Water Lifted By Compressed Air
For Municipal, Manufacturing, Irrigation or Other Water Supply

Air Lift Plant at City Water Works, Corsicana, Texas. Pumps from Wells About Two Miles Apart. One Compressor Can Pump from Different Groups of Wells. Where large quantities of water are required it is usually necessary to pump from a number of wells, and by the Air Lift System this can be done with only one compressor; as, for instance, at the water works of Ocean Grove, N. J., where they pump 2,500,000 gallons daily from a series of twenty wells, all quite a distance apart and almost a half a mile away from the compressor; or at Camden, N. J., where 5,000,000 gallons are raised at a distance of over 4,000’feet from the compressor. The wells themselves require no attention, as they are regulated by the flow of air, and it makes no diflêroncô liow many wells are on the same line, how they are scattered, or how far away. The principle is tlis same, and. it is simply a Question of a properly arranged pipe line, and valves for each well. Where good water is not at hand an air line can usually bring it from a distance cheaper and better than by any other means. Free Condensing Water for Water Works. There is porlinps no other situation in mechanical enginogrin0, where so great a saving in fuel consumption can be effected with so small an investment as by the use of a condenser in water works plants operating piston pumps and air compressors. Usually no extra ex- 19