Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-23
PUTNAM

Having received from the common council Monday evening authority to use ss5, ,0O0 of the funds of the water depart ment for the installation of a modern Alteration system for the city's water | supply, the board of water commissioners | win go ahead at once to complete ar rangements for the work, which will be l started. it is now expected. some time in the early fall.
 Installation of the apparatus authoriz- | ed purchased will give Putnam a modern and thoroughly safe ilteration system, l assuring the people of this city a wholesome supply of water and in ample quantity.
 It has been felt for some time that the present Alteration system did not measure up to present day standards and that 1t was essential that action be taken with view to improvement Engineers who appeared at the council meeting explain ed in detail just what 1t is proposed to do and the council gave its authority to the water commissioners to so ahead with the work, using water department funds
 Under the Altering system that is to be
 installed all three of the present filter beds will be used. The new apparatus will go into one of the beds. This appa-
 ratus includes a series of baffIes about
 which tho water will flow and series
 of mechanical devices and combination
 of chemicals, including soda, which will remove all harmful bacteria from. the
 water before it passes into. pool from
 which 1t will be pumped into the system for use by the people, The new system | is regarded as the best yet devised for protecting a city's water supply and as l installed here will have daily capacity
 of 100000 gallons, which is nearly | twice as much water as Putnam Is now
 using daily, so there will be ample mar l gin to meet needs resulting from the ', growth of the city for year to come. Even in case of fires causing a heavy drain the water supply the Altering sys- tenn will Dcotect against the possibility of
 Tiled or muddy water getting into the mains
 The common council also received a petition asking that arrangements be made for connecting the sewage system of hte Day Kimball. hospital with the city sewer system The petition was present ed by Byron D. Bugbee, who explained 1 the pressing need of carrying out the i work asked for, and said the hospital 4 stood ready to pay one-quarter of the cost, estimated at $5.oo0, so the hospitals
 share would be s1250. These, however
 are approximate figures
 Disposing of the hospital, sewage, oi , which there are very large quantities has
 become serious problem for the officials
 of the institution. They have expert.
 mented with various system of handling , it, such as digging cess-pools and tn. 5 like, but all have been found made quate and the trustees finally have be come obligated to request the city coun ell to take action. So many methods O disposing of the sewage have been triet
 that the grounds on parts of the hos } pitsl property are becoming saturated and no means is left open but to hay, the city act. The hospital, on it's own
 account, has tried to secure rights Q 0 way to build a sewer to the QuinebauI d river, but has been unable to obtain them - so has turned to the city which dread l. holds rights of way over which rns ..we t line can be run.
 ' Action has become imperative. Tn ' hospital is filled to its capacity. practic s ally all of the time and the point has beel II reached where the sewage can no long
 CT be taken care of other tthan throug , a regular sewer system.
 The common council has appointed ,, committee to make a study of the ques - tion and instructed the committee [ - report at the next meeting of the body e A suggested route for the new sewe l. is down what Is known as the Rive e road and into the Quinebaug river abou l. opposite where the city's sewer syster T empties into the stream. However, tn
 route is merely incidental if promr
 solution can be found for what has be come pressing matter.
 r, At his home near WhIte's CrossinI O south of this city, Tuesday afternoon t funeral services were held for Charle E. P. Shepard. The services, conducted b IS Rev. J. W. Carter, pastor of the Metf n odist Episcopal church at AttawAugai 7, was attended by numbers of relative .i and friends of MT. Shepard. Burial ": ,a in Grove street cemetery.
 Mir. Shepard, native of Pennsylvani
 became suddenly and seriously i'll abo, = a. m. Saturday morning and die s. about 5.S0. For the past year and .s half he has been engaged as boss pain ~ CT for the Attawaugan company. E s- leaves his wife, two daughters, Mir n- Thomas McDermott and Mrs John Levc t. of this city, a sister resident in Wo
 cester and brother who is a propriet A of hotel at Nazareth, Pa.
 re This (wednesday) morning at ca at standard time, 1t is expected that neI lI m bers of the Windham County Farmer '. association will flock into this city fro ss the Is towns of the county to make req, hs for the annual field trip of the organiz rls tion, which will start at the Mant g- farmSof E. c. Rogers in the Gary distr he of Putnam. At this farm, one of t It. finest in eastern Connecticut, the viEitc ,e- will have an opportunity to see sol Zet splendid crops and one of the finest her
 of pure bred Holstein-F -Friesian cat he owned in Southern New England as " ew as one of the finest farm plants ad miles around County Agent Davis s: It Tuesday that he hopes that the alter m ance at the field day meeting, whl 71ll will take those who go through varie me towns of the county, will surpsss the f attendance of last year.
 sot Putnana's new eombinatisn ladder q = chemical truck for the fire department = Packard, will be delivered here some ti Inc between September 15 and October 1. ] ,de truck Is now at Providence and .rs work of outhtting 1t with ladders . in other equipment Is practically compl. Ind The painting also will be done in Pre- for dence and this particular work will !. done in time to permit of delivery of the truck in this city some time during ose period mention. Members of the CT committee of the common council h lny { --------- pc stage the first bin some time in Sept
 Der.