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Water Production & Recovery (Wooster, Ohio) (view source)
Revision as of 12:38, 8 September 2021
, 12:38, 8 September 2021→BETTER WATER WORKS: WHAT WOOSTER WANTS AND CAN WELL HAVE; Report of Water Extension Commission to the City Council, Wooster, Oh. Nov. 19, 1894
The Killbuck Valley, and in fact, the valley of Clear creek also, was undoubtedly one of those ploughed out of the solid foundation rocks by the slow, majestic sweep of an arm of the great ice cap, thousands of feet thick, which one covered nearly of the entire northern half of the United States and Canada. As the thousands of years of this long polar winter crept on, the ice cap grew thicker and the glacial arm longer, until extremity touched the Ohio river. Then came the arctic spring and the ice cap began to melt. Torrents raged down every hill-side and filled every valley. Ricks, huge boulders, gravel, sand, mud and broken materials of every kind were swept down the stream in enormous quantities, scouring deeper some of the valleys and damming others up until the accumulated weight of the waters gathered behind the obstacle broke and swept away like a Johnstown ____ a million times magnified. While the ice cap was melting occasional quiescent periods came to the valleys, when the waters were perhaps only partially dammed back, at which times layers and strata of fine sand and clay were deposited over the deeper and thicker layers of gravel and shale detritus that had been previously washed in by the torrent streams.
The Killbuck Valley, and in fact, the valley of Clear creek also, was undoubtedly one of those ploughed out of the solid foundation rocks by the slow, majestic sweep of an arm of the great ice cap, thousands of feet thick, which one covered nearly of the entire northern half of the United States and Canada. As the thousands of years of this long polar winter crept on, the ice cap grew thicker and the glacial arm longer, until extremity touched the Ohio river. Then came the arctic spring and the ice cap began to melt. Torrents raged down every hill-side and filled every valley. Ricks, huge boulders, gravel, sand, mud and broken materials of every kind were swept down the stream in enormous quantities, scouring deeper some of the valleys and damming others up until the accumulated weight of the waters gathered behind the obstacle broke and swept away like a Johnstown ____ a million times magnified. While the ice cap was melting occasional quiescent periods came to the valleys, when the waters were perhaps only partially dammed back, at which times layers and strata of fine sand and clay were deposited over the deeper and thicker layers of gravel and shale detritus that had been previously washed in by the torrent streams.
So read the geological history of the valley of the Killbuck as written on its rocks and stones. From the geological section of the oil well on the valley's edge, as shown on Plate I, facing this page, it will be noticed that, of the foundation rocks, the uppermost 150 or 200 feet contain only soft, brittle, and easily crushed sand and shale rocks. It is therefore highly probably from the general width of the Killbuck Valley, for five miles above Wooster, that the glacial arm, which formed it ploughed its way through all these loose rocks clear down to the hard fine grained sandstones about at the 200-feet level. Filled up, as the valley was subsequently, it would seem likely that the filling of gravel, shale-bits, sand and clay should probably be not less than 50 feet and possibly 150 feet deep. This tilling contains the supply of water your Commissioners believe to be the best for accessibility, quantity and quality to be found near Wooster. This vast bed of gravel is tilled nearly to the surface with water and while the water of the Killbuck's surface stream is turbid and muddy, then which had passed down through these tiltering beds of fine sand and clay is crystal-clear and of a degree of purity seldom equaled and never excelled by the finest and purest of living springs. Not only is this water pure at present, but it is protected from future contamination by the fact that the valley itself, on account of the annual overflow, is not a desirable location for either farm or town building sites and it this affords a greater area free from human habitation than can be found elsewhere in the county.
====Water! Water!! Water!!!====
====Water! Water!! Water!!!====