Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-10-26
LITTLE NOTCH WATER
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PIPING 1T
TO MlDDLEBURY.

River Water us Good, but Would Cost
More TO Pipe.
Following Is the report of theWater
Committee given at the meeting on Mon
day evening:
The committee appointed at the village
meeting of Sept. 81 to investigate the
available sources of water supply with
reference to the purity, sufliciency and
availability of the water. presents the
following report:
Statistics from one hundred and sixty
nine cities of the United States show an
average consumption of 20 gallons per
person per day. This average is much
exceeded during the extreme warm and
extreme cold months, the average daily
consumption rising as high as 125 gal
Ions a day for each person at such times.
If we consider the population of Middle
bury to be 1000, the average daily use of
water would be approximately 10000
gallons, and possible $50, 900 gallons per
day In hottest or coolest weather. If we
consider the possibility of fires and the
! increased demand upon the water supply
as the village grows. we must conclude
that a source to be sufficient and
system to be adequate must be capable
of ;a!.,uy,.,,,.. TO the village about 100000
gallons per dgv.
Your COMMITTED, mas inside baHteriOlogi.
cal and chemical examination, ana meas
ured the flow of the following sources
of supply: Little Notch, Roaring Brook,
Case Brook, North and South Branches,
Middlebury River, Hires Spring with
the springs in that nclghborhood, and
the brooks farther south. running
through Salisbury Plains.
From the measurement of quantity of
water available. Roaring Brook with
Case Brook, Hire Spring with its neigh
bors. and the brooks farther south are
out of con-i liberation.
Roaring Brook gave a measured flow
of los 300 gallons per day.
Case Brook gave measured flow of 49,
600 gallons per day. Even if these two
could be united they could not be de-
pended upon to furnish the amount
needed.
Hires Spring with the two other
springs IN that vicinity could only fur
niSh 100000 gallons per day, while the
amount flowing in the bro Ks at Sails
bury Plain, was considered too small TO
permit of measurement, and was at too
low an elevation to be available.
There are left then four sources of
supplV. Little Notch. North and South
Branches of Middlebury River and Otter
Creek. At Little Notch there are three
brooks flowing into II common reservoir
at Lathrop mill. One brook coming
from the north gave a measured flow of
207 200 gallons per day. a second brook
coming from the northeast gave meas
ured flow of lS7, 800 gallons per day, a
third brook from the southeast gave "A
measured flow of CSC, 100 gallons per day.
The total flow from the three brooks
was l.0S0,S00 gallons per ~ hours.
This met ,urement was made Sept. 81. at
the close of one of the drycSt seasons
within local memory.
There is hardly possibility that the
quan'i'V of water flowing at this source
can ever he much less than at the time
of measurement, and the quantity there
found was two and half times what
this village could ever be expected to re-
quired. Alta visit TO this source made
Oct. 10. fully double this quantity was
found.
There is emptyng into the third brook
mentioned a spring whose head il about
one-half mile farther up the mountain
side. and which alone gave measured
flow on Sept p Of pol 200 gallons per
day. This j. NOT the total flow of the
spring, as considerable fraction of the
water leaked by the weir used for meas
uring. Thi- spring alone would at that
time of drought have furnished all the
water that This village Is likely to use ex-
cept at time of a fire.
The committees also examined the
so-called Boiling Spring which is re-
ported to be three-quarters of mile
above Lathrop'- MILL This spring is
two miles from the mill and the amount
of water flowing from it is too small to
be considered. 1t would not fill one
inch pipe.
The result of the meteorological and
chemical examination of the water from
these sources of supply Is as follows:
LATIIROP SPRING. 30 bacteria to the
cubic ccntimeter in the sample sent to
Burlington, and II to the cubic cent?
meter in that examined at the college
no generation of gas in Smiths solution ;
does not contain Bacillus coli communiS.
These facts indicate that this water is
not contaminated by sewage and that its
use as the village supply would not sub
ject us to risk of typhoid fever and SINH
lar diseases, the bacterial causes of
which are distributed by, and propagate
in, sewage water.
The water of this spring is very clear
and without Objectionable taste or odor.
1t is slightly hard, but not enough so as
to be perceptible to the taste. 1t makes
suds readily and is used for laundry
purposes in Mr.. Lathrop's family. 1t is
the purest water examined. Complete
chemical analysis is now being made of a
: sample taken Oct. 10.