Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-26

an estimate of the probable cost of in
stalling system which will supply the
village from them. The estimate of the
cost of introducing the water from Little
Notch is as follows:
S miles inch cast iron pipe, nj GO cents
/ per foot, S25 3il
$500 cubic yards rock excavation, mt
/ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. ...... $3.50
30 inch gates and boxes. ut SIS OO.... a5t
Special castings. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100
Air valves. ........... ....... 200
Intake OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50
S3j,o9i
Land and water damages ............... 5000
A G-inch pipe from this source will
discharge into reservoir on Chapman
hill 402 900 gallons every II hours.
North Branch gave a measured flow of
2.020,000 gallons per day. The location
of the brook, however, is such that a
pipe could be laid to it only with extreme
difficulty and at great expense. It
would be necessary to fix the intake near
the bridge where the road from the
North Branch to RiptOn Hollow crosses
the stream. TO take the water from
point farther down the stream would in
volve the use of large pipe because of
the resulting loss of head. An examina-
ton of the stream will make the difficult
ties evident. Samples of the water were
taken Oct. 10, and are at the time of
writing in course of meteorological eX-
animation. Nothing has so far devel-
oped in the cultures to indicate that this
supply ia not fully as good in quality as
that of the South Branch.
The estimate of cost of obtaining the
water from this source is as follows;
! miles G.inch pipe ut GO cents per foot,
laid. s32,2O0
3 miles inch pipe, at - cents pc. foot,
lalu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ............... l200O
$500 yards rock excavation, at s3.j0.... $3.50
30Gnch valves ana boxes, N $500 .... $50
Special castings ............... ........ 100
Air NalVcs...... see. ............'...... 200
Intake OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50
si745o
Land and water damages. ,........ 5000
A G-inch pipe from this source will
discharge 403, POO gallons every ~ hours.
With regard to the South Branch of
Middlebury River, the supply Is I'M
doubtedly sufficient. The chemical and
meteorological examination give the
following results:
Samples taken Sept. IS from East
Middlebury River at East Middlebury at
the upper end of the Upper mill pond
yield 100 bacteria per cubic centimeter in
the sample sent to Burlington and 30
per cubic centimcter in that examined at
the college; no generation of gas in
Smiths solution; BacHlUs coli coWm1DiS
not present
The results do not show presence of
sewage in this water. The water in this
stream is somewhat discolored, probably
through sawdust which the water car
ries. The meteorological character of
this water is such as TO make it satsfac.
tory for our village supply and to give it
rank second to that of the Little Notch
streams and much higher than that of
Otter Creek. Exactly how great the de-
gree of pollution of East Middlebury river
by the drainage of Ripton may be under
other conditions than those existing
when our samples were taken, can only
be decided by further examinations of
this stream from time to time. On Oct.
- samples were again taken in this
stream at the Upper mill pond and
further up stream at the big Bend
about mile below Ripton. Report can
not vet be given on these samples.
The cost of a system to use water from
this source would not differ materially
from that going to the North Branch.
The intake must be above the so called
/ Big Bend in order to get the necessary
head. If it is placed nearer East Middle
bury for the sake of shortening the dis
lance. the diminished head will require a
larger pipe to deliver given number of
gallons per day.
There remains one further source of
supply which the committee was asked
to investigate, namely Otter Creek.
This must be considered first of all from
the standpoint of its fitness for use.
In discharge of his duty, our health
officer. DR.. Noble has, from time to time
and at periods covering all seasons of the
year, had complete meteorological and
chemical analyses made of the water of
Otter Creek as it could be drawn from
any faucet in this village. Independent
examination of numerous samples has
also been made in connection with bac-
THEOLOGICAL work at the college. While
none of these analyses have resulted in
the isolation of the typhoid bacillus from
our supply, they have, nevertheless.
established that II has the chemical and
meteorological characters of sewage
water: that it contains the pathogenic
Bacillus coli cOmmuniS; that there is no
reason why it should not also contain
and propagate the more difficulty de-
tect typhoid bacillus; and that it is unfit
for domestic use.
The work of the committee has there
fore been to test the water of Otter Creek
at point further up stream than any
point at which our village sewage enters
1t. Samples of water were taken from
the "Swimming Pool" which yielded the
following results: 2S30 bacteria per