Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-07-16
CLAIM ANOTHER PUMP
WILL SOON BE NEEDED
At TRUNY0N WATER WKS.
Water Board Hears About Two
Styles Of Pumps at Meeting
Held Last Night Pipe for
the New Main Has Arrived.
TO CONTINUE WELL DRIVING

TO CONTINUE WELL DRlVlNG
Because they believe that the pres
ent twelve-million gallon pump Will
soon be inadequate TO supply suffl-
cient water, the Board of Water
Commissioners have begun consider
ing the purchase of a fifteen-mllllon
capacity pump for the Runyon wa
ter works to boost the water into
the mains leading to Perth Amboy.
Superintendent Thomas Grieve, OF
the water department, at the regular
meeting of the board last night, sub
mitted data concerning the cost, eff
ficiency and adaptability of different
pumps. He told the commissioners
that a fifteen-million centrifugal,
turbine pump would cost $4,000,
and that vertical, triple expan-
sion, steam driven pump would cost
100000. He said 1t would not be
feasible to use the former to boost
water directly into the mains, but
that 1t would be necessary to con-
struct a reservoir at Runyon for the
storage Of the water. Such reser-
voir he estimated would cost $780,
600. If the vertical, triple expan-
sion, steam driven pump were used
1t would be necessary to place
foundation for 1t, the cost OF which,
considering the sandy soil at the
watershed, he estimated at $4,000
The report of the superintendent was
received with thanks and he was
asked to gain further data in refer
x4nce to a fifteen-million capacity
p Runyon, chairman OF the
tipe committee, reported that the
Ridtpath & Potter Company, OF
Philadelphia, had sunk the test well
according to the contract given them
by the board to a depth OF $40 feet.
and that they had struck a strata Of
rock through which they had bored
about thirty feet. He recommended
that though the contract price would
be increased 81 per foot for the sink
ing of the well through the rock, the
work be continued. The company
had agreed to dig the well at $2.7b
DER foot, but this did not include
ring through solid rock. Mr.
lyon said that 1t was the first test
well sunk by any water board OF the
city to determine the nature and
quantity OF water that lay beneath
the rock bed, and declared strata
of water might be found beneath 1t
that would more than reimburse the
board for the expense OF the test.
He thought that copious supply OF
water free from iron might be To-
Gated. The iron OF the water from
the artesian wells has always dis
couraged the use of the deep-sunk
wells for potable purposes. If no
better water than is in the other
artesian wells is found, the test will
be we'll worth while Mr. Runyon
told the board, as he declared City
Engineer Mason had stated 1t would
make an excellent artesian we'll with
capacity of million gallons a day.
On motion of Mr.. Timmins the pipe
committee was given the power to
continue the boring through the lay
er of rock in the committees own
discretion. The well may be sunk
100 or more feet deeper.
Mr.. Runyon made an inspection OF
the water shed yesterday and report
ed that the five million gallon arte-
sion pump was on the grounds ready
to be installed This pump will be
used in the aeration of the artesian
we'll water to filter from 1t the d.
oxide OF iron, which prohibits Its
use in It's natural state for potable
purposes. The water will be ae-
rated over large expanse of sandy
soil, which, it is declared will alb
sorb the Objectionable dioxides.
Mr.. Runyon reported that part OF
the pipe for the thirty-inch main
between Runyon and Ernston stand
pipe had arrived, and that a trench
about one thousand feet long nearly
the required depth for the laying OF
the pipe had bee< dug by the con-
tractor, Ira R. Grouse. Mr. Runyon
said the pipe shipped looked first
class and it ran over the weight of
the contract price. As Mr.. Grouse
accepted the contract by the foot, the
city naturally receives the benefit
from such overweight.
w. P. Nolan, chairman of the f.
nance committee made a motion,
which was carried, requesting the
city treasurer to have printed and
engraved the necessary bonds for
the 100000 issue OF water board
bonds to be made September 1.
Hugh Timmins, chairman OF the
real estate committee, reported the
completion of the building for the
new boiler He suggested that a
cleanup day be instituted at Run
yon, and that the landscape garden
ing be done to make the place at
tractive to visitors. The commits
sioners, including Mr.. Tfmmins, how
ever, agreed that 1t would be bet
ter to wait until the developments
under way at the water shed shall
have been completed before taking
such action. Commissioners pres
ent:. C. %. Snedeker. w. P. Aun-|
@pn. w. r. Nolan and HnGA
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