Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-10
water Company. Communication.

ChtSe for twenty-five years
water Comuany,s Communication.
Ottumwa, Iowa, July 5, 1900.
To the water committee of the COM
mon council of the city of Ottumwa:
After having looked over the ground
and considered the situation, including
the suggestions made and views ex-
pressed by various members of your
honorable body, beg to state that I
will present to the meeting of the
board of directors Of the City Water
Supply company, which is called to be
held at my office on Wednesday next,
July II, the following suggestions,
namely:
That If reasonable and just fran
chise be granted to our corporation
for the term of twenty-five years,
then:
1. Provision shall be made for the
construction, either by the City Wat
er Supply company or a subordinate
company organized for that purpose,
of an intake pumping house, and new
suitable supply main, the mouth of
the intake to be situated at least four
hundred (400). feet above Harrow's
branch; the supply pipe to run to the
company's present pumping station on
Wapello street by such route as the
company may select, the city council
to grant the company the easement
and right to locate and maintain
such supply pipe in such streets, al
leys, or public grounds on the route
selected, as come within the juris-
diction of the city or city council
2. For the purpose of operating
the pump to be located at the intake,
a franchise is to be granted to the
company to erect, maintain, use, and
operate upon any streets, alleys, or
public places in control of the city,
poles, wires and appurtenances for
the transmission of electric power.
8. The company to provide two
additional Jewel filters in it's filter
house, and may, at its option, con-
! struct a settling basin or basins at
such place or places as it may find
convenient.
4. The company to construct, eth
er on the site Of the present reser-
voir. on Court street, or on such 9TH
er suitable site as it's engineers may
select, suitable stand pipe.
S. The company to install thirty
six inch triple nozzle hydrants, plac-
ing these hydrants at such points on
the mains in the city limits as the
council may from time to time deter
mine.
6. The city to confer upon the cor
poration and the subsidiary company
formed to construct the line from the
intake to the present pumping sta
ton, the power of eminent domain, to
be exercised within it's limits, as pro-
yided by section 722 of the Code of
Iowa.
z. The franchise to contain rea-
, sonable and just provisions, recog-
nizing the different requirements and
different attitudes of the city binding
the company to furnish, on demand,
good and sufficient supply of water
for fire purposes.
8. The company to make no
charge to new consumers for laying
the service pipe to the curb from the
company's mains.
8. The improvements above indi-
Gated to be undertaken by or before
April /, 1901, and completed within
five years from the first day of Sep
tember. 1900, the intake to be first
begun and completed in the order
determined by the company.
10. All extensions of mains shall
be along such streets or alleys as the
+ council may hereafter designate, and
for every 400 feet of main so ordered
the city shall locate and pay the rem
tai for one hydrant.
IL. The franchise to contain pro-
visions regulating the rental price Of
hydrants and the charges to CON
sumers as will enable the company
to earn not less than its present reY-