The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-30

When the city commission met lasr
night in regular session with the mayor
and all the commissioners present W.
2. Anderson, the consulting engineer
! appeared before the meeting and mace
a verbal report Of what he has founr
in the examination Of the Henry House
creek proposition to give the city addi
tional water supply Mr.. Anderson was
favorably impressed with what he ha'
found and told the commission tina.
they could obtain an adequate water
supply from that source and that II
would be of most excellent quality
that all necessary for a city Of $4,000
population could be secured there q,
but little additional cost to the figure.
first made by City Engineer Watson
the chief additional expense being n
the 1G-inch pipe line which would y,
necessary instead Of a 12-inch as frs.
proposed. This, be said, wouid COS,
$4,000 per mile, or about S2O0.OO0 or
this cost he was certain about, but thr
other figures he said would be approx
mate, as the surveys had not been com
pleted, but a dam would cost. say $25
900, and perhaps more With the pur
chase of 200 acres of land, which he
would advise, and the right-of-way at
probably, a cost Of SIS per mile anr
contingent expenses which are always
attendant on such work, more than the
S22j,0 900 proposed would benecessary.
But this, Mr.. Anderson said, would pro
vide normal supply of 24OO 600 gal
Ions daily with a possible maximum of
8 100000 gallons which might be need
ed throughout sixty days of the year
He said the water would be carried di-
rectly to the pumps by gravity, with n
Z head at the pumps of perhaps 100 feet
He said it would be best to do this and
keep the present reservoir supply in
reserve, for the water in the dam now
while pure and wholesome, was muddy
and after using the pure water which
can be secured from Henry House
, creek the consumers would kick" il
then given muddy water.
As compared with ABOUT three square
!. miles for the present supply the Henry
4 House supply will come from an area OF
o nineteen square miles, and Hickory
more square miles The rainfall in
2, Ardmore during the past year has beer
:. 10 inches, while in the vicinity of Henry
;. House creek il has been about two feet
l. the fall all the time being greater there
than here. He said at the minimum
l, rainfall enough water for 100000 peo
e pie could be secured there. lie said one
& lG-inch pipe line would care for only
IS 40 900 people, and in case Of growth o
g population beyond that and it became
u necessary to impound more water, an
IS other dam could be built at small cos
d farther up Henry House creek, and an
n other still in another fork OF tina
stream when additional pipe line woul'
r be necessary; but this, he said, Is II
the future and need not be invested
n in now. lie said he was greatly pleased
% with what he had found and that tn
g water supply that could be obtaine'
there would be one of the best he knew
N Of He said there would be no cor
'e tamination Of the water and the suppr
d would prove to be one of the best II
u the country.
g A number Of citizens present aske
Is questions which were fully answere
er by Mr.. Anderson. He said he can hav
81 all the surveys made and a compier
detailed report ready in about tw
10 weeks, showing the exact cost.
SO The resolutions adopted by the Chan
ne ber of Commerce, the Rotary club an
ID the Lions club were read, requestin
that the election be postponed. Th
n mayor said he was in favor of pos
Is poning the election inasmuch as it ha
o. been requested by business men repr
lg senting all the business interests Of tn
De city. He said he did not want to divid
u the proposition, but that if it was nece
VI sary to postpone that relating to Il
u securing Of water that it would be be-
ry to postpone all of them and to vote G
'u- them sixty days from Feb. Z. He sa
'e the people had shown confidence in II
IN mayor and commissioners when the
es elected them and he thought the
,st
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