Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-07-01
INTERESTING DATA
CONCERNING OUR
CITY WATER WORKS
CAPACITY OF PUMPS Is 1000. 900
GALLONS PER DAY-PLANT
KEPT CLEAN

Few people of the city are aware
of the magnitude of the institution
that supplies them with water during
the year and narration of some
facts concerning the City Water
Works would be of interest to almost
every one.
In the first place we should state
a visit to the water works will give
anyone a lesson i'm cleanliness that
will remain for some time. All Of
the fittings about the place, both brass
and nickle are kept highly polished
They look as if they had never been
handled. All oil and dust is daily re-
moved from all parts of the engines
and the wood work about them is
scrubbed The floor of the engine
room is kept absolutely clean. The
employees would no more think Of
throwing a burned match upon the
floor than the average person would
think of throwing one on the floor at
home In the boiler rooms where
hundreds of pounds of coal are burned
each day the same class of cleanliness
prevails.
Belongs water plant is one of the
best 10 be found in any city. The
work of installing began in the year
1906 but the plant was not completed
until the next year. other needed
things have been added from time to
time The existence Of the mains
alone has cost over s2500. The plant
has been really completed for only a
short time. The capacity of the en-
N a n
the building is sufficient to furnish
vastly more service. The plant is
built to adequately take care of Beld-
ing's needs for some time to come.
The water is slightly mineral and
comes from an average depth of
eighty feet. No healthier water can
be found i'm the state.
So far as known Belding is the only
city in Michigan where the free tap
ping system is i'm existence. This
means that the city taps the main and
carries the pipe to the curb without
specific charge to the customer and
this item alone averages to cost $500
for each tap.
1t is worthy of mention that when
the work of sinking wells was first
SldTltu IL was liouShl htItSSoiy ~
engage expert well drivers but after
putting down ten wells, varying in
depth from So TO 100 feet, some of
these being failures. the water COM
missioners decided TO buy their own
well driving outfit and the last seven
wells which have been put down by
the city under the supervision OF Mr..
Fredericks have not averaged over 65
feet and give double the amount of
water at considerably less than half
the cost of those installed by out
side parties.
, The efficiency and good showing Of
the plant cannot help but reflect
favorably upon the water board, who
have had the handling of Belding' s
water supply. This board composed
of +. w. Howard, A. s. Dimmick, and
+. III. Totten have looked after the
executive work OF the water system
for years and always TO the credit of
the city.
The capacity Of the two engines at
the works is 2,000.0 900 gallons per day.
II they were required TO work all OF
the time they would throw this num-
ber OF gallons OF water into the water
mains every twenty-four hours during
the year.
The power for doing this work is
furnished the engines from two large
boilers of one Hundred horse power