Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-07-18
X TO BORE TWO WELLS.l,
Council to, Further Investigate Ar
tesian Water-Dr. Reading Reports
Our Water @. K.-Artesian Dis
cassi0n.


ber All local discussion is about
water, and naturally, the special ses-
sion was meeting for the threshing
out of this momentous problem.
Mr.. Wickersham was the only coun-
cilmanic absentee.
A communication from the Board
hof Health requested Council to install
hypochlorite plant to
Thoroughly sterilize the water, and re-
recommended the arranging of the clean
| ing of the reservoir in such a manner
that the mud taken from same would
not slip back into that basin. On
motion of Mr.. Bayer, the communica-
ton was ordered received and spread
upon the minutes. 80
| Mr.. Bayer reported that the presi-
dent of the local Board of Health, DR..
Diverty, had, on Friday night, asked
that such sterilizing plant be in
stalled Immediately, and that such an
apparatus had been installed by Hun
gerford & Terry, Mr.. Boardman CO.
operating.
Mr.. Fowler, associated with Mr..
Boardman as water experts, and who
helped install the hypochlorite plant
at the pumping station was given the
privilege of the floor. Mr.. Fowler said:
The hypochlorite of lime is an
efficient sterilizing element 1t is
easily operated. The plant at the
easily operatd. The plant at the
Woodbury. water works was in op-
GRAFTON Saturday night Contamina-
blooded animal was existent in the
water. The water is now entirely
safe. The colon organism (the polu-
tion from the large intestine) will not
cause disease of itself
Your water is especially suitable
for treatment. 1t contains a moderate
amount of organic matter under nor
NAL conditions and perhaps an ex-
cess under abnormal conditions, such
as periods of heavy rainfall. You
can make it absolutely pure by the
use of a filter. Metuchen's S water is
fine, so is Moorestowns and theirs is
! filtered, but yours is better The
Delaware River at Chester, at Bristol
and at Burlington is successfully
treated by filtration, and your water
is better than the Delaware River
water In the case of two of those
4 towns, the water filtered contains
sewage in the proportion of to 6 and
/ / to 8.
Your water would not need the
Ihypochlorite treatment at all times,
Ibut in the case of heavy rains it might
Ebe wise to use it because of the food
ling of the watershed. 1t is used that
way in many places. If used all the
\ time you would be sure that the water
is all right 1t is always we'll to have
a man who is familiar with the opera
] ton of such plant. There is no
| danger in an overdose. Three hum
dred lbs. per million gallons would give
no trouble; we use but Is pounds per
million gallons. The taste you have
noticed in the water is probably due
to Sundays injection, because then
the water was purposely overdosed.
The artesian proposition is big
proposition. Every one acquainted
with artesian wells will tell you it is
a gamble. The water might be good,
it might not, and perhaps you would
/ have to filter it for hardness and with
chemicals for iron Your stream is
proven and sufficient in quantity and
adapted satisfactorily to filtration.
Filters will take care of it.
Some artesian water nearby is salts
! factory and some is not. Merchant
ville both areates and filters. | be-
lieve Camden is in different strata;
theirs is good.
'The Sewell we'll shows high iron
and evidence of contamination. If
/ pumped hard, it might have to be
!! filtered.
"Artesian water is surface water at
some time. The wells on Staten Is
land go low when there is a drought
In drought at Cape May, two wells
went out of commission and they were
240 feet deep too The government
records will show that artesian water
comes from surface streams. 1t may
dry up. Artesian wells are a lottery
.'The arteSian water that Woodbury.
would strike probably comes from the
Atlantic coast near Columbus--the
geological formations show that
There are three stratas here.
| TsaThe depth of the wells is no guar
bantee of good supply. A 1000-foot
Ilwell at Atlantic City was abandoned.
IlSurface water is used in Atlantic City
Ito cut down the hardness of the
hrtesian water.t-
/ woodbury. would get best resultS
from gravity filtration, / believe-an
Iopen gravity filter"
Being shown an analysis of the
test we'll on the Griscom tract, Mr..
Fowler said: There is no analysis for
iron, for hardness or for bacteria. The
Ilatter is most important. The analy-
sis is only a chemical analysis. A
600-foot artesian well once came
straight from a stream filled with
sewage one-quarter of mile away.
-Four Bridgeton wells went and
stayed dry. Two at TrentonS one at
Burlington and two at Beverly went
dry.
"Paulsboro has artesian water. It
is satisfactory with the exception of
high chlorine; a little high in mineral
solids.
There are ITO wells in Camden's
municipal plant.
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