Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-01-23

THE WATER CANNOT m Fill
TERED WITHOUT TREATMENT.
AND ANY ATTEMPT TO DO so.
WILL RESULT N FAILURE AS.
WELL As RUIN TO THE PLANT.
Tests.
The various tests t0nduc. ed by
Mr.. l.. II. Owen Expert FILTER Oner-
ator Of the American Steel and Wire
Co.. Chicago. H.. shows the follow
ing results:
The average alkalinity OF thr raw
expeded In rne culture when che
water from January SIN. 10 January
18th. has been $50 parts per mil
lion. These results may be consider
"a a. a fair average w wha. can ~
expected in the future when the
river rs AZ the same stage. The treat
ment OF the water during THIS period
has been as follows.
Lime hydrate one grain per gal
Ion. 143 lbs, per LOCO. 900 gals.
Iron Sulphate M grain per gallon
l43 lbs, per l.o00.o0O gals.
The cost 81 treatment by the lime
and iron process will be S2.5C per
million gallons. based on the cost of
iron Sulphate AZ sl.l4 per 100 lbs.
in cloth sacks and lime hydrate al
-65c per 100 lbs. In paper sacks.
delivered AZ the plant. The filter
plant IN now producing a supply on
water OF 9S per cent purity. WHICH
Is the high standard Of efficiency.
placed by the various departments
~ health throughout the country.
and which result has been met In
every instance aud IN many cases ex-
ceeded az shown by the Official re-
ports or various cities where water
publication is employed. This stan
dard or purity must be maintained
so that the water can be used for
every purpose without fear from
contamination.
hsdrate The Observation-Disclosures
The c0st of treatment with lime
hydrate and alumina sulphate j.
much higher. By using one grain ~
lime hydrate 70 the gallon and one
grain OF alumina sulphate per gal
lon and basing the cost or alumina
sulphate al s4.oo per loo lbs. and
lime hydrate M CSC per 100 lbs.
the cost OF publication would be
$685. per million gallons. or Si.0a
per million gallons more than the
cost OF the treatment with lime and
iron.
The plant must he placed In charge
or a reliable operator. whose hourly
vigilcnce viii be the price 81 pure
water and In whose hands the life q
every citizen ~ the city or Browns
willie l. at stake. No one knows when
contamination NAV appear. n N pos
sible IL may never happen. but the
greatest sc0urEe of typhoid fever
which ever visited this country az
Butler. Pa. originated from "a cause
entireAy foreign 10 local conditions
and a. the filter plant WIS out Of
service undergoing repairs AZ a time
when no person suspected that dis
ease lnrAed IN the water. $50 people
lost their lives IN a little over a
month and business suffered thous-
ands IN dollars loss.
The ep.demic which later made
its appearance ~ Scranton. Pa. ~.
fresh IN the minds OF everyone. Dr.
Saml WI. Dax0n. Commissioner q
Health 81 the State or Pennsylvania.
traced the origin of the scourge a.
Scranton u the Gushing az a toilet
on a passenger train on the Delaware
Larkawanna A Western Railroad.
whose line crosses the stream which
connects upner and lower Lake seran-
ton. which supplies scranton with
water. and the dumping q. the ty-
phoid bearing excrement from eth
or a passenger In the first stage -.
fNn lt~Nt@f CIT NNhfA@Ah~ ~
have been he case. = said to have
been the rause of me epidemic, which
cot the lives ~ nearly 3oo people.
and parairzed business interests In.
that community.
Any person Who ever again turns.
the raw Rio Grande into the mains.
az BrovnsvHle ieopardizes the Ire
~ every citizen who uses the water
ana should " held responsible 70
the result. A. provisions have been
made In the conservation of me
plant 10 furnish AT the altered va
ter ever required either ior natural
~ the most extreme reqpircments-
supply ~ Materials
unaiA ths4ilkrediaic