Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-10
9. It is practically unproductive

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main?
4 A. Yes. sir. it is.
@. For the whole four miles betwee
IThompson Brook station and until 70
tget into the settled streets of Bruins
wick Is the same thing practically true
/ a. Very few services along there.
think there is one service at Merry
llneeting Park; comparatively few scrv
ices
Mr. Eaker: Brother. Thompson. yo'
Isaid that you were going to amend you
bill Where did you propose in you
Iamended bill TO stop your line on tn,
Bath end
| Air. thompson: We have not f0rmu
lated any amendment. but we intended
70 relinquish from the present bill th'
lThompson Brook and be excluded from
taking water from any tributary e
| that brook. We are willing TO take i
down to the brook
Mr.. Baker: Run the pipe down t
the brook?
Mr.. Thompson: Yes sir.
Mr.. Baker: Leaving the Thompson
Brook
MIR. thompson: Outside of our bill.
Mr.. Wing AS I understand from
| that. that would leave the Thompson
Brook in case of emergency or any
damage from the Nequasset lake for a
Isupply to Bath?
Mr.. Thompson: Yes sir
Mr.. Baker: And would cut it off en-
tiraly from any supply to Brunswick?
Mr.. Thompson: Yes sir; we would
cut off about four miles of pipe
Mr.. Baker And the only water
supply that would be left in your sys-
tenn would be the Androscoggin river
which has been discarded for many
years?
Mr.. Thompson: No.
Mr.. Baker: j mean the only attached
water supply.
Mr.. Thompson: The only existing
pumping station would be where they
could take it from the water. or from
the brook that enters the river at that
point.
Mr.. Baker And the brook you don't
claim has any adequacy for that pur-
pose2
Mr.. Thompson: Oh, yes; ! think it
did so at one time.
Mr.. Baker, So that the system as
you propose by your amended bill when
it is formulated will be without any
Androscoggin river and the brook
which YOU claim to be near the
Androscoggin river?
Mr.. Thompson: Yes, without any
pumping station.
Mr. Drew: Which way was this
built, from Bath or from Brunswick?
Mir. Baker: Towards Bath.
Mr. Drew: Then if you cut it off
there it would leave the original Bath
system as it was?
Mr.. Baker: Yes sir.
Mr. Drew: Is this supply here
sufficient for Bath alone, this Thomp-
son Brook?
Mr.. Thompson: That is all the one
they had for several years.
Mr.. Drew: l asked that question of
the witness.
Witness: I think you had better ask
who is more familiar with that
matter than / am.
Mr.. Baker: / understand the fact to
be that this Thompson Brook supply
was originally started for Bath under
the advice of engineers of repute-Mr.
Shedd was a well known engineer at
that time, and I believe he is now dead
that the Thompson Brook supply
would supply city of 10000 inhabi-
tan.s. And they found afterwards that
It was entirely inadequate and was not
sufficient for either Brunswick or Bath,
and they therefore went to Nequasset.
Mr.. Drew: You would have had TO
so somewhere anyway?
Mr.. Baker Yes sir.
Mr.. Drew; / would like to ask about
the gates. Where are the gates?
Witness: There are three gates so
that you can shut off one here and an
other one there. Qndicating)
Mr.. Thompson: l will ask you what
is the size of the main running through
Lincoln street in Brunswick?
A. ] can't tell you by this plan, but
! can tell you by another one.
O. Are there any two inch mains in
Brunswick
A. Yes sir, quite a number.