The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-11-19
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Hill Reservoir company and Sunset Lake
| Water company which he understands
have been absorbed by the Brattleboro
Water Works company. The orator be-
! leves that it will require 100000 gal
Ions Of water to fill the new Pleasant val i,
ley reservoir and that several weeks VIII
be required to collect that amount OF wa
| ter and that when the reservoir has been
once filed and the water is taken IRON IL
in l6-inch pipe the supply of water Tor
his mill will be inadequate. The orator
further AYERS that diverting the water
from Milestone brook will materially at,
feet the water supply at his dam and mil
and injure the business of his mill, cause
additional expense and depreciation, ana
eventually prevent any water from flowing
down Milestone brook, which would
cause him irreparable injury.
The orator AYERS that he has been IN
formed that the defendant Crowell IN
tends to store water in Pleasant Valley
reservoir and in so doing to entirely divert
the waters of Milestone brook from the
orators mill. The orator AYERS that he
has called upon Mr. Crowell to desist from
using the water of Pleasant Valley brook
but that the defendant insists upon his
right to construct such a dam as has been
constructed. The orator AYERS that since
Sept !, 1907, the natural flow of water IN
Pleasant Valley brook has been diverted
and that on such account his grlst mill
and wood working establishment have
been idle for long periods of time. The
orator AYERS that he cannot receive ade-
quate relief or damage except in a court
of equity and prays that an injunction be
issued.
Judge Hall granted the restraining order
several days ago which enjoins the de-
PENDANTS from lessening or dlverting IN
any way the natural flow of water in Pleas
ant valley or Meadow brook, as it flowed
prior to the taking of any water theretroln
by the defendants, or from doing anything
to lessen and reduce the natural flow OF
water into Milestone brook or from inter
fering in any way with the rights OF the
orator in the water of said brook during
the tendency of the proceedings before the
court.
At the same time as Judge Hall issued
the restraining order prayed for by MIR.
Knight he made exactly the same order
in reply to the bill of complaint filed by
Frank O. Carpenter of Brattleboro, who
AYERS that by reason of the operations OF
the same defendants named in Mr..
knights bill of complaint he has suffered
wrongs and grievances. Following a de-
scription of hundred-acre tract lying ad-
jacent to and upon Pleasant valley or
Meadow brook upon which the orator al
leges there are 5000 feet of timber ready
to be cut he AYERS that he intends to uti-
ize a water power upon the brook running
through his property for the purpose OF
saving and otherwise putting such timber
into shape for market. MIR. Carpenter
AYERS that the injunction secured by Mr.
Ninton against the Chestnut Hill Reser-
voir company is perpetual. He further
AYERS that while the Pleasant Valley res
ervoir is filling his water power will be
deprecated and that eventually the opera
lions of the defendant Crowell will pre-
vent any water from flowing through the
lands of the orator. He alleges that the
defendants spillway at the Pleasant Val
ley dam is so situated as to cause the
waste water from the reservoir to flow
upon the orators land, The orator fears
that water so thrown upon his land will
greatly injure it by cutting new channel
and doing other and great damage to his
property In addition to praying that
the defendant be restrained in the same
manner as prayed for by the orator,
Knight, Mr.. Carpenter asks that the de-
PENDANT be enjoined from constructing a
spillway.