Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-02-06
REPORTS Of CITY
COMMISSIONERS
Water Department in Fine
Shape.
MANY POLICE CALLS.
Commissioners Report the Work of
Their D partment to City
Council Last N ght.


The various commissions reported |
to City Council last night The fol- |
| lowing is the complete report of the |
Commissioner of Public Works:
To the City Council OF the City of
Bridgeton, N. ].
Gentlemen
Since the last meeting of City Coun-
Gil, the water pipe extension on Gar
fied Avenue has been completed. This
line is of six inch pipe and runs from
the old main in the center of South
Pine street to Southeast Ave, a dis
tance of $40 feet. A Fire Hydrant
was placed on the southwest corner
of South East and Garfield avenues,
and connections left for future extern
1 tions along Spruce street and for a
| hydrant at that corner. The line was
laid according to the grade given by
the City Engineer and little deeper
| than usual, to allow for future grading
without danger of having too little
1
line was approximately $4,000.
The Commerce Street Pumping Sta
ton is running satisfactorily and as
efficiently as can be expected. have
visited this plant daily and spent sew
eral evenings each week with the
night shift in order to familiarize my
self thoroughly with the plant and
know that the work is befEg carried
on properly.
| While no systematic meteorological
tests have been made, owing to the
fact that the laboratory has been held
in readiness for testing the filters, /
have found opportunity to test the
water several times with view of
determining the efficiency of the i'm
provised filters which we are using,
and also the efficiency of the chlorini-
zation. The average results are as
follows:
| Bacteria in East Lake water, 25S
per cubic centimeter.
!
cubic centimeter. ~.
Bacteria in Water in City pipes, 6
per cubic centimeter.
This shows a very good reduction,
due principally to the application of
chloride of lime to the water just be-
fore it passes through the pump.
These results are good but at the
same time l wish to call the attention
of the City Council to the fact that the
water, which we are at times CON-
PEELED to take from East Lake, is un-
necessarily polluted with sewage mat
ter within few hundred feet of an
intake This source of contamination
could be readily removed without SER
ious Inconvenience or expense to the
property holders.
At the new plant the emergency
pump was tested last Wednesday and
found to run satisfactorily. The pump
delivered a little over 5000 gallons
per minute at speed of 325 revolu-
| IioAo pOI hiuulS. AAS opOSlhSdelOuS
required the delivery of $500 gallons
per minute at speed not to exceed
400 revolutions per minute. The fill
ters are being tested at the present
time.
Some inconvenience was expert
enced during the past week owing to
the insufficient capacity of the over
flow pipe line from the coagulation
BASIN The line leaves the basin with
diameter of "a inches, but due to
lack of material, was reduced to IL
inch before it reached the river. This
reduction, of course, causes the water
to back up, with the result that the
surface of the ground is flooded and
also the basement of the pump house
and one of the boat houses near the
raceway. 1t will be necessary to re-
lay part of this line, and this can
probably be done best and cheapest
by using such pipe as will be left over
from the thirty inch conduit.
A sewer stoppage on Marion street
about week ago caused some trou-
BILE. and was rather an unpleasant ex-
perience for the occupants of a house
on that street, the cellar of which
was badly flooded. The city owns, at
present, no sewer rods, and it was