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Water Production & Recovery (Wooster, Ohio) (view source)
Revision as of 08:16, 8 September 2021
, 08:16, 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 very first question was: What do we want water for, for fire or domestic purposes, in short, for what sort of water must we make our search? If the city's present water supply were used for no other purpose than the extinguishment of fires, the Bloomington reservoir would have been brim full and the [[Reddick dam]] spillway overflowing all last summer and any search for a further supply a useless extravagance, in fact, the well in the Second ward, with its present maximum daily pumpage of about 40,000 gallons would furnish Wooster with fire protection water enough for years to come. It is easily seen, therefoere (sic), that a shortage of fire water should not have been Wooster's chief difficulty, even though Reddick's dam stood empty all summer, and the Bloomington supply was shut nearly off from two-thirds of the city. Why, therefore, this shortage? What caused the exasperation of so many scorched, thirsty and dust-___inded citizens last summer? The secretary of the Board of Water Works Trustees informs us that there are over 300 taps connected to the city water mains, and used in furnishing water to the citizens for boilers and other manufacturing purposes, for power water motors, for lawn and street sprinkling, for laundries, bath rooms and water closets, and for many other and more strictly domestic purposes.
The very first question was: What do we want water for, for fire or domestic purposes, in short, for what sort of water must we make our search? If the city's present water supply were used for no other purpose than the extinguishment of fires, the Bloomington reservoir would have been brim full and the [[Reddick dam]] spillway overflowing all last summer and any search for a further supply a useless extravagance, in fact, the well in the Second ward, with its present maximum daily pumpage of about 40,000 gallons would furnish Wooster with fire protection water enough for years to come. It is easily seen, therefoere (sic), that a shortage of fire water should not have been Wooster's chief difficulty, even though Reddick's dam stood empty all summer, and the Bloomington supply was shut nearly off from two-thirds of the city. Why, therefore, this shortage? What caused the exasperation of so many scorched, thirsty and dust-___inded citizens last summer? The secretary of the Board of Water Works Trustees informs us that there are over 300 taps connected to the city water mains, and used in furnishing water to the citizens for boilers and other manufacturing purposes, for power water motors, for lawn and street sprinkling, for laundries, bath rooms and water closets, and for many other and more strictly domestic purposes.
Here, then, is what causes the demand for more water, the private consumption for manufacturing and domestic purposes. A demand in many ways far more important than that for fire protection, and the one demand that has caused our supply to fall short every dry season. In view of this fact it may be well asked what right, legal or moral, have our water trustees to endanger the property of the city and citizens by selling water for other purposes, if the present plant was entrusted to their care for fire protection alone, as some citizens seem inclined to maintain? Your Commissioners have, therefore, assumed it as a fact that a bountiful and wholesome supply of water for domestic purposes is what is needed, and have conducted their investigations with this fact in view. Considerable time has been spent in visiting and carefully examining the various sources of supply within a reasonable distance of the city. In each case a careful investigation was made of the quality and quantity of each supply visited, both as to the water sheds of the surface streams and as to the gathering grounds of the springs and underground waters. The springs south of Wooster, known as the Albright, Welker, McKinney, Taggart and Herman springs, at first sight seemed to be in the aggregate a very desirable source of supply, but further examination and consideration made it certain their combined flow was only sufficient for the present, with no possibility of increase for the future.
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