The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-05-06
ARTES|AN WELLS
TO SUPPLY WATER
Work Started By the Commits
sionerS at Foot of Camp
bell Hill.

The Water Commissioners are Dor
sng for water. Shut off from Algood
creek by various law suits, and un
willing to make a thirsty town wait
the slow proceedings of the courts
the Board is trying to reach some
of the water over which Providence
has exclusive jurisdiction-de deep down
in the granite.
An "artesian welr' is being bored at
the foot of Campbell's hill an some
where four or five hundred feet be
low the surface, it is expected that
an abundant supply of pure and spark
ling water will be obtained. Marietta
already has one such well at the ice
plant, so the sinking of a we'll for the
city is not a wild goose chase.
The Water Board consists Of Mayor
Clay, Mr.. T. A. Granting, DR. S. ID.
Rambo, Mr.. j. j. Black, and Mr.. l.. b.
Robson. They have gone into the
matter carefully, and have collected
a vast amount of data in regard to
deep wells at other points.
They have bought a tract of land
on Sessions street, at the foot Of
Campbell's HILL and there MIR. Dew,
the artesian well expert, is boring a
ten-inch well. There has also been
bought from Mrs. Campbell site for
the stand pipe on the top of the hill
The stand pipe will be of concrete
and have a capacity of 100000 gallons.
Immediately at the well will be res
ervoir with a capacity of 100000 gal
Ions, so the city will always have on
The water will be pumped from the
we'll by air pressure.
East Point has two wells that give
$4,000 gallons a day. Fort McPher-
son has used deep wells for years.
Columbus is boring twelve.
1t is expected that the water will
be turned on by September, if not
sooner.
AS already stated, the sinking of
deep wells in this section is not re-
garded as an experiment. Atlanta's
famous artesian well is remembered
by every one. 1t was in the heart of
the city. The water came from the
granite formation, and was in such
quantity that the pump could not eX-
haust the supply. The use of the we'll
was discontinued when the city in
stalled the present water-Works sys-
tenn
EX-MayOr DObbs has a very fine
well, 800 feet deep, at the ice plant.
1t is a siX-inch well, drilled through
the granite and cased off so that no
surface water enters it, A two-anda-
half inch pipe rests within the six
inch pipe, and with it is connected a
half-inch pipe, through which air pres
sure is supplied from an air-pump in
the ice plant. The water is driven up
through twO-and-a-half inch pipe, and
the capacity is 10000 gallons a day. 1t
is clear as crystal and there seems to
be no limit to the quantity. 1t is dis
titled before being made into ice
Ex-MayOr Dobbs thinks the Water
Board is not making a mistake in drill
ing the deep wells, the litigation pend
ing having blocked the original plans
The pipes will be laid in the direc-
ton of MONDAY and Algood creeks,
and there will be no loss on that ac-
count, when at the end of the litiga-
ton the city goes ahead with the
plans first proposed. In the meantime,
the city will have supply of water
for temporary needs, and possibly
enough for many years.
The underground streams probably
come from the North Georgia noun
tains, and are piped by nature to the
very doors of the people who need
the water.