Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-06-06
PUBLIC HEARING ON WATER
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fUBL1C HEAhN6 VN WAYEK
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would be areated
d. f. Hendrickson Has Camden
thought of filtering their water? Mr..
b.: No, not Tor general purposes.
see no necessity for Camden in
stalling filter.
C. III .Batten: Could our present
supply be satisfactorily filtered? Mr..
B.: With good filter, the present
supply would be perfectly safe.
M F. Cattell: Wouldn't an expert
be necessary to keep the filter in
operation? Mr.. B.. An expert would
not be required.
Theo. Burrows: What kind of fl
ter would you advise? Mr.. B.: /
prefer an open gravity filter.
Mr.. B.: If you can get enough ar
tesian water and q perfect drinking
water, use it. / would use 8-inch
test wells; smaller ones are no good .
would suggest two or three wells
for tests on the present site pumped
a week or ten days for an accurate
test.
Mr.. Trask: Is there any decrease in
the Camden artesian supply? Mr.. B !.
A little; artesian wells require to be
kept up.
G. w. Shivers: The decrease isn't
due to the source decreasing, is it?
Mr.. B: 1t is due to the suction pack
ing the sand around the bottom of the
WE'LL
Mr.. Pfeifer: In regard to putting in
wells, Mr.. B. is absolutely right as
to making exhaustive tests. The de-
crease in the supply is due to the
clogging of the strainers. 1t is not
necessary to use strainers any more,
for punched or slotted pipe has
been proved superior for it does not
clog. The artesian plant supplying
Perth Amboy is 9 miles from that
city and located in the pine belt. The
deepest we'll goes down but 80 feet.
The wells there are 800 feet apart.
The question of quantity of water de-
pends upon three things: 1, The
coarseness of the sand; 2, The thick
ness of it; and 3, The supply of water
| to the sand. Put in two or three
wells and test them then for inter
i ference. You must remember that
plant giving 1900 gallons per min
ute may not do it every minute in
the day and every day in the year.
Theo. Burrows brought up the ex-
pense of laying new main from the
present plant when an artesian plant
might be located right at our door !.
Mr.. B. In case of large confiagra-
tion, the present supply might be
needed, for the artesian supply might
run dry If artesian wells were To-
Gated near the present supply, in emer
gencies, the present supply could be
made use of.
Mr. B.: The future of Woodbury.
should decide whether or not an ar
tesian plant should be built here.
can see a greater Woodbury. in the
distance, and in that case, the land
where the test well has been driven
would be more valuable for other pur
poses and it is not wise to have wells
located near densely inhabited areas !.
And, too, in the future, there might
not be sufficient well to meet the max
imum demand
c. w. Shivers presented letter
from the State Chemist of Pennsyl-
vania, he having been shown the
analyses of Woodbury. water as pub
; lished couple of weeks ago. He
recommended the adoption of an ar
tesian supply.
w. H. Sithens: This change of
viewpoint as to the quality of our
water is very strange. Is this troub-
lie a reality, or is there something
personal about the agitation?
Mr.. Bayer: If Mr.. Sithens will
IL s-%r h fo loo
his mind
| c. H. Batten: What is the State
Board of Health for-Isn't it their
! duty to stop pollution if it exists?
A~W Cattell The State Board OF
Health has investigated and said it
didn't hurt it..
T d. Clark: / move that it be the
sense of this meeting that Council put
| in test wells to see if an artesian sup
| ply is available.
J. D. Carpenter: l move it be
amended to read that the wells be
t sunk at the old water plant.
Mr.. Wickersham: ] think this agita
! ton is all a hullabaloo. 1t is due to
! freshet that is easily explained, for
| the gates at the Prickett's pond dam
were lifted and the water allowed to
overflow into our supply. We have
dug an artesian well to satisfy the
! Board of Trade. / stand for the i'm
proyement of our present supply
i the establishment of filter; one to
meet emergencies. Artesian water
i gives mineral troubles; surface, vege-
/ table troubles
| c. w. Shivers: The water was bad
long before we had the freshet.
A vote being taken, the motion OF
Mr.. Clark, without Mr.. Carpenters
amendment, was carried by vote OF
% to 9.
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