The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1902-07-17

One little realizes the magnitude OF the |
work at the new reservoir at Stafford |
Street unless personal visit to the same
Is made. Both at distance and near to,
the walls resemble large fertilization.
Whenscompleted the walls will be 10 feet
high, go feet wide at base and feet wide
at top. The inside slope will be of 1-2
to l and the outside to /. The inside
dimensions will be 155 feet long and 60
feet wide at the water surface. The
depth of the water will be 10 feet and the
capacity will be a million gallons. The
outlet will be 10-inch pipe, entering
about 10 feet south of the north west
corner, and will be condemned to an S-inch
pipe before entering the 8-inch main
about 100 feet from the outlet. The In
let will be an S-inch pipe about 100 feet
long, connecting with the present main
above the new reservoir. At present the
banks are completed for feet In height
and the interior is two-thirds excavated.
Of clay pounded, rolled and watered. A
3-foot puddle trench kept filled with wat
or is maintained around the top while the
banks are being raised. This takes the
who has charge of the work says that he
has never found any harder clay, and
much of 1t below three feet has to be
loosened by dynamite before 1t is re-
moved. The hardness of the clay will
save concreting the same and give a
much better bottom. The inside bank,
to the water line, Is to be paved with
large and the bottom with small stones.
No ledge has been encountered, but many
Large boulders have had to be blasted,
giving plenty of rock for the paving.
There are about 30 men employed, with
two double teams, single team and a
yoke Of oxen. The pay roll amounts to
about $65 day. OF the men employed,
IS are Italians, the rest are local help.
Five nationalities are represented In the
force. The reservoir is situated on a
knoll about seven or eight hundred feet
west of the house of Mrs. Marcy of whom
the land was bought. The walls will run
entirely around the reservoir and the
same being on knoll there will be NO
possible chance of surface drainage or re.
fuse getting into the same. The location
could not be bettered. The banks will
be turfed on the outside and high picket
fence will be erected around on top. The
reservoir Is about mile from and 23(
feet above haymarket square. There Ii
no reason why this borough should moi
have In the future one of the best water
supplies, both for purity of water and fol
fire purposes. 1t will be so that either
the new reservoir or old supply can b'
used, or both. Without any water run
ming into the reservoir, when 1t is full, 4
would take twenty-four hours to empt,
with the S-inch pipe drawing water to 1T
full capacity. With the inlet of the 8-incl
pipe the supply should be inexhaustable
1t IL expected that the water for drink
ing purposes will be much improved al
the water is now confined In q pipe TO
four miles without chance of aeration
The work was started May Goth and 1t Il
expected that the same will be completed
the second or third week in August. T
p. Conroy Of Woburn, Mass, who ha
charge Of the work, has had much expert
ence In building water works In man,
parts Of the country. He has been In tn,
employ Of Mr.. Goodhue Of Springfield TO
the past twenty years, and CONSTRUCTED
the present borough system about flfteel
years ago.