The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-01-14

ice and gas plants, it could under
sell Taylor and Hunter and would
| probably put them out OF business,
unless they unloaded on the town
| The city could also put up a dry
goods store and a grocery store and
a shoe store and a bakery and BIZ
cycle shop. etc. and underesI1,
bankrupt or buy out Rheinauer, Har-
| yey Clark, Carter and Hamp Cham
| bers, but il hasn't any business going
| into such business.
The mayor is very anxious ~ OBJ
( tain better water for the city, which
| is patriotic in him. but why he wants
/ the city to pay out money to bore
wells when there are already wells
down all over town is past compre-
hension. 1t is established by gaolo-
gists and engineers that there is no
soft water here except rainwater
which runs into surface wells Sur
| face wells are not only precarious,
| but unsanitary, and all the water
from that source in this part of the
country would not last Ocala one day
in the week in the dry season The
only practicable thing for OcaIa to
DO in this direction is to put in
softening plant for its water supply,
the only fault of which is its hard
| ness.
The mayors fourth recommended
ton. for putting down a. sewerage
we'll in each block, is directly con-
| trary to the state law, which is as
! follows:
Chapter 6443-(NO. 23)
AN ACT to Preserve the Purity of
the Underground Waters of the
! State of Florida for the Protec-
ton of the Public Health.
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of
| the State of Florida:
Section / That the term I'm
foreground Waters of the State, y
when used in this act, shall include
all underground streams and springs
and underground waters within the
borders of the state of Florida,
whether flowing in underground
channels or passing through the
| pores of rocks.
Sec. 2 No municipal corporation,
| private corporation, person or per-
sons, within the state, shall, after
the passing of this act, use any cav
! ity, sink, driven or drilled we'll now
| in existence, or sink any new we'll
within the corporate limits, or with
| in five miles of the corporate limits,
of any incorporated city or town, or
within any unincorporated city, town
/ or village or within five miles there
| of, for the purpose of draining any
| surface water or discharging any
sewerage into the underground wa
| tiers of the state, without first OBJ
| tanning a written permit from the
! State Board of Health.
Sec 3. Every such permit for the
discharge of sewerage, or surface
| water, shall be revocable or subject
to modification or change by the
| State Board of Health, on due no.
tice, after an investigation and hear
ing, and an opportunity for all in
terests and persons interested there
in to be heard thereon; said notice
or notices being served on the per-
som or persons owning. maintaining
or using the we'll, cavity or sink, and
by publication for two weeks in a
newspaper published in the county
in which said we'll, cavity or sink is
located The length of time after
the receipt of the notice within
which it shall be discontinued may
be stated in the permit. All such
permits, before becoming operative,
shall be filed in the Office of the
clerk of the circuit court for the
county in which such permit has
been granted.
Sec. 4 For the purpose of this
act, sewerage shall be defined as any
substance that contains any of the
waste products of excrementitious or
other discharges from the bodies of
human beings or animals.
Sec. B. Every individual, munich
pal corporation, private corporation
or company, shall discontinue the
discharge within the corporate limits
or within five miles of the corporate
limits of any incorporated city or
town, or. within any unincorporated
city, town or village or within five
miles thereof, of sewerage or surface
drainage into any Of the under
ground waters of the state within
ten days after having been so order
ed by the State Board of Health.
Sec 6. Any municipal corpora
ton, private corporation, person OF
persons that shall discharge sewer
age or surface drainage or permit