Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-22
INSPECTED STONY BROOK WORK
Common Council and Water Board Members Look Over
the Reservoir-Daily Progress on Corewall and Em-
banlment- 10000 Gallons Of Water Running in
Twenty -four Hours.

For the purpose of noting the Drog-
reSs and inspecting the work done at
Stony Brook reservoir, the members Of
the court of common council not on the
board of water commissioners and sew
eral others were invited by SuperiH :
tendent Cookery on Monday to look
over the basin where nearly nine score
of men are at work putting it in con-
dition for the impounding of water,
just as soon as possible. The visit was
revelation to many in the party, who
had not seen the locality or noted the
Roadway which is being made on the
job. The work was thoroughly looked
over and seven of the party took trip
in the bucket on the galloway, going
across the basin over the corewall AMI
return.
Those in the party were Mayor c. +.
Thayer, Aldermen Henry Gebrath,
Thomas H. Beckley, w. c. Mclaughlin,
Councilmen Lang. Cruthers. Fowler,
Briggs, Delaney, Baker and Barry. A.
s. Comstock, J. J. Cookery, Dr.. P. II.
Hartman, Judge N. j. Ayling, DR.. y.
B. Lewis, l.. w. Whiting, E. c. LilIi-
bridge, s. B. Palmer, w. F. Hill and
newspaper representatives.
Busy All Over the Job.
The trip was made by auto, five be-
ing used, and they left Union square ar
2.3O o'clock and reached the square on
the return at s, after a delightful trip.
A1cot u liO pol ~ lfdu SeeH lie WOIh CT
some stage of it, and the progress
which has been made is very notice.
able, and in the opinion of Louis
Petrossi of the Petrossi Construction
company the work will all be COM
pleted by the first of the year He
now has 175 men at work on the job
and intends to add so more at once.
The help is well distributed over the
BASIN which presents a busy scene.
with the groups Of men scattered here
and there at work on the different Sec
lions of the job. About the corewall
are quite d number, while many others
with teams are engaged in filling in
in back and in front of the corewau.
There are many engaged in getting out
stone and running the crushe1, others
are engaged in loading sand, which is
at present being obtained from the
north end of the pond, where deposit
is being found at some distance under
the soil, and on the northeast side .s
another gang making hole into the
bank, the gravel being used as a floor
ing for the basin. On the west side
the steam shovel is engaged in remoy-
ing a section of the center portion OF
the basin, which material is being
carted to dump off the basin, and
other teams are drawing in gravel for
the making OF easier access to the
meadow in the center.
Hurryine the Cleaning and Filling.
Mr.. Petrossi states that by the mid
die of next month the job of getting
out the loan and roots in the center
where the steam shovel is now at work
will be finished and the filling dona
This shovel keeps number of two
horse carts busy carting off the ma
terial and makes great inroads into the
Doggy covering of the basin.
To the depth of foot and half &c
two feet the basin at certain points is
being covered with gravel instead Of
attempting to remove the material
This gravel is carried by tram cars
from the bank to the point of deposit
each carrying cubic yard and a third
the gravel being leveled off as fast as
it is dumped What goes into the
center is being taken from the banl
so that it is simply moving the banl
and spr eading it over the basin and
not cutting down the capacity of the
reservoir.
Corewal Going Up.
The work on the corewalf is being
pushed as rapidly as possible. tn;
| third section above the ground has
| been poured and it is now between
one third and one-half DONE stated
| Engineer Palmer. This is being ad
! vanced rapidly because of the grea
4 help the galloway gives, it beino equa
| to the work of 100 men every day it il
| in use. Tho work of building the eartI
embankment on both sides of the core
wall is under way This will be higher
| than the corewall and on the bottom
| counting both Sides will be about II,
| feet from inside to the outside. TIL
| material for this embankment on the
| inside is being taken from the ives
| side of the basin. and over $1,000 cubic
yards will be taken from there ant