News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-12-12
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MIR. +. q. CuswOrth, who pers oOal-
ly t5ok he Job to cover the new
reservoir. completed his work, or as
much ~ eau we'll be done this winter
last Friday noon, the building hav-
ing been completed in every way ex-
cppt the roof covering over the
boarding, which is TO be patent three
ply roofing and viii be put on, when
il comes warm enough to handle it
to good advantage.
If one was to know just the correct
figures in extent of pipe, reservoir,
capacity, and all such details as con-
nected with the entire water system
now owned and operated by the
village corporation, including the
different springs the three reser-
voirs, and all their connections, the
street piping, house and hydrant
connections, on both the old and the
new systems, if the full total was to
be presented one would be good
deal surprised at the extensive plant
that We as village now have.
A year ago now the Village Trus-
tees put in some over three miles of
pipe from the Bugbee springs. Aside
from that work and the recent eX-
TENSIONS ON Mount Pleasant and
Randolph streets, there has been laid
under ground 10 the past few months
1862 feet of 12-inch iron pipe, 1882
feet Of 10-iDch pipe, 1917 feet S-inch
pipe, 1906 feet of 6-uch pipe, 69Ol
feet OF 4-iuch pipa, or a total of 49,
4lS feet of pipe representing some
thing over three hundred and fifty
tous of iron, not including specials or
hydrants. The putting down of this
plTe and construction of the new
reservoir on the LeBarron site was
done under contract by Chas. l..
Woodbury. of Burlington with Mr.. F..
e. Cudworth, competent engineer,
in charge the most Of the time. This
third, and largest, reservoir now
owned by the corporation, is 40 feet
wide and 125 feet long on, the bot
tom at depth of ten feet, the sides
and ends slopiDg to considerable
larger dimensions at the top. There
wert something like 1390cubic yards
of earth excavation in it's constrnc-
ton, or would have been had rock
not appeared. Rock was met with,
making it necessary to blast and re-
move about 125 cubic yards of stone.
Owing to The difficulty met in pre-
serving stakes and lines while blast
ing, the concrete walls are not exactly
to line The reservoir walls are with
the exception of the bottom, which is
largely OF rock formation, construct.
ed If concrete one foot in thickness.
composed of R0sendale cement,
gravel and sand, 315 barrels of ce-
mpnt being us"d in the work.
The proportions used in, tie con
stInc ION Of the walls were onn of
{ m"nt, two of SAUDI and five OF
gravel. The nature of a concrete
wall is t. grow stronger and harder
with age, NJ to a certain time, which
depends largely upon the nature Of
he cenelit used. ROsendaie cement
concrete will. it is claimed, at the age
of one week resist more than one and
one-half times the pressure that
would crush a common lime and
stone wall, and at The age of three
years it is claimed to be as strong as
the best granite, the crushing
strength of which is forty tons per
cubic foot. Morrisville has, in the
past year and a half, in the purchase
Of new springs, putting in of an elab-
crate system, and purchase of the
old system constructed by Warren &
Of Waterbury, made great
strides in the water question, a prop
arty we'll owned. The combined reser-
voir capacity now in use viii reach
nearly or quite $50, 700 gallons.