Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-25
LOCAL WATER u.
PLANT TO BE
OF THE BEST
|softening Plant Reaches
Height Of Perfection,
Engineer Says. NJ.
ST. Lou Great Falls and
Other Big Cities Have
Same Plant.

r.. A. Harbaugh, the engineer Of the
Pittsburgh Filter Manufacturing Co,
in charge of the work of installing the
new water ~softening plant al the
waterworks station, when called upon
by q reporter this morning, said:
IT was glad to see the warning is
sued by the board Of health and
would add thereto my request thai the
water be boiled rs a precautionary
measure solely, during the time while
the changes are being made in the
filtration plant; this is advisable only
from a precautionary standpoint TOE
at no time during the progress Of the
work will there be any contamination
of the water, nor will 1t be In any
sense dangerous or impure, but 1t Is
always best to be upon h safe side;
the alum which was used under the
former filtration system may have at
fected to some extent the water and
service pipes Of the system and when
the new soft water finds it's way
through those pipes they would to
some extent be cleansed and the
water might carry some d~iscoloratton
with the possibility Of impurities. 1t
Is in part to guard against such pos
sibilities that our specifications re-
quire a daily analysis Of the water
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test of the machinery"
Mr.. Harbaugh continued:
THE city of Grand Forks is to be
congratulated upon its new water
softening plant, as well as the changes
made. in the methods Of publication,
1.-THE new plant installed at Grand
Forks is modelled after similar plants
which experience has established as
the height Of perfection in water puri;
ication and water softening.
THE principles upon which the
newly installed water softening and
publication plant Is based were sug-
gested Yby Dean e. J.. Babcock of the
university in a report made to the
city council in the spring Of 1917 and
they were in complete harmony with
the principles controlling the ma.
chinery for that purpose of the Pitts.
burgh Filter Manufacturing Co., tc
which was awarded the contract.
Among other plants recently pu'
in upon plans identical with the Crane
Forks plant are Great Falls, Mont.
where the Pittsburgh Filter Manufac'
turing Co. have installed a water
filtration and 81 ftening plant with. tn,
capacity of: 5000, 900 gallons per day
been completed and the plant .ac
cepted; the machinery installed i
identical with the machinery installed
at Grand Forks save that it has
much greater capacity.
The present Toledo, Ohio, waite
filtration plant was constructed abou
ten years ago but about one year ag,
the Pittsburgh Filter Manufacturing
Co. installed its water softening ma
chinery and devices and that plan
has been in successful operation eve
since that time; this is a very larg
plant with many million gallons ca
lpacity daily and is one of the mode
plants Of the world.
, Tulsa, Okla, is another moder
!, plant which has installed the sam
, water softening system and has e1
Iperienced great satisfaction there
? with; in this plant the original dc
| signs called for a wet solution fee,
but after a more thorough investiga
ton and consideration the type of dr.
} solution feed installed at Grand Forl
was adopted by Tulsa.
THE st. Louis filtration plant is {
type identical with Grand Forl
save that it has not yet installed
: water softening plant; it is undo
9Econtemplation; the capacity Of I'll
plant is ,160. 600, 900 gallons Of watt
per "a hours. The water filtered :
the Mississippi river water and sati
factory results are attained. This
the largest mechanical filtration pIa,
in the world.
THE Minneapolis plant was all
installed by the Pittsburgh Fit.
Manufacturing Co., with Its m,
chanical filters identical with those i,
stalled at Grand Forks and Il
highest satisfaction has resulted: it
modelled along the same lines as IL
= st. Louis plant, but the water softer
Ing machinery has not yet been Il
stalled.
The city of Grand Forks is to |
congratulated upon its present Air,
fuon and water publication .pla,
which is OF the highest possible TN
and a fitting elimination to the
years Of earnest effort on behalf
our people for a pure and satisfacto
water supply"
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