lawton Water
System.
1898-1924
10/8
Georgetown. Contracts and
Agreements to Supply Water Georgetown Water Company.
1903-1905
10/9
Georgetown Water
System.
1905-1921
10/10
Hillman City. Contracts and
Agreements to Supply Water. R.R. Spencer
1903
10/11
Thomas, John W.
Agreement.
1905
10/12
Systems Taken Over by
Seattle.
1904-1908
Mary McWilliams Research
Notes
10/13
Annual Reports. (MCW Notes).
1891-1951
1949-1952
10/14
Chlorination, 1892-1952 (MCW
Notes).
1950-1952
10/15
Chlorination. JH Hopkins
Weekly Reports, 1916-1923. Landsburg Damkeeper (MCW Notes).
1952
10/16
Cotterill, George. Interview
re Revenue Bonds (MCW Notes).
1950
10/17
Early Water Systems. Incl.
Spring Hill Water Co. and Correspondence with Kinnear Family (MCW
Notes).
1949-1952
10/18
Financial Matters, 1899-1932
(MCW Notes).
1950
10/19
Fin-Back, 1880-1881 (MCW
Notes).
1952
10/20
Fires in the Watershed (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
10/21
Forest Ranger, Hamilton C.
Johnson, 1912-1915 (MCW Notes).
1951
10/22
Foresty and Forest Management
1925-1951 (MCW Notes).
1949-1954
10/23
Forestry.
Thompson-Winkenwerder Report (MCW Notes).
1950
10/24
Fort Tilton History (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
10/25
Frost Depth, 1913-1929 (MCW
Notes).
1950
10/26
Haller Lake (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
10/27
Horses and Water Troughs (MCW
Notes).
1951
10/28
John Lamb's Water Department
History (MCW Notes).
1951-1952
10/29
Land Acquisition and
Ownership Tabulations 1890-1950 (MCW Notes).
1951-1952
10/30
Laws Relating to Water Works
1907-1944 (MCW Notes).
1950-1951
10/31
Light and Water (MCW
Notes).
1951-1959
11/1
Logging the Watershed (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
11/2
Logging the Watershed (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
11/3
Men at Work Tabulations (MCW
Notes).
1950
11/4
North End Extensions
(MCW).
1950-1951
11/5
Office Locations (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
11/6
Outside Water Systems.
Contracts, Agreements and Acquisition, 1898-1950 (MCW Notes).
1950-1951
11/7
Personnel Matters (MCW
Notes).
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11/8
Pipeline #1, 1891-1948 (MCW
Notes).
1950-1958
11/9
Pipeline #1. W.H. Plachy
Correspondence, 1889-1922 (MCW Notes).
1950
11/10
Pipeline #2 and 3 (MCW
Notes).
1949-1951
11/11
Pipeline #3 (MCW
Notes).
1950
11/12
Pipeline #3. Joint Report of
City Engineer and Superintendent of Water Development, 1916 (MCW
Notes).
1950
11/13
Pipeline Data. 1910-1946 (MCW
Notes).
1949-1952
11/14
Public Relations, 1909-1948
(MCW Notes).
1950-1951
11/15
Reservoirs, Tanks,
Standpipes, Pumps, 1898-1933 (MCW Notes).
1949-1952
11/16
Reservoirs, Tanks,
Standpipes, Pumps. Property, 1909-1951 (MCW Notes).
1951
11/17
Reservoirs, Tanks,
Standpipes, Pumps. Storage and Distribution Capacity. 1893-1949 (MCW
Notes).
1949-1951
11/18
Revenue Bonds. Original Issue
(MCW Notes).
1951-1952
11/19
Sanitation, Health, and Water
Quality (MCW Notes).
1951
11/20
Seattle Tidelands, 1927-1946
(MCW Notes).
1949-1951
11/21
South Shops Property,
1892-1948 (MCW Notes).
1949-1951
11/22
Superintendents and Mayor's
Lists, 1888-1950 (MCW Notes).
1950-1951
11/23
Thompson, Allen E. Forester
(MCW Notes).
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11/24
Tolt River Watershed,
1928-1951 (MCW Notes).
1951-1952
11/25
Union Electric Company,
1893-1894 (MCW Notes).
1950
11/26
Wartime, 1916-1943 (MCW
Notes).
1950
11/27
Water-Driven Turbine Pumps,
1935-1944 (MCW Notes).
1951-1952
11/28
Water Funds, 1909-1948 (MCW
Notes).
1950-1951
11/29
Water Meters and Metering,
1888-1949 (MCW Notes).
1949-1951
11/30
Water System Information.
Other Communities (MCW Notes).
1950-1951
11/31
Benezette Williams Reports
and Cedar River Watershed Development, 1889-1947 (MCW Notes).
1951-1958
11/32
Abel Wolman Report and
Background, 1910-1951 (MCW Notes).
1950-1951
12/1
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
1-50).
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12/2
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
51-100).
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12/3
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
101-150).
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12/4
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
151-200).
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12/5
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
201-250).
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12/6
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
251-300).
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12/7
Manuscript Draft. (pp.
301-316).
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