The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-09-17
EN!NG HERALP- AND Reach THE BUYERS
THE WATER FAMINE.
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Complaints are coming in from all parts of
the region concerning the lack of water
supply and in almost every place other than
this town the collieries and places of resi-
dences are suffering equally from water
famine.
Shenandoah has been remarkably for
tunate this year and until yesterday the new
water works kept up its immense supply
without cessation. Yesterday Superinten-
dent Betterdge concluded, after consulta-
ton with the water committee, that to avoid
as much as possible any danger of cutting
the town supply short it would be better to
cut off the supply of the collieries. This
was done and now only the town is drawing
upon the plant.
The public water works has been doing
grand work while other towns of the region
have been suffering. Few people realize the
amount of water that has been consumed
during the past three weeks. About nine
tenths of the properties in the town have
been and are now regularly supplied, the
Superintendent states, and from August 18th
until yesterday the Shenandoah City, Indian
Ridge and Turkey Run collieries and the
Bore Hole consumed 2,6OO,OOO gallons of
water, or an average of over 15O, 900 gallons a
day.
The supply was not cut off from the col
lieries until they had time to make connec-
tions with the supply from the Lost Creek
reservoirs, but this is not sufficient and.n the
absence of good rain or some other re-
plenishment of the public water works the
collieries enumerated are liable to shut down
at any time. 1t was doubtful to-day whether
they would be able to work full shift The
pumps at the collieries cannot work regularly
with the supply from the Lost Creek reser-
voirs it is said In fact, they are obliged to
shut down frequently until the supply pipes
fill up. The reservoir at Waste House Run is
completely exhausted and the collieries are
cut off from any relief at Mahanoy City by
the famine that exists there.
In connection with the supply of the public
water works running short it must be re-
membered that great quantities of water
have been wasted while the work of making
the connections with properties has been
going ON during the past month.
At present there is no intention of curtail-
ing the water supply The authorities be-
lieve that with the collieries cut off the town
will be able to pull through the drought with
the regular supply until the reservoirs are
replenished.
Mr.. Silliman, of the Mahanoy City Water
Company, has given the newspapers of that
town some very peculiar figures as to the
water supply of that town and Shenandoah,
or else the newspapers have them mixed, and
the story reads straight enough. According
to Mr.. Silliman his company has flow of
| 100000 gallons per day, and yet they have to
restrict consumption materially after cutting
off all collieries nearly two months ago. 1t is
doubtful if the consumption of the town will
aggregate 100000 gallons per day, and it is
therefore rather difficult to understand the
reason for shutting off water at all if the
/ flow is as stated. Mr.. Silliman's figures as to
the flow of water in Davis Run which
/ supplies Shenandoah are the most surprising
He states that the stream flows but psi, 6S3
gallons in "a hours. As the stream is daily
supplying about 4OO,O 600 gallons to the people
of town and also supplied the collieries up to
yesterday it leaves all Mr.. Silliman' S
measurements open to grave doubt. Our
supply to the collieries has averaged over
100000 gallons per day, and the town con
sumption is estimated at from 100000 to
100000 per day Last year at the very dry
est season the measurements indicated flow
of nearly SOC, 600 gallons in "a hours
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