Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-01-18
has been we'll and thoroughly done, and
the layman certainly sees no reason to
question 1t.

While the proof Of the pudding 10 In
the eating, and the test of water system
is what 1t does In actual service, 1t Ger.
tainly seems a. II the system 10 one
: which IL surpassed In few places of the
size of South Paris. The water In both
streams is good, and Cooper Spring
Brook, which will furnish full supply
through the greater part of the year,
carries the water from several particular
ly fine springs, and Is q stream OF OK
ceptional purity.
Two concrete dams, one on Cooper
Spring Brook and the other on Stony
Brook, gather the supply, and each will
bold quite little water In storage. The
Stony Brook dam is fourteen feet In ex-
treme height, and flows the brook back
for q distance of about $50 feet. The
dam on the other brook Is not 80 high,
though It makes wider pond.
From each of these dams runs six
inch supply pipe, the two coming to
junction about quarter of a mile below
the dams, and q single six-inch pipe
runs from that point to the reservoir,
which is located on the south part of N.
NJ. Rowe's farm, west of Hooper's
Ledge. The length of this pipe, from
the Cooper Spring Brook dam to the res
ervoir, is 1915 feet, or approximately
2 6 miles, while the branch coming from
the Stony Brook dam into this is 1859
feet in length. There is fall of about
forty feet from the Cooper Spring Brook
dam to the reservoir, and the engineers
figured daily flow into the reservoir
through the six-inch supply pipe of
100000 gallons. Measurements of the
actual flow, since the water was turned
on, agree with these figures.
The reservoir is Of reinforced concrete,
circular in form, 80 feet in diameter in
side, and IA feet deep, of capacity Of
approximately 100000 gallons. When
complete, 1t will have q cover of re-
enforced concrete, about one-third of
which has already been constructed, and
the rest will be done after warm weather
comes.
From the reservoir q twelve-inch main
runs to Market Square, distance Of
1927 feet, or practically "A miles, going
by q nearly direct line to point just
above the Park Street bridge, where 1t
crosses the river, and thence up Park
Street. A six-inch pipe was also laid
from this through Porter Street to High
Street, 800 feet. Connections with the
Norway mains were made at two points
on High Street and in Market Square.
In addition to the reservoirs named the
village will also acquire the reservoir
built in 1908 by the Norway Water Com
pany, near James Clark's, about mile
from the village. This
reservoir is of earth paved with concrete
blocks, and holds million gallons. 1t
is few feet lower than the village res
ervoir and can readily be filled from it,
and will be useful as reserve ii for
nothing more. Altogether, as it now
stands, the system has storage capacity
of considerably over two and perhaps
three million gallons.
1t is true that some question the regn-
lar flow of the brooks furnishing suffi-
cisnt water throughout the year, and
this has been the principal cause of what
opposition to the system there has been;
but 1t is certainly true that there runs in
these brooks, in the course OF the year,
many times the amount of water which
the village will use, and If the daily
flow, with what storage capacity the sys-
tenn now has, is not sufficient to carry US
sharp drought, more storage
can be secured by additional
dams higher on either brook, at no enor-
nous expense.
The pipe. gates and fittings were pur-
chased directly by the committee, and
the entire work of construction was done
by Mr.. Scruton, under contract, except
the Stony Brook dam, which was con-
structed Independently. The reservoir
costs, when completed, $7,41S.00
Mr. Scruton sub-let the job of deliver
ing the pipe from the railroad along the
pipe line to W. B. Young Of South Paris.
The contract price for laying the pipe
was, for earth work, rs cents per foot for
the six.inch pipe, IS cents for the twelve
inch, and "a rs per cubic yard for rock
work. G. W. Bowker was inspector for
the committee throughout the job.
Except on the intervales and In the
sandy ground in and near the village, the
digging was full of stones, small and
large. The amount of rock work was
$40 0l2 cubic yards, costing $275S 30.
Mr.. Scruton has been paid under his con-
tract, SIS, 420 81, and ten per cent is held
back for the completion Of the contract,
30 that his full charge will be in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of 81 100000.
The amount of pipe used was just
about 500 tons, the price being s24 40
per ton, delivered at South Paris. Pipe
is now three or four dollars ton higher.
Although not all the items of expense
have been assembled as yet, the COM
mittee authorize the statement that the
cost of the system will be very close to
the amount raised by the issue of bonds,
SOS, 1000.
The water will be turned on as soon
as the transfer is complete, which 1t Is
expected will be within two or three
days, and the transfer will be made
as of Jan. 1st, that is, the income of the
system goes to the village corporation
from that date.