Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22
City Ordinance.

| An ordinance to provide for the construction
| maintenance and operation of system OF
| water works in the city OF Grand Rapids Wood
| county, Wisconsin.
The Common Council of the City of Or nd
Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin, do ordain az
| follows:
| SECTION l. That permission and authority
| are hereby granted to and vested in franklin j
Wood hereinafter called the grautee) his
| associates and aSsigns, to establish, construct
maintain end operate a system of water works
| in the city of Grand Rapids. Wood county.
| Wisconsin, according to the plans and specii-
| cations hereinafter described, and for that
purpose the grantee, his associates and assigns
are 3reby granted permission to use the streets
alleys, roads, sidewalks. bridges, public parks
and public places within the corporate limits
| of said city for the purpose of placing, re-
| placing, taking up, repairing and connecting
water mains hydrants, pipes and valves for the
| franchises hereby granted, if accepted ana
acted upon as hereinafter prescribed. Shall be
vested III the grantee his associates and assigns
| for period OF thirty years from and after the
| legal passage and publication of this ordinance,
rs hereinafter directed
SECTION =. That the water to be used in said
water works system sh III be obtnned from
natural springs, but for the purpose of
supplying water in case of emergency an intake
| shall be CONSTRUCTED to connect with the
| Wisconsin river, as shown on the plans herein
| after described The water so furnished shall
| be good table water suitable for domesic
and commercial uses. The pumping station
| shall be substantial brick building of neat
archltectural deSl'n In said pumping station
| the grantee shall place at least one tubular
| steel boiler sixty inches in diameter and six
| teen feet in length capable of developing
eighty horse power The steel out of which
said boiler is constructed shall be open heart
dange steel, having tensile strength of sky
thousand pounds per square inch The boiler
thus constructed shall be get upon suitable
| foundation and shall be equippei with feed
pump and heater of modern and approved
design There shall no lo6 rl,,
connected with said system two duplex pumps
of the Dean or WOTthington pattern, or some
other make equally good, having capacity of
seven hundred and fifty thousand 100000
gallons each every twenty-four hours The
pumps shall be equipped with lubric. tor
suages ana all proper appliances. The water
obtained from springs shall first be impounded
in reservoir whence it shall be pumped into +
standpIpe ito be located at some suitable
pOi"t within the corporate limits of said cityJ
which standplpe shall be one hundred feet in
helght and twelve feet in diameter set upon Il
masonry foundation. Said pipe shall be built
OF soft open hearth flange steel having q tensile
strength of sixty thousand pounds to the
square inch: The pipes and mains constituting
the distributing system of said water works
| shall be laid i'll trenches sufficiently deep to
afford at least six foot cover. and the said
system when completed shall include not less
than five miles of mains. All pipes and mains
snail De joined IN the most sk1llful manner.
At CONVENIENT places along said system shall be
erected not less than forty double dis barge
hre hydraTfs with four inch hub connect ions
ana two ana half inch h ,se connections
Sald Migrants shall be of standard make.
modern and frost proof The entire system
snail be IN strict compliance with the plans
and specifications now on file in the office of
the clerk OF the city of Grand Rapids.
SECTION That said water works shall be
fully completed and ready to be finally tested
Wltn!n len months fom the date of the
pubncatlon OF this ordinance as hereinafter
provided, and the grantee shall forfeit to the
city Ten Dollars per day for each day after said
perlod OF nine months that the plaut is not
completed until it is fully completed; but if
tne gran,ee, ms associates and assigns, are
prevented by injunction or by strike from
Worklng upon said plant, then the period
curing winch said injunction IS operative, or
sald strl IKE shall exist, shall not be counted II
par! OF the period of nine months here1nbetOre
limited. The grantee shall furnish to the city
d good ana sufficient bond in the penal sum of
len Thousand Dollars, 10000 conditioned for
me complexion OF said water works system in
ordinance, and to hold the city harmless from
all damages by reason of the constructing OF
said water works
SECTION 4. That the grantee, his associates
ana assigns, snail not unreasonaDlY oostruct
any of the streets, roads, alleys. sidewalks,
orldses' parks, public grounds or public pl ices
IN SAID city IN constructing said water works, or
IN placing, replacing taking up or repairing
main. hydranls or valves, or other devices for
the service of water and after using said streets
roads, alleys. sidewalks, bridges, parks, public
grounds ana public places for the purposes
aforesaid, the grautee his associates and assigns
shall restore the same to their former condltl.,n
as PROVIDED IN the specItCatlOns now ON file
with thee clerk The grantee, his associates
ana assigns Shall hold the city harmless on
account OF his or their neg .igence or the negh-
gence OF his or their agents in the construction
OF SAID works Danger lights shall be Kept
burning at night along the line OF all excava-
tlons. ana temporary barTicades shaII De erec'ed
at the ends OF all trenches and at all streets and
alleys where they cross such excavations
SECTION D: Laborers living i'll Grand Rapids
snaI De given Preference by me c0ntractor
"nen eilpioflng men, except " va sKlIied ~ Dor
is required. but the grantee shall not be required
to employ resident labor if any combination or
strike is organized to raise the wages above the
average price.
SECIiG on o. As soon as said system OF water
works mas been lulIv completed, the city
engineer shall Iepor( to the common council of
Grand Rapids and thereupOn tnal test OF the
capacity OF SAID works shall be made Ii At such
TEST lHe saIu water works system snali, without
brea king or starting sustain static test nf one
hundred and twenty hounds per square inch
throughout SAID system and II SAID water Work s
snail throw nree simultaneous streams on Inc
city through one hundred f ct OF two and one
hal1 lncn nose, with one inch ring noZzle 10
perpendicular height OF cigh' feet IN stlII air,
and II the water Works shall III all respects
CONFORM 10 LHls Ordinance, me common Gouucli
shall approve and accent said water works, ana
a certificate 10 that eject. signed by the mayor
and city clerk. under the corporate seal OF the
CITY shall be delivered TO the grantee, his
associates and assigns
SECTION q. IN Consideration OF the c0nstruc-
ton and maintenance of water works fol public
hydrdnts, as herein enumerated, and III further
consideration OF the mutual covenants ana
asIeeinell.s, VI thls ordinance, the CITY Oh ufaEu
Rapids agrees to rent and hereby does rent from
the grantee, his associates and assigns, for the
period OF thirty Years and so long as water shall
pc 1urnlsned Dy him or them IN accoroance