The Reconstruction of Moscow

the capacity of the water supply system in 1939 will be increased to 288,000,000 gallons daily, i.e., it will be nearly doubled as compared with the present capacity. In the subsequent six years, this capacity will be increased to 488,000,000 gallons per day. To realize this plan, new waterworks will be built-^-the Stalin Waterworks, using Volga water, with a daily capacity of 135,000,000 gallon» by 1938; the Northern Waterworks on the Volga, with a capacity of 135,000,000 gallons and the Proletarian Wat- erworks in the southeastern section of the city, with a capacity of 68,000,000 gallons a day. In ten years more thans250 kilometres of mains and nearly 50 kilometres of water-supply pipes Will be laid. At the present time the total length of the water mains is 120 kilometres. Before the/Revolution the Moscow sewage system wa& the most backward of all the municipal facilities. The capacity of the sewage farms was 15,000,000 gallons a day, and the system was 446 kilometres long. Since the Revolution the capacity of the sewage farms has increased to 68,000,000 gallons daily, i.e., almost five times, and the length of the system is now 727 kilometres. The decision of the Council of People's Gommissa.rs of the U.S.S.R. and the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. provides for an increase in the capacity of sewage farm» to 165,000,000 gallons daily in the next three years, and in ten years to 271,000,000 gallons daily, which is four times greater than the present capacity. The capacity of the sewage canals will be increased from the present 54,000,000 gallons daily to 325,000,000 gallons by 1945. The capacity of the heat- and-power stations* will be increased to 675,000 kw. instead of the present 89,000 kw. The Stalin Heat-and-Power Station with a capacity of * Power plants supplying central heating to urban areas by the use of turbine exhaust steam.

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