South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-30
sUPT. (. F. CRABILL
REPORTS ON WELLS
Statement Made Showing That
RumorS About Wells Running
Dry Are False.

In view OF the rumors that have
been going the rounds for week or
more that the wells have gone dry
and the new water supply is "a failure,
the following report from the superin-
tendent of the department 10 the wa
ter works committee OF the council
viii be Of interest TO every citizen.
To the Water Works committee.
Gentlemen:
II beg 10 make the following report
IN reference 10 the new pumping sta
ton.
we have been pumping more or
less since Oct Ist and started keeping
records of hours OF operation on oct.
9Th.
ON Oct. 9Th we pumped six hours
and 10 minutes at the rate of three
million gallons per day.
ION oct. 9Th, five hours.
ION Oct. eth, intermittently.
ION oct. Sth. the old plant WAS shut
down from / / a. m. till $50 y. m.
"On Oct. 9th. from II a. IA. till 4
=. m. old plant down.
con oct. 10th, pumped from $3.50
a. m. till s y. m.
ION oct. l1th 9 a. m. till 4:3O y. m.
with old plant shut down
ION oct. 18th, . "a. IN. ill D. m.
old plant down.
Ion oct 18th, $50 a. m. till y. m.
old plant Gown.
"On oct. 14th. a. IN. till p. m,
with old plant down. on this date
we pumped seven hundred and nine
ty-nine thousand gallons in eight
hours. This is 90 Il gallons for every
man. woman and child in MishaWaka.
oct 18th. we started at $40 "a. IN.
and with the exception OF shutting
down for the purpose OF allowing the
engine builders 10 make adjustments
the plant has run continuously since.
From $40 a. m. Oct. 18th to a
m. Oct 18TH. there was pumped
I.495,252 gallons
oct 10th there was pumped HIS
$50 gallons.
"Oct. 18th there was pumped 1884
900 gallons
"Oct. 18th there was pumped 1.752,-
521 gallons.
"Oct. 18th there was pumped 1,417,-
los gallons.
oct. 2Oth there was pumped 1861
SIS gallons.
Oct 21st there was pumped 1,735,-
$50 gallons.
"Oct. 22d there was pumped 1,745,-
$50 gallons
oct 2Sd there was pumped 1915
512 gallons.
"Oct. oath there was pumped 1.795,-
596 gallons.
"Oct. 25th there was pumped LEO
26S gallons
oct 26th there was pumped 1,454,-
94S gallons.
ION oct. 18TH we took the cap off
No. 3 we'll and measured the height
of the ground water. or. in other
words this we'll not being pumped, its
level would indicate the height of the
water in the surrounding territory
from which oru supply was being
drawn. ON Oct. 25th we again exam
med this we'll and found that the
ground water had risen three feet.
This rise, YOU will note, occurred
while we were pumping at the rate OF
more than one million six hundred
thousand gallons per day. Allowing
so gallons per capita this Is seven
hundred thousand gallons more than
should be pumped ut this time Of the
year.
a week ago we noticed that the
screens were clogging, and upon eX-
aiming No we'll we found the
screen filled with stones and sticks
Of wood Some of the finer gravel
had been pulled through the screen.
hut the larger stones and sticks had
been thrown in from the top.
THE indications are that four more
OF the wells are badly clOgged and Will
have to be cleaned out. We antici-
pated this and provided for il by cap
ping the wells in such a way that the
caps could be taken off and the
screens pulled out and cleaned or
longer ones of a different type put in
il il was found necessary.
There was always some doubt
about this particular type of screen
being just the right thing. but as the
cost was only 50 each il was worth a
trial Ii is my opinion that they have