Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-01-23
new PLANS ACCEPTED FOR
WAUSEON'S WATER SUPPLY
Letter From Chief Engineer of State Board-Wes Low
No Water Available At Present
Officials Get Busy-Pe0ples
Bank Buy Bonds

of supply being frozen up and fur
thermore there is definite pro-
| hibition of the State Board of
Health against feeding the wells
with unfltered ditch water as was
done last year in the emergency.
There are a number of points 10
consider besides the household and
drinking water supply, these may
be taken care of by private wells or
cisterns; but private or "neighbor-
hood" wells or cisterns do not FUR
nish water supply in case of nre
neither can they be depended upon
for purposes of sanitation ana
these things are essential. Facto-
ries and public buildings must have
water. The lack of a reliable anu
adequate water supply has ana
does put an effectual check upon
the growth of Wauseon in an in
dustrial way or any material ex-
pansion in the way of building. It
mas been said that "Wauseon has
a black eye" because of it's water
supply. The average citizen who
mas any public spirit whatever is
demanding that the ssBlack Eye"
be removed if there is any possible
chance of doing so.
Last year in perfect good faith
1 the citizens of Wauseon voted
bond issue of $175,0O0 to meet the
emergency. Up to the time of the
writing of this article not a single
dollars worth of those bonds have
been sold. Now with a practical
plan for giving the village the
water supply SO essential to its
very life, adopted by the board
after careful consideration of
other possible plans, approved by
the Chief Engineer of the State
: Board. It seems from the point OF
: view of just an average citizen
! tax payer that it is time for the
officials to get busy and Do some
thing. There has been quite enough
: of 'horse play" petty politcis and
still smaller personal chickering's
. and assumptions with whatever
:, KS been thrown in to cause
7 unnecessary delay.
e We don't care a whoop whose
) prestige is upheld or over thrown
e IN this matter or whose opinion is
e vindieated; what we do care for IS
: that this essential and fundament-
:, al need of Wauseon shall be SUP
ri piled in the most economical and
Vi at the same time the most efficient
e and dependable manner.
We have confidence in the brains
o and integrity and common sense
: : of the Board elected to attend to
these affairs and we expect them
e to put it over. On the other hand
z we have no patience with the op-
j structionists who give the impress
/ sion that they hold to the belief
e that theirs are the only brains
! capable of handling public affairs
= In Justice to Mr.. W. J. Sherman
: !. the engineer it should be stated
that he has not nor will he receive
any fee for the work done in pre-
pairing plans and specifications
for the so-called Turkey-foot Re
servoir, east of town which was
is found impracticable.
It should be further said that the
Is officials of the village have demon
in strated their readiness to act wher
lg they are assured that the best in
al terests of the village are to bt
t. conserved and since the foregoing
lie article was begun $4,000 Oh ths
er bonds have been purchased by ths
to Peoples State Bank making it pos
rt sible to proceed to secure the site
1e advertise for bids on the work o
Of CONSTRUCTING the reservoir am
re- pumping station. The Bank is de
Nv n,onstrating it's value to the com
munity and also the public splrI
m of the directorate in taking car
ce of this bond issue.