The frontiersman., 1952-08-21

system early last week to Arctic Plumbing and Heating Company of Fairbanks. The contractor be- gan work on the water system a few weeks ago in anticipation of the award.
 The local water system when completed will be comprised of two wells, an underground rein forced concrete reservoir with a capacity of 24,000 gallons, pro- vision for chlorination, and about eight miles of supply mains and distribution lines. The system is scheduled for completion within year, according to APW officials but the major portion is expected to be finished this fall.
 The new water system was designed by Thomas E. Bourne Associates, the engineering com- pany that designed the Interna- tional Airport at Anchorage. Working closely with the engin- eers was the water committee of the Common Council comprised of Hagen, Brown, and Mick. All details were approved by the Council after an exhaustive study that required nearly seven months of concentrated effort. Richard Demming did most of the local surveying as representative of the Anchorage office of Bourne As sociates, which is supervised by Engineer Irene Ryan. A test well was dug last fall on the Benson farm northwest of town by the engineers, who were advised by Frank Trainer of the U. s. Geo. logical Survey ground water division in Palmer. This well will be incorporated into the water system. A second well is to be dug under the control gallery which forms the center part of a 24O,- OO0-gallon underground reservoir. Excavation for the reservoir was completed last week on 4-acre tract purchased from Art Thomp- son. The reservoir site adjoins the well site on the Benson farm, To- cated about a quarter of mile north of the Pat Hemmer farm.
 Digging on the second we'll was in progress this week. This well will have an eight-inch casing (the first one had a six-inch cas- ing) and will be used as the pri- mary source of water for Palmer. The first we'll will be the stand by we'll. The Northern Drilling Company of Anchorage has been doing the drilling for the second well, as it did for the first. Next week the contractors will start laying forms for the reservoir concrete structure.
 A new access road to the wells and reservoir was built earlier this summer as south extension Art Thompson's farm.
 When completed the control gallery in the reservoir structure l will house chlorinator and met | CTS that will afford a measure of water used. The system will not 1 include fluoridation because the l equipment is too expensive at this time. Depending on public desires, a fluoridation injector may be installed at a later date. Also housed in the control gal lery will be one of the we'll pumps and standby generator to permit pumping during electri- cal power failures. V-phase cleo trical power was extended to the reservoir by MEA in June.
 A l4-inch transmission line will bring the water to Palmer. This line parallels the Coop water line at distance of 10 feet, pass ing through the Benson, Beylund, Eckert, and Bugge farms. It en- ters the city limits on Indepen- dence Avenue and joins a 10- inch distribution loop at Valley Street.
 This 10-inch pipeline will go down Valley Street to Airport Avenue. It goes down Airport Avenue turning north on Federal Street. On Coop Avenue it jogs west to Walker Street. The To- nch line runs north on Walker Street to the Anchorage-Palme