pipe and because of electrolysis which caused perforations and leakage
in copper piping, especially in salt water systems.
Table 16,4-2 shows the number of gallons of water distilled at each
site, by months.
TABLE 16,4-2, WATER PRODUCTION, SEPT. 1950-MAY 1951
Month
Eniwetok
1950
Sentember
|
Parry
Runit
Biijiri
Engebi
Japtan
October
November
December
1,772,400
1,510,200
1,750,118
—_——-
1,178,200
202,918
155,202
165,019
222,214
166,419
233,110
209,814
288,034
468,372
430,109
389,092
517,410
102,325
104,916
148,212
1951
January
February
March
1,617,004
1,617,201
2,640,121
1,220,811.
1,489,612
2,106,237
176,132
215,029
268,193
240,109
276,181
392,212
444,617
462,912
605,319
119,913
134,243
191,812
2,334,810
1,851,614
90,102
205,204
148,206
April
May
2,843,610
933,008
867,215
133,310
1,964,003
25,375
252,014
334,996
117,180
160,400
A list of water distillation, storage and distribution equipment;
by sites, is presented below:
Eniwetok (intake direct from lagoon)
Distillation
8 Cleaver-Brooks 60E, 600 gph
8 Badger, Army field, 150 gph
Fresh water storage
1 elevated steel tank, 21,000 gal
5 ground level steel tanks, 42,000 gal
Fresh water distribution
transite mains 3", 4", 6", 22,565 linear
Salt water storage
1 elevated steel tank, 42,000 gal
Salt water distribution
transite mains 4", 6", 22,000 linear feet
feet
3 electric, 1 gasoline driven 50 gpm pumps
Parsy (salt water well, twenty-four and one-half feet deep)
Distillation
Fresh water storage
4 Cleaver-Brooks 60E, 600 gph
18 auxiliary Cleaver-Brooks 17A, 150 gph
1 elevated steel tank, 21,000 gal
2 ground level steel tanks, 21,000 gal
1 concrete reservoir, 187,000 gal
Fresh water distribution
16-20
transite mains 3", 4", 9,110 linear feet