Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-04


inches during the entire summer.
The intake pipe runs out 500 feet into
the lake and drafts the water from
depth of 80 feet. We can draft 10
feet of water from the pond with the
present piping plan here at this gate
house, but if connected into
straight pipe line we could draft the
entire 80 feet.
Every bit of the shore clear to the
high water mark has been cleared
and gone over, until you can see for
yourself that it looks more like an
artificial pond on some great estate.
Not a house is in sight of the pond.
the district having bought and now
owning the whole watershed. The
former houses were torn down, so
that the pond and its surroundings
are just as nature would have thehi.
If YOU can find a pond mile long
and three quarters of mile wide
that looks any better, show it to me.
And. the water is the finest ever"
Agreeing perfectly with the pump
| ing station superintendent as to the
! fine appearance of things at the
pond, the K j. man said he was
himself perfectly satisfied with con-
ditions and appearances and the re-
turn trip was begun. The skies,
! overcast all the morning, then ap-
parently took notice of the low water
and began sending down rather
liberal addition, so long as it lasted.
! The pumping station reached, I'm
Gle John turned on the power and
resumed pumping, explaining each
operation as he went along and say
! ing:
Now, here is what causes all the
! talk about the water. This station
is on the shore of Lake Cobbossee-
contce and the moment these pumps
are started people begin saying
They're pumping from Cobbossee.
That is not true, we are pumping az
/ Cobbossee not from it, and are
pumping simply because the Garlic
ton water has become SO low that it
will not run into the city by gravity
as fast as the people are using it.
| These pumps are started to force
that water along faster to send in
enough to meet the demand. Not an
ounce of Cobbosseecontee water has
been through the pipes for 10 yeais
and only three times in the 10 years
l have been here.
This station was placed in COM
mission before the pipe line was
completed to Carleton and ! had to
pump from Cobbossee. Then 10 and
II years ago we had severe dry spells
and the pond did not fill. SO that we
had to pump from Cobbossee. Ten
years ago was the last time.
1T is necessary now to run the
pumps about nine hours day,
! which means that we force along into
Augusta about 2.2500C0 more gallons
of Carleton pond water than would
run in by gravity. Back in the dry
est part of this ! last summer l
pumped as much as IA hours a day
and forced in 2S50,000 gallons daily.
Until we get rain enough to raise
| the pond, we will have to keep on
pumping to meet the water demand
in the city. When the pond is high
enough. it will run in on its own ac-
count, without assistance.
Now there is the whole story
about Carleton pond water. Augusta
is getting nothing and will get moth
ing but the water from Carleton.
| Give it to 'em strong, for my tele-
phone is ringing so often with in
quiries if we are taking water from
Cobbossee that it interferes with my
work.
| And, promising Uncle John" that
we would tell the anxious people just
as he had told it to us and as we had
seen it, the final lap of the home trip
was made, in pouring rain but
which didn't last long enough to
raise the water in Carleton more
than a millionth of an inch. Garlic
ton pond water cannot be excelled.
Try it.