Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-10-05
WATER BOARD STATEMENT.
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it has been built upon steep side hill, in SOM
! places where there have been slides and whcr'
there must be again. In order 10 keep the wa
ter running in this line, it would be necessary
/ 10 have some one 60 over the line nearly every
! day 10 keep the leaves raked from the racks II
summer and the anchor ice and leaves in win
| ter, For II the water should cease 10 run any
! length of time in winter IL must certainly irecz,
rs the piping is not buried a greater part Of the
way more than two feet deeg. This pipe lint
cmpties into the upper end Of Pleasant Valley
and Is l2lnch pipe. The thickness OF the
1 same Is sixteenth Of an inch.
Several members Of the water board and
/ leading business men have also been w and
looked over the Pleasant Valley system within
the last few days and ind that practically the
only water coming from Pleasant Valley is from
a very large swamp between the Oliver Carpenter
place and Dr Cages, Several bitches have been
dug in this swamp in different directions 10
drain the water into the Pleasant VALLEY stream.
From the swamp all the way 10 the Pleasant
Valley reservoir, the stream runs more or less
through a composition ot muck and the stream
has muck bottom. and not only this, but the
stream runs all the way through open pasture
where cattle and horses are allowed to tramp
back and forth through the brook, and any one
knows that they do this quite extensively on a
hot, dry day, And the dag that the members
were O.! there evidences were plenty that cattle
had been trlmping In the reservoir itself with.
in - or IL feet Of the intaking pipe. Mr.,
Irowcll has made no provisions in regard to
this. II any one doubts these statements, the
water board would be more than delighted to
have thpM gD up ana LOOK for themselves.
Members of the board have taken measure
ments every day for long time on the lialla-
day Brook system and also on the sunset Lake
system. The Halliday Brook system has been
running on IN average about three times as
much water as Tho Sunset Lake system.
On the 18th Of september, when these streams
were both measured by tan different business
men of Brattlchoro, the Sunset Lake system was
yraI U.Ut % hi
would last the village of Brattleboro using one
line Of hose one inch and an eighth nozzle, uu'
der 50 pound pressure, fifteen hours In other
words she whole amount Of water running
would not supply one line Of hose. The Halh'
day Brook system at the same time, was run.
ming 5000 gllons, or exactly three times as
much
Mr. Crowd has stated to the water board that
the poop, OF Brattloboro Use 100000 gallons
Of water in "a hours Figuring on this basis,
he would have TO pump 264 900 gallons from
West River while, at the same time, with the
Halliday Brook system, We would have 100000
gallons running 10 waste. These figures illus
tratc that the Halliday Brook is led almost IN
tiroly by springs and therefore does not dry up
Mr. Crowcll will tell YOU and it has been
so stated in the paper that it the water board
reservoir he would have had plenty Of water
Now, as a matter of fact, since the first Of
July. when he was ready 60 begin on his res
cryuir. II has been impossible for him to get his
with water and It has been constantly lowering
until be was Obliged 10 start his pump on West
River. Perhaps, II this reservoir had been put
in last winter, So as to catch the spring thaws
and rains, we would have had water enough TO
last through the summer, but DO the people Of
the village Of Brattlchoro want to drink in
August and September water that has been /
stored since last March and April in an open
reservoir with the surroundings there are in /
Pleasant Valley? II they were Obliged 10 do
this we are afraid there would be some hard !
kicks coming But they are not
For the water Of Halliday Brook. no one has |
raised objection as to its purity. The water
board know what they can but in the Halliday
system for and they do not feel that the vii |
l5ga can afford 10 Inv the Sunset Lake and
Pleasant VALLEY system for three reasons: First
Inc onaIity ~ the water has never been shown
10 be- as good as that Of the Halliday Brook
and Mr. Croweu himself does not claim it is
,mt sIt II l. niI right for village prrposps sec
,nd tbe s,nri, NJ water dtrinp The dry time
,,bor we nna5 IL tho rnost is only onet third as
orpr os tbaf from Halliday Brook; third, if
ye own his system. we have got to nut in a
,,r,,, 5a,, M S,nsot Ialn and There will he an
,,tr9 cynopsn az 1,oLinc ofter and maintaining
i,o 5an,. which ara situated ali the way from
ivo IN IN miles from BrattIeboro This can
,nt he considerod and the nronIc could not af.
',rd ., taLo tho sunset ate system and main.
i tb san,o II II wore givon In them as
,rnsont and tba oTsIitv 81 tba water was all
ight and tho only grounds on which this could
,s nnrcbased world bs 10 do away with CONNIE
ition, which the water board thinks would not
~ ,. nytnr; rIass Mr. Crnyvpll secured
'ot,or 'olass Of water
No,. ,rbot hos Mr. Croveu ont IN orbitrate2
Mar, ara ,,or, ,ov, nines in the Village of
lobaro tbat aro ~ tbe sizo rennired 10 con