Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-01-26
CROWELL'S PROPOSITIONS
THREE OFFERS HE MADE TO THE
WATER BOARD LAST WEEK.
Two Systems Completed to Proposed
Reservoir on Atkinson Farm Tor
$500, ,oo0-other Propositions Would
Cost Village s275,Ooo and ss45,ooo.

Cost Village s275,00o and s345,ooo.
ON account of the fact that some of
the figures made by George 4. Crowell
to the village water board last week
Monday evening have been made pub
lie. presumably by some member of the
board itself. Mr. Crowell has decided
to make public the full text OF the
three propositions he made the board
They are as follows:
Proposition No. /.
Chestnut Hill system complete, with
Sunset Lake system completed TO pro-
posed reservoir on Atkinson farm. We
will sell to the village the entire sys'
tenn of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir com
many. and include Herewith the en-
tire property that the Sunset Lake Wa
ter company now las, which Is as FOL
lows: A 16-ineh pipe line complete
from the main of the Chestnut Hull
Reservoir company near the house or
Samuel Sargent TO the point OF the
proposed reservoir on the Atkinson
farm in Pleasant Valley; (this IS all
complete except the laying of the pipe
on the upper portion of the line, the
ditch is all dug and the pipe on the
ground). together with an intake at
said point on the Atkinson farm, when
shall be a wing dam of sufficient height
and strength to turn the water OF sald
Pleasant Valley brook from said brook
into gate house at said intake, TO
connect with a gate house when shail
be of masonry and concrete, by
feet in size, with proper screen ana
gates. with a connection for lO-ineh
pine, with proper valves and gates
therefor The territory flowed by said
intake or wing dam shall be cleared OF
olI vegetable matter This proposition
includes. too. the protection OF said
Pleasant Valley brook from contamina-
tion from the Oliver Carpenter place,
which is practically completed, but
shall be completed to the requirements
Of the state board of health.
This proposition includes the right 70
take ail the water that will now
through a pipe Il inches in diameter at
ouy head from a point on Stiekney
brook. so feet below the junction oil
said brook and the Hack Townshend
brook SO called. and the right to lay
spch nine according to the survey made
bv Engineer Davis, from thence 70 tne
head of Pleasant Valley; also the rlght
Il raise and lower Marlboro North
nond ar Sunset lake four feet. 10 wit.
"a raise 1t TO point as high as the t9p
of the granite post marked with the
letter @ on the north side thereon near
the outlet of said pond. and TO lower II
~ noipt four feet below the top OF
said post. This proposition also IN
cIrdes o S00 feet of steel pipe, u inches
II diameter, opposite the railroad track
a, tho nuarrv mt West Dummerston, be-
inc sufficient pipe for the pipe nne
from sticknev brook TO Pleasant var
Iev This includes on the Atkinson
Form ali the land that win be necessary
for the construction OF a dam OF sum
eient height and length to make res
ervoir of 60,000,00O gallons and all the
land 70 be flowed by said reservoir with
snitable and sufficient rights to lay the
nine thereto. and to enter upon 10 re-
nair and rebuild the same.
For the foregoing property the VII
! I.ge shall cancel its debt against the
said Chestnut Hill Reservoir company
ON the Vernon street pipe line, shall as
snme the $4,000 mortgage bonds on
the property of the Chestnut Hill Res,
ervoir company, interest having been
naid thereon TO Jan. 1st. 1906, and shall
nav 10 said Crowell and said companies
mon the delivery of title deeds, me
sum of $4,000. The Chestnut nm
Reservoir company is turned over SUP
iect to the rights which certain parties
claim to shores of water from the ola
Hines aqueduct, so called.