The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-28
CITY WATER IS BEST
FOR USE IN BOILERS
Superintendent Early Issues
Card in Answer to Re-
ports Circulated.

AS an answer to some false state
ments that have been persistently cir
culated in Marietta for some time
past to the effect that the new city
water is excessively hard and that it
is absolutely unfit for use in steam
boilers, l wish to submit a few ex-
tracts from a report made by the
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection &
Insurance Company, of Hartford,
Conn.
This report was made to Mr.. B. G.
Brumby, of the Marietta Chair Com
pany, at his request, and the report
is based on an analysis of three sam
Piles of water which Mr.. Rrumby fur
nished to the Hartford company about
three months ago. The three sam
pies of water were taken one each
from the old and the new waterworks
and one from private we'll on the
premises of the Marietta Chair Com
pany.
The full report is rather too lengthy
to publish here, but any one who is
interested may see a full copy of it
at the City Waterworks office on
Church street, or the original report
may be seen at the office of the Ma
rietta Chair Company.
That the public may know that we
at least are disposed to be absolutely
fair We are submitting for publication
enough of this report to show that for
steam boiler purposes the water fur
nished by both the old and the new
waterworks are practically the same
Extracts from Report.
Hartford, Conn., April Is, 1911
Marietta Chair Company, Marietta, Ga
Gentlemen: The sample of water
labeled Factory Well' and described
as well at our factory" depth not
given, but from analysis presumably a
comparatively shallow we'll, as sub
mitted to. me for analysis, contain,
per 100000 parts of water:
Matter insoluble or made insolu-
bic by heating .............10.8
Readily soluble solid matter .13 6
OldI SOlIuS o .. . Z 4
or the moderate amount of 1425
grains to a L. S. Gallon
There was also a large
amount of organic matter, some sill
ceous material, and some little iron
oxide and alumina, but no appreciate
ammonia, though a greatly abnormal
amount of nitrates and absence of the
usual CarbOnates
This is a very bad con
taminated, corrosive water. This is
one of the most abnormal waters
have ever tested, and evidently much
affected by seepage from the soil or
some other cause.
The scale might be managed but
cOrrosion from the nitrates could in
40 way be sufficiently prevented.
Do not use this water at all
The sample of water labeled New
City Water" and described as from a
well drilled about 300 feet through
solid granite, as submitted to me for
analysis, contains, per 100000 parts of
water:
Matter insoluble or made insolu-
BILE by heating ...............10.S
Readily soluble solid matter. 49,. SO
Total solids ...............14 4
or the very moderate amount of Sal
grains to a U. s. gallon.
Scale matter from this
water will be very moderate in amount
. and is mainly silceous material, lime
carbonate and magnesia carbonate
with perhaps slight lime carbonate
This is a very good boiler
feed, quite equal to the better class of
boiler water.
1t is, however, likely to make some
rather solid scale and it is little
harder than much of the stream
water in your region. Still it is bet
ter to have some deposit to manage
than to have water so free from de
post matter as to be injuriously cor
rosive, as some of your soft supplies
The sample of water labeled "Old
City Water" and described as from a
system of waterworks supplied from
branches near town, as submitted to
me for analysis, contains, per 100000
parts of the water
Matter insoluble or made insolu-
BILE by heating ................ 43
Readily soluble solid natter. 4 .
Total solids OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IS
or the very moderate amount of 514
grains to a U. S. Gallon
There was also a very
considerable proportion of siliceous
material, slight organic matter and a
trace of iron, but no appreciate am
monia or nitrates.
- So. Scale from this water
will be very moderate in amount and
is mainly siliceous material, with a
little lime sulphate and magnesia
oxide, slight lime and magnesia car