Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-11-29
WESTERLY WOULD HELP NORWICH
From Abundant Water SupplyHas So Wells With Total
Storage of 100000 Gallons-$5,500 Loss Through
Fire and Water Damage in Mrs. Otis Chapman's
Building-Thomas Johnson Jailed Fox Chicken
Stealing.

The driven we'll water system of
Westerly. which has been in operation
twenty-four years, has been a success
from the start. At no time, even dur
ing the present drought, has there been
perceptib1e diminuition of the supply,
while ANALYSIS has proven the water 10
be the purest obtainable. There is
plenty for commercial, fire and other
purposes, and its use is unStlnted,
provided consumers pay for the water
used The system is kept up to the
highest standard by Supt. Thomas NC
Kenzie under the direction of the board
of water commissioners composed or
Louis w. Arnold, John j. carney ana
Tristan d. Babcock.
In 1896 the town Of Westerly puf-
chased from the Westerly Water
Works company the water system OF
that time, the water coming from .Shu-
mock brook, in the town of North Ston-
ington. by gravity to the pumping sta
ton, where it was filtered and pumped
to the standpipe on Quarry Hill. That
same year contract was made with
a Boston firm to install a driven we'll
system capable of producing 1.G00,o00
gallons of water a day, to be located
near the White Rock road. Twenty
nine wells We're driven and an official
test showed an excess OF 117,420 gal
Ions. These wells are of wrought iron
pipe, two and half inches in diam
eter. Each we'll is provided with an
| Independent valve and properly con-
nected with a sixteen inch cast iron
pipe and q reserve chamber or sand
catcher is provided and connected with
the suction pipe at the pumping sta
ton.
The pump plungers are ten and one
quarter inches in diameter, with two
inch stroke. The displacements in both
water cylinders amount to 1894 gallons
| per revolution, 249,546 having been
made in the first official test Of q
hours duration thus. giving 3,4S7670
| gallons as measured by the revolution
| counter.
AT the conclusion of the test the
| water in the wells rose again to within
one foot of the original height IN h24t
an hour showing that there is an
abundance of water in the ground from
which the supply is drawn
| The pumping station is supplied
with TIVE one-million gallon vertical
! compound cendenSing pumpIng engines
boilers and appurtenances. When ~ Is
deemed advisable, the water can be
drawn from the standpipe to permit. a
| thorough cleansing, and during the
process pressure can be maintained py
direct pumping, and no consumer de-
| prived of water a single minute. The
villages of Pawcatuck, Wateh ttlH ana
Pleasant View are served from the
| Westerly system.
| In 1902 ten additional wells were
driven, and since then fourteen more
making a total of fifty=thre wells, ane
a new 2, 100000 gallon pumping engine
has been Installed A new steel ane
cement standpipe has just been com
pleted with a capacity of $4,000 gal
Ions, making a total water storage o.
/ 000, 600 gallons, which can be kept u
to that standard at all times
| The average depth of the wells is s.
feet into a gravel water-beartng STRAIT;
on top of bedrock, and the pFesen
CANA cjf1r Of fine n1aut ia / 100000 gal
Ions of water in "a hours. The net COS
of the water works to practically tn
present date is $395,421,e5, with an
nual rentals of $47,667.41 and d sink
ling fund of S163. 360.51.
| Should there be no Improvement i
the water conditions at Norwich, West
erly is ready to render assistance alonI
that line, Superintendent Nckenzt
stating Menday that he would Ike t.
send two or three carloads of pur4
water daily, which could be done witt
no detriment to the Westerly system