Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-15
7 At ACRES OF WATER.
An Option Taken on the Enoch Moore
Farm. BOardman Made Engineer


/ A special meeting of City Council,
with all present except Messrs. Bat
lten, Park and Wickersham, was held
on Tuesday evening.
The object of the meeting was to
take 80 day option on the Enoch
Moore farm of AZ acres, lying east OF
the railroad, and just north of Wood
bury creek. owned by Col. Green, ae
the site for a new artesian water
plant in case test wells prove suit-
able.
Mr.. Bayer made the motion that the
Solicitor secure the option, then Mr.
Coombs called Mr. Bayer to the chair
and explained what was proposed
He said the reason for securing an
option on the whole farm was that in.
case of driving two wells and they
proving satisfactory they would not
only have ample room to locate the
water works but in addition should
the cityin the future conclude to build
a garbage disposal plant, or sewage
disposal plant, or an: electric light
and gas plant or any other munici-
pal plant, all could be located upon
this farm which contains about forty
seven acres The city could purchase
about eighteen acres. Of the meadow
land for $500 or the whole farm of
| forty-seven acres for $4,000 and the
committee and other Councilmen who
visited the different sites thought it
would be wise to look ahead and buy
/ the whole farm
This is the place that Mr. Dunlap,
Y ac.,4f xxy1,
tion last Saturday, said was most de-
sirable. The motion was adopted
Mr.. Bayer said there was need OF
an engineer, and nominated Mr..
Boardman.
Mr.. Coombs said weIwere reaching
a point in this proposition where we
must go right, and in D business-like
way and that could only be done by
employing a competent guide
Mr. Burkett and MI Heaton also
/ favored such action, and the motion
was adopted.
Mr.. Bayer said that with others he
went over the water proposition last
Saturday with Mr. Dunlap The first
place visited was the Griscom prop
erty. This, Mr.. Dunlap said, was too
small to locate the wells on The
next site was the pumping station
This, Mr.. Dunlap said, is too high
and you would have to pump into a
cistern and then into the reservoir.
! At your present consn gtioH YOU are
up to the limit of twelve inch main
and by locating at the pumping sta
ton it would mean a larger main and
/. probably a new pump and engine
house. When they visited the Moore
I farm Mr. Dunlap said this is the ideal
spot and as you have a flowing we'll
at the foot of Matlock's hill no doubt
all of your wells would be flowing
wells and if so, SO much the better.
Other sites visited were the property
west of the Delaware River Railroad.
BY locating on the Moore farm it will
not be necessary to build a stand-pipe
or increase the size OF the reservoir,
but simply run your main to connect
with your present main and put in a
relief check and when you have a
pressure in the City of about fifty
pounds the check would close and the
extra supply would go out into the
reservoir for night consumption and
you would at all times have fresh and
cool water
Benz. G. Brown said he thought
Council was making a mistake in not
| locating on the Griscom farm There
lis room for eleven wells 200 feet
apart, and should in the future the
| city need more land they would be
able to secure the Starr meadow. You
have better railroad facilities for the
| handling of coal at the Griscom prop
| erty and it would require but a short
piece of water main in order to con-
meet with your present main. To To-
cate on the Moore farm it would be
necessary to lay about half mile OF
water main and an extra expense for
the laying of main across the creek.
/ By locating on the Griscom property
the ~city would be saving $4,000, at
the start.
At the suggestion of the Board OF
Health Council directed an ordinance
i be drawn providing for semi-weekly
collection of garbage.
The report of the Water Superin-
/ tendent for the month of July was
read and ordered filed Pumped &c.
/ $50, 500 gallons of water; consumed
5000 pounds of coal and 3 3-4 gal
Ions of oil. Pumped 430 IL hours
Flushed 78 fire hydrants.