Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-16

Tanning.
 pr. Hartman asked if the sum of Sso4.000 was sufIicient. and he ~As told that 1t was the amount reccm-
 mendsd by Chandler & Palmer. exclu- slve of land and water rights. Dr. Hartman thought that inaSmucn
 as the water and land rights would have to be secured it ought to be in the amount shall not be over $3Qt000. and It looked to him as if it was paving the way for another injunction.
 Statement Regarding Watershsd. A statement was made by Engineer Shepard B. Palmer at tho request of the water board.
 Stony brook it situated in the town
 Gardner lake and. flows down into Haughton's cove at a point below the Johnson witch hazel mill The brook at the dam site has an elevation of | 240 feet above mean tide and drains an area of s-1o souara miles. which 1 is the same area as our present sup- 1 ply from Fairview and Meadow brook combined. The watershed is excep- l tionally clean, having only three houses except on it's extreme summit, and one of these would be acquired by the city and the other two are not near the brook or any tributary thereof. Much J of the hillside land is wooded l The reservoir which Is proposed l WOulQ nave US 0VeTH0W ap el6RdllCu 267 or 1s 1-2 feet above the overflow of Fairview. The area of the reservoir would be 70 acres and tha capacity
 50,000,000 gallons. With this combi- | nation of storage and watershed. our ! estimate of the daily dependable yield 1 is 100000 gallons, and by using 1t in connection with our present supply 1t would last until we were using 65 to l 60 per cent. more water than now. l The water will be diverted from only | one mill and that is the Johnson witch hazel mill. which uses about S5 feet of l fall.
 ] Situated just above the proposed res
 ervoir is the Palmer pond and grist-
 mill. now owned by the city. This l pond at present holds about 20 million gallons. and 1t the future could be used 1 for additional storage by cleaning the
 basin and raising the dam.
 Our estimate of cost of developing 1 this supply, exclusive of water rights, from the dam to the 16-inch pipe on l Washington square a distance of a It, 1 tie less than five miles.
 We have recommended the use of a I 24-inch pipe most of the way, and with
 this plan the pressure over the city would be better than we are having from Fairview and the sumpits would 1 havs better service
 Amount Changed to $s2opoo. Corporation Counsel Tanning said | that if there is no objection he would 1 offer the resolution in a changed form and provide for the entire outlay now and would put in the full amount now and make it $S20,00o. This change
 was not objected to and was made No One Spoke.
 The mayor called for remarks upon l the motion and no one attempted to speak After lulI several cried NQuestion!" and the mayor called for a vote by all passing In front of the desk from the left to the right. Twenty
 had assembled at the desk and others about the ball were rising to their fest when Dr. Hartman addressed the meeting and those starting to vote halted.
 Dr. Hartman said Norwich had been agitating the water question for ten {. years, and when the vote was taken in 1 1902 it was not upon the merits of Stony brook, but as to whether the city ] would further develop the water sup
 ply already on hand. It was decided to l increase F'airview reservoir. The hfs- 1 tory of the department for the past ten years shows the fallacy of that idea. Five or six eminent engineers have ad- { vecated Stony brook for years. Lett ters in the papers hava told of a long i tunnel through rock and the crop of l stones at the brook, but he didn't be- ! iieve eminent engineers would advocate 1 any such plan if it is not feasible. He | said he had report to read.
 pr. Hartman Stopped. l At this point the mayor questioned
 the privilege of Dr. Hartman to speak, inasmuch as the vote had been ordered. There were several cries of Hear. the | doctor" Read it. from about the hall. Albert H. Boardman rose to 9 point 1 of. order and, upon request of the chair stated that 1t was that pr. Hartman
 mad etar ne aea right gt,a te present argufnents The mayor said that the point was | well taken and sustained it.
 4, T. Boon declared that the matter
 should be submitted to the people be- fore putting it to vote and the mayor ! stated that it had been.
 Ex-Mayor Crandall informed the chair that in two of the largest par 1 liamentary bodies it had been ruled that after the first vote had been taken l or before the no vote was taken that l ranarSs were in order.
 Someone at the back of the hall cried 1 out: Well. it's Stony brook. anyway" Under those conditions, pr. Harri-
 man said, he would submit.
 It was stated by the chair that the 1 balloting would proceed and the box 1 for the votes was placed in position
 F. J. Murtha moved that the taking l of the vote be postponed for ten min utes, but it was declared out of order
 386 Yes, 1o3 No.
 The voting then proceeded at $40 land continued until 9.30. good order be- l ing preserved. W. H. Shields was I among the last few to cast ballot and received much applause as he did so. The counting of the votes was done | by the registrars Of voters and oceii- pied fifteen minutes.
 1 There were 4S9 votes cast of which 3s6 were Yes and 103 No. Ths rnctf6n | was carried and the resolution adopted. This brought forth some applause.
 Third Proposition Voted.
 | Tn regard tn the third propositien, Clerk Moore read the following reseiu- tien as proposed hy Corporation Eeun- 1 sel Tanning, who moved it's adap- i ton:
 Resolved, That the finance committee l of the court of common council and 1 the city treasurer be, and they are hereby instructed and directed to forth with petition the general assembly of the state of Connecticut. now in ses- 1 sion, to grant to the city of Norwich l the authority to issue bonds to an | amount not to exceed 900 in order l to meet the expense of increasing the permanent water supply of said city in accordance with the. action taken at this meeting and
 Resolved, That copy of the record l of this meeting, certified by the city I clerk be presented with said petition and the represep<Ht Htiyes from the town 1 of Norwich in the legislature and the senator from this district are hereby irequested to co operate with the city l officials above designated in tine effort