Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1928-06-07
COUNCIL VOTES TO BUILD
STEEL TANK
ON THE TOP OF BATES HILL
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rent income, they expect to receive
In July and August. for bills sent out
In advance. about $50. 900 more. To
this is TO be added income from few
customers who pay monthly about
six or seven hundred a month.
Alderman Dean then stated that the
committee feel that it is possible to
pay the $4,000 out of earnings OF
the department for this year without
tightening them too much" He said he
believed the water commissioners are
agreeable TO help by keeping their
bills down as much as possible. 1t
might be necessary. he said, TO run
a thousand or two into the 1929 in
come.
eThe committee recommends" he
said. that the water commissioners
be instructed to go through with the
steel tank on Bates Hill, and to lay
a twelve inch pipe to Mechanics
street to connect with the six inch
main there. The committee knows
this is not a good hitch-up."
He said il is thought that if this can
be done without asking the citizens
for any money then the citizens Will
be willing TO appropriate S35,O 900 or
1000 for a new pipe on Mechanics
street. School street, Front and Pom
fret streets, to the sixteen inch main
at the corner of Church street. He
estimated this pipe line will cost APP
proximately $4,000. eve think this
the best thing to to-" he said.
Alderman Dean then spoke from
a different angle. stating that when
he first sat in the council and asked
regarding the water situation the
mayor said he did not know what
the water commissioners had done.
The water commissioners were re-
quested to appear and state what they
had done. When they appeared and
were asked what had been done under
the vote in July they said that moth
ing had been done.
At this point letters were read from
a concern that makes steel tanks
stating that they had received con-
tract from the water commissioners
which they had signed and returned
with a certified check for $1,000 re-
questing that the water commissioners
have IL signed. The concern intimat-
ed that they considered they had en-
tered into a binding contract and had
started work and would look to the
city for expense incurred.
A similar letter was read from
concern that lays pipes stating that
they intended to lay the pipe or to
get their profit.
at looks as If they had done some
thing" said the alderman
After we asked the water COM
missioners." SAID Alderman DEAN
what they had done and they told
Us nothing and then TO have these let
terS come in, puts us in bad light.
In Fairness
CAT council meeting February Is,
the water commissioners were asked
what had been done under the vote
OF the city meeting authorizing them
to proceed with the work east OF the
Little river. To this Mr.. Gilman re-
Piled that no contracts had been sign
ed. That the commissioners had Sc
cured bids and had notified the low
est bidders to furnish bonds 70 pro.
perly carry out the work. This had
been done. About this time the
council voted to secure the opinion
OF Engineer Saville, so the board mao
gone no further.-This is quoted IN
fairness TO the water commission
ers.-Ed.).
Vote to Build
After asking Alderman Dean II ne
meant that the tank could be built
without asking for an appropriation
and receiving an affirmative answer,
Alderman Chadwick made a motion
that the council instruct the water
commissioners, through the clerk, that
they proceed to erect a tank on Bates
Hill Of 100000 gallons capacity
and connect 1t with a pipe at Mechan-
les and Overlook streets. There was
q roll call vote and the motion was
unanimously carried
II was voted that the water com
mittee be empowered 20 give che
water commissioners proper and nee
essary Instructions