The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-29
Affidavit.
Berkeley. Va. Sept. Goth. 1896.


Berkeley, Va, Sept Goth. 1896
This day personally appeared before
me Il. ~ Mccoy. Mayor OF the town of
hrrNieE in the state aforesaid. Charles
HiiNen. and made oath that the ANALYSIS
"' water herewith subjoincd is an exact
COPY OF the analysis mada by Frederic
J.. Dewey. "f the City of Washington,
": G.. which said water the said Charles
!;hVen further aiiirmed. was taken from
Va
'SicncD CHARLES BLIyEN.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me
ms 10Th dav of september, in the year
of 1896.
tSigneD Il. A. mccoy
Mlvor of Town of 5erklcy, Va.
do not cxpect or desire to get for
tune out of it, as my friend has sug-
"eStcd. and neither is IL chimerical. as
nave made sufficient experiments to
'uSLIiN mo in stating that a bond OF IL
miilion dollars can he secured If nccCs-
sarH as guarantee OF the quality of
this water. 1t is a desire on my part to
see the CITY of Norfolk obtain Il pune
supplN OF water. as | can conceive of
nothing that would be of greater benefit
10 her. have no reason to doubt that
ire water contained in the Northwest
river Is as pure as any water that can
De iound IN any open lakes or rivers in
inns section of the country. but all OF
1t is heavily loaded with dccompos"d
vegetable matter. This alone would
make II an unpopular water for drink
ing and laundry purposes. Las, year
Northwest river was nearly dry Then
AGAINST II is twenty-five miles from
Norfolk. \ twenty-inch main for this
distance would cost at least $500 per
foot. making Il cost of S4aS 900 for The
Al, -
excess OF this amount. to say nothing
about pumping. machinery. houses. etc
Whlie HanG-Well system of eight or ten
million gallons capacity per day would
hoi cost more than half ~ that amount
ana bv utilizing the present pumping
machinery the amount would be COM
naraiivelv small | would like very
much 10 see the analysis of North
west river water placed by the side of
the Gang-weil water. Ii Mr.. Thoma.
would look on page 80. Of the CITY
DIRECTORY tBcrkleN Section) he can get
an idea of the quality of water ! am
talking about.
Now ] would like To ask Mr. Thomas
where the city of Norfolk got her sun
nlv of water during the long drought
last Near? was Informed by the super
int"ndent and the engineer that owing
10 strict economy they got their pump
ing CAPACITY down to three million gal.
Ions he: day. Now a conservative cs.
innate OF The storage capacity OF Lakes
). aWSnn and s.. - Is only iS0.00DUlJ
gallons ana il .1ou will divide this
amount by 800 900 yuu win INA that IL
the first sixty days after the COM
mcncement OF that drought that Lakes
Lawson and Smith would have boon
uumpcd entirely dry if there was no in
let at all OF course. Lake Bradford
IS entitled 10 credit Of one million
~ .tsaN a
months of this drought. still leaving a
deficit OF 2iI.j00O00 gallons 10 be had
from some source.
would also like 10 ask Mr. Thomas
where THIS deficit came from? As this
mount was actually pumped IL he is
all" TO answer this question. the great
mystery referred To by him will lie at
once solved AS TO this invisible rescr-
vOiT. Then. again. il must he rcmcu-
hcrcG that Northwest river came nearer
going dry last wear without any artili-
cial draft from il than Lakes Lawson
ana Smith cld without any visible in
let with draft from them OF . o. 500
gallons daily. FOR one hundred and
twenty DAYS during the drought. have
great confidence as 10 the amount of
water that can be had from Lakes
lawson and Smith. | watched them
Thomas knew as we'll where their sup
nlv came from rs | do. ! am sure lie
could never say anything about North
N'Si river water. nor any other open
Suuplv.
have nothing to say about the artc-
san well any more than 10 wish all
concerned the utmost success. Without
infringing upon mure of Your valuable
time and space Will close for the pres
cnt. Yours respectfully
CHARLES BLIVEN.
T. S-li Mr. Thomas tbeing an cx-
merit analvsD has any further doubts a.
10 tho nnnlitN of This Nntnr ,.n,,ll l.