while, prior to completion of the drawing, materials and equipment re~
quired by these facilities were requititioned for stockpiling purposes,
As designed, the fire protection system consisted of four 2-inch
standpipes, each provided with a 1-1/2 wharf hydrant, 100 feet of fire
hose, a 1-1/2-inch fog nozzle, and a 20-foot Duralumin clay pipe
equipped with a l-inch fog-head, A booster water pump was provided
which had sufficient capacity for operation of two fog nozzles simul-

taneously at recommended pressure (75 to 100 psig) and for operation

of all four nozzles at minimum pressure.
This pump took its suction
from the island salt water mains and was a self-priming, manuallycontrolled, centrifugal pump. The 20-foot clay pipes were to permit
extinguishing a fire anywhere in the diked area without exposing personnel to undue risk,
Simultaneously with the development of the drawing covering the
water fog fire protection system for Parry Island, a drawing was prepared for a similar system for the fuel storage area on Eniwetok
Island, Prints of this drawing were released to the construction
battalion immediately upon completion in March 1950, It has been
recommended by H&N that, because of the limited use of fuels on the
experiment islands and the short period of occupancy, both motor gasoline and diesel oil be transported to these locations in drums or tanks
by boat from Parry Island. Nothing developed during the course of design to warrant a change in this reasoning, and the diesel fuel storage
facilities as designed for each island consisted of a 3,000 gallon
storage tank for the diesel power plant and a 1,200 gallon tank for the
mess hall equipment, These tanks were estimated to have sufficient
storage capacity for one week's operation.
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Consideration was given to three proposed methods of transporting

the required quantities of diesel fuel from Parry Island to the experiment islands, Each of the three methods required the use of an

*"M" boat for the water travel portion of the trip.

One of the proposed schemes would have required transporting approximately sixty 55-gallon drums of diesel oil to each experiment
island every week, Because the attendant manpower required in filling,

emptying, trucking, loading and unloading this mumber of drums vould
‘have been excessive, this scheme was abandoned.

Another proposed scheme contemplated mounting a 5,000 gallon
horizontal tank on the deck of an "M" boat, Thies tank would have been
filled by tank truck at the cargo pier on Parry Island and emptied by
means of. a gasoline powered pump set at the warious locations requiring
diesel fuel.
The "M" boat would have been docked at the cargo pier at
each location, and the fuel transferred directly into the power plant

and mess hall storage tanks by pumping from the tank on the boat through
underground lines brought to the dock. This scheme had the disadvantage
that it would have required an "M" boat to be deyoted. solely to trans-

porting fuel.

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