The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-26
HISTORY Of THE
FILTRATION PLANT

When the subject first came M
Dawson. Sayrc and Cotucr were
elected delegates to make trip OF
inspection. which they did They
visited Dallas. Fort Worth. Oklahoma
City. Guthrie, PaWncc. Tulsa. ONmul
gee. Mushogco. McNlcstcr shawnee
and pau.a Valley. and upon their re-.
/ tura Mr.. Dawson recommended a
plant below the dam in order 10
save one pumping This pan seem.
od favorable and vas udorscd by
the mayor and adopted unammousn
by a full vote of the boarl
Mr. Foster. of the Nrdmorc lee.
Light a Power company stated that
he would pump the water from the
north side of the dam for the same
money he is now pumping provided
On, pumus were not placed over
five t-J fco, below their present
l,yoL
The mayor and tho board OF com
mIssionors insisted on written
proposition from MIR Foster. and
he had Mr. kocddiug of ST. Louis.
the engineer OF the Icmp brewing
company. como down to look over
the ground. As soon as Nj KocI-
ding looked over the ground and pro.
posed plane he discovered that they
would have to pump against AN ad.
d.tioual head of thirty-nyc $3.50 feet
which would cost 0O1S cents per
thousand gallon more than W. are
row paying and for the amount We
are now pumping an additional eX.
pousc of about eleven hun lred
Hi,l00.0O) dollars annually.
The board employed Mr.. MaNcy
as consulting engineer. and ne
agreed exactly with the finding OF
Mr.. Kocdding. the ST. Louis engi
neer. Then the plans and speclfica.
tions Of the city engineer were turn.
ed over 10 Mr.. MaXcy and he re-
ported that such plans We're defective
In a number Of instances and made
n detailed estimate showing that
the plant as planned wOull cost over
thirty-nine thousand (s39. .O00) dol.
lars. The city engineer and Mr. Daw.
son claimed that their plant would
not cost over sthirty thousand
S30000) dollars. Then the mayor
made fight against the adoption
Of the plans OF the city engineer.
but the board adopted them and
called for bids on part OF the work.
amounting to about one-half of the
work. and the lowest bin came to
little over nineteen thousand
&l9,000) dollars. At this time Mr.
Erickson put in a bid for q plant
which he agreed TO give bond in the
fun sum OF cost to guarantee ex.
actly the same purity as with the
Dawson and Sayrc plan. This caus.
ed a majority OF the board 70 hes.
itatc. They saw at once II they
could get a plant that would do ex.
actly the same work for twelve
thousand (sl2,0OO dollars instead OF
thirty-nine thousand (S39,00O) dol.
lars. that they would save the initial
cost OF twenty-seven thousand
(s27 ,000) dollars. In addition to this
saving under the Erichsen plan, or
pumping was all that was required
and n became unnecessary to move
the pump house and put IL down
under the dam where possible
washout would completely ruin the
whole plant. On account of this bid
all bids were rejected and the full
board decided TO look into the mat
ter further. Messrs. Brdgman. Jones
and Burnitt did so. and after exam.
lining plant at Paris, Texas. where
the Roberts Filter people construct.
ed plant for a little over ten
sand 100000 dollars. which H.
ters the water from a lake like
NiAbIbIf lOl tbNH uSluS dpbul
the same amount of water as We
do, they all decided that three
pressure filters put south OF TIE
present pump-house would do the
work Just as Erichsen and the filter
people sai1 they would. That u
they did not work perfectly the city
would not lose cent for the sedi
mentaton basins could be put I'm
later without any additional cost
That the city would save the follow.
ing items:
Saving on initial cost, $4,000
Annual interest at per cent on
s29 900, 81 $50.
Saving on pumping annually, sl100.
II in the face OF these figures the
majority OF the board and adopted
the most extensive plan when the