Documentary History of American Water-works

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Pacific States

Waterworks in Pacific States

The following table showing the number of communities with operating systems.  Numbers in parentheses indicates the number of systems that were proposed but not constructed.


Pacific
 1875
 1800 1805
 1810 1815
 1820 1825
 1830 1835
 1840 1845
 1850 1855
 1860 1865
 1870
 1875
 1880
Washington
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 4
Oregon
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 (1) 3 4 5 7
California
 2 3 3 4
 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 15 27 34 43 54 67
Arizona
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nevada
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 10 13
Utah
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 4
Idaho
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Alaska
 0 0
 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hawaii 0 0 0 0
 0 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Total
 		2
 3
 		3
 4
 		6
 6 6
 6
 		6
 6 (1)
 		6
 8
 		17
 31 (1) 43
 60
 75
 97


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