The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-12
ALOT OF SPOILED WATER
Superintendent Carroll Doesn't
Know What to Do With It.
WILL VISIT ANACONDA
He Win Investigate Conditions at the
New Observation-Disclosures Would
Do No Good-Thinks 1t Must
Be in the Sources.

superintendent Carroll OF the Butte
City Water company is going to visit the
new reservoir Of the Anaconda Water
company next week to see what the con-
ditions are. what likelihood Of the water
spelling Is and for such other infor-
nation as may be CLEANED. Mr.. Carroll
has a lot Of spoiled water on his hands.
He has been trying for years to i'm
prove Ii, and has about reached his
last resort. He has done all he can
think OF and Is now waiting to see what
results will attend the new Anaconda
reservoir. This reservoir is constructed
on the same general principles as the
Butte reservoir.
They are storing water over there"
aid Mr.. Carroll yesterday, and y shall
go Overt In q few days TO see with what re-
suits. II their water remains all right
/ shall have grounds for hoping that
our reservoir can be made all right too
and shall keep at work on the reservoir.
If the water IN the Anaconda reservoir
spoils, then / shall be forced to con-
clude that II h impossible TO store water
and have IL good at an altitude of 5000
feet"
You have a wrong impression.
nOuBu CbHAtllutu MT. tdIIOils as 10
my saying that i believed the water
this year would be good. / did not say
that, and did not believe II, but l a
hoped ii would When the mayor II
i visited the reservoir and he expressed
himself by saying that he believed the
water would be all right this summer.
i saved myself by saying that l did
not quite like the looks of the water. |
had seen that look before, and 1 expect
ed what was coming. l have never told
the board of directors hat ] believed
the water would be good. After we had
made the change l suggested that /
thought the experiment worth trying.
That water spoiled on us In two days
continued Mr.. Carroll. with a show Of
affectionate regret toward the water
hat one would scarce expect to see
manifested toward even a mint toddy.
Il was out to the reservoir" ne said,
two days before the bad water came
to Butte. then saw that 1t was all
up. I saw 1t was beginning to spoil,
bu Thought II would take ten days
to get good and spoiled. Instead of that
1t was bad In two days time. Other
wise 1 would have been prepared and
there would not have been any bad
water brought to Butte"
Mr.. Carroll was asked whether the
water could not be filtered at the reser-
voir. He said II would do no good.
E1lterinR would cnange the coloT, out
not the taste or SMELL. In regard 10
making the body and sides of asphalt,
Mr.. Carroll said that already he eser-
voir has a bottom and sides Of sand and
asphalt could be no better.
1--WE TOOK yards of stuff, vegetable
matter, etc, from the reservoir this
spring. said Mr.. Carroll, "and there is
not a bit OF vegetable matter in " or
near II. / know of nothing else that can
be done. / begin to believe the trouble
Il not in the reservoir at all. but is In
the water itself or its sources. Even
the water I'm the new upper reservoir Is
now beginning to spoil, and that is
brand new, without a bit OF muck
There must be something wrong In the
local condition, but / cannot imagine
what Il Is. There is no life near tn
creeks except a few deer up in tbs
mountains. The water, coming as II
Toes from the very tops ~ the noun
tain.. surely ought to be good -,
Just now Butte is having splendid
water, the reservoirs having been tenn
pororily abandoned, so that the creel
water runs direct to the city. That vii
supply the city for several weeks yet.