Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-04-10
A DREAM
COMES TRUE


have wished for, earnestly desired, an
dreamed of potable water Drink
able water. Yes, water suitable fc
drinking purposes. For years, Cour
Gil after Council have been confronte
with the same perplexing question
How can we furnish our city with pur
clean water? Where can we go t
get such water without mourning a.
enormous expense?
SeSeal attempts have been mad
to find such water Many thousand
of dollars have been expended by pfc
ceding councils, each in an earnes
desire to supply this great need; eacl
hoping to find pure clean water anc
to be able to supply it to the citizens
of our city by the expenditure of Z
reaSonable amount of money.
Up to the time the present Council
took office the city records show that
approximately twenty-three thousand
dollars have been expended in such
prior attempts, and yet, we still had
dirty, impure, non-potable city water
The fact that we had dirty water goes
without question as every citizen
knows the statement to be fact. The
fact that we lad impure, non-potable
water is established by the fact that
en- or about the 28th day Of April, 1917,
the State Board of Health issued its
order condemning our City water for
drinking purposes and ordering the
City Officials to either proceed to OBJ
tain potable water, and stating that
upon failure so to do the state board
of health would proceed to put in a
water system for us.
h Shortly after the issuance of the
e3aid order, the council conceived the
idea of digging the new wells from
which we are now. obtaining our city
water. The reasons they gave for be-
heving these plans would work out are
briefly as follows:
FIRST: The wells near the loca-
tion of our present city wells were
producing pure, clean and potable
water
SECOND: By putting the wells
where they are now, it would save
a part of the lift, provided of course,
we did not, have to go too deep for
water; and which condition later prov
ed to be a fact and which is amply
proven by the fact that our present
pumps are now working against fifty
five pounds pressure as compared
against sixty-eight pounds pressure
at the old mill plants.
THIRD: By placing the wells
whera tkey are now located and by
pumping into the water main where it
passes them il would increase the eff
cheney of the pumps by decreasing the
number of right angles in the pipe
line between the pump and the reser-
, G---c7 clciraing that each 1
right angle greatly decreased the eff
ficiency of the pumps by increasing
the friction. He explained that the
efficiency of the pumps then in use
was very low because there were some
eight right angles III the water main
between the pumps and the reservoir;
and that the efficiency of the new
pumps would be quite high because
there would be only two right angles
in the water main between the new
pumps and the reservoir.
FOURTH; That by the said de-
crease in pressure and said increase in
,-ge would be able thereby
10 greatly Grease the cost of pump
ing our city water. This has proven
to be true by the fact that it now re-
quires only seven horse power to put
M hundred and twenty-five gallons
oi water per minute in the reservoir
from our new wells while it required
nineteen horse power to put the same
quantity of water per minute in the
from the old mill plant.
The results you all kniw. We now
nave clean, pure and potable water.
Water that meets with thevapproval of
he state board fhealth. Water that
should be the pride of every citizen.
Water that we are not ashamed tol
recommend to any and every person
Who visits Payette either temporarily {
,r as q prospective homeseeker; even
he railroad company removed the lc
sign in the depot and is !
yoing to connect up with city water t
10 that the travelling public may drink t
If this wonderful water.
The total cost of the construction, 4
,uuipment and housing of these wells 8
o the City of Payette was the sum of Q
;3, ,e4624 which is approximately what t
t would cost annually to maintain a
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