New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-03
FOUND WATER POLLUTED.
DOUGHERTY TO WARD
OFF DANGER FROM PONDS sup
PLYING BROOKLYN

AS a result of the examination of Baisleys
and Remsen's ponds. Long Island. on Frs-
day and Saturday of last week by Commits
sioner Dougherty. Deputy Commissioners Le
Long and Van Iderstine and several enginee}z
from the department, steps will Immediately
be taken to purify the water supply from thess
sources. According to the report OF one OF tfs
engineers. the water is contaminated and po~
luted. and likely to become infected with choleEa
and typhoid germs with the advent OF warrn 8
weather The engineers report says:
BsIseys Pond Is full of Live mater DsTn
The larger ones clearly visible 10 the naked 81
are Cne-sixteenth of inch in size, and some a
tributary 6rooks@Beaver Brook and Phrass4
Brook and three other brooks-at the upper
be nothing short OF open sewers These brook
dogs nave found their way into these BROOKS ast
Rave been told by one of the engineers Thef
be treated very suspiciousIy as it may suddes
become infected with typhoid or cholera gerl
such deadly Injected Water te should be distri5us
throughout The city the calamity would be am
TEN looks beautifully clean and clear, but only
chemical and especially meteorological fnvesuf
ton inspire confidence in this system sho
urge that an independent analysis be ordered q
furious fauna be discovered. the population
BI9okiyn must be advised at once to drink
water only a1ter II mas been Wen 6olled Tor
hour and left to cool off. All these brooks &C
r.
water supply should be fenced in cleaned out II
the property adjoining. from which impurities
that portion of the brook acting as drainage ST n
De euI OUT oy a separate Gralnage leading II
large and small dogs. and many empty cartrid =
indicating that the pond is used a hunt
wounded or dead game falling into the water
cecay1ng there At the mouths OF the brooks II
are swamps. at the corners of which very Z
looking dirty masses lying. ready 70 breed
fecrion with the approach or warmer weather.
Deputy Commissioner De Long says the
gineers report is not nearly strong enough
took a photograph of dead dog in the bro
connecting Remsens with Baisley's Pond
Friday. He found a large hotel emptying
sewage into the brook and crowd Of color
children bathing in one of the little ponds.
says that Baisley's and Remsen's ponds Ia
not been cleansed for eight years, and tr
although there are numerous watchmen
cleaners on the payrolls of the department.
ponds are not properly examined MIR. De l.
took a photograph of the Springfield dump
the edge Of the pond In this dump he
mattresses, old carpets tin cans and worn
bedsteads. A little brook running through
centre of this mass emptied into the po {
Baisley's Pond gives daily supply to the
of 5.G000O0 gallons and Remsen's Pq
100000. This water mixes with the regd
supply and is distributed all over BroOklI
Mr.. De Long declares that the employees
Long Island were tipped off, when COmu4 {
sioner DOugherty planned his trip for Saturd g.
They were not acquainted with the fact that -
De Long was going down on Friday. howeTs
and The deputy commissioner found them clea
ing things up for the reception of the Comm E
sioner's party.
ION Friday I dam at the mouths 4
any of the small. dirty brooks that empty 4
the pond. but Saturday there was d
before the dirtiest one he said Il asked Mr..
Varona when this dam lad been placed IN n
ton and he told it had been in pOSitionF
a long time. / called another emplOye and as &
him the same question He informed me
dam was constructed the night before Mr.. 4 :
Varona is chief engineer of the departing 5
and is responsible for the condition OF Sa4
ponds. 1t is up to him. H.
Commissioner DCugherty said he found Il
ponds and streams in an unclean condition, q =
that the patrol system extremely poor. 1
intends TO institute a radical change in t. s
system