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Water Production & Recovery (Wooster, Ohio) (view source)
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, 08:36, 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
Without taking into account its liability to failure by freezing in winter, its present unfitness for domestic use without thorough and expensive mechanical filtration, and its probably present and certain future dangerous contamination by sewage, this source of supply may be considered important for quantity and accessibility.
Without taking into account its liability to failure by freezing in winter, its present unfitness for domestic use without thorough and expensive mechanical filtration, and its probably present and certain future dangerous contamination by sewage, this source of supply may be considered important for quantity and accessibility.
Your Commissioners carefully examined into this project, including in its investigation the possible locations for a pumping station, the races, dams, and the stream and its water-shed, to a point beyond the village of Apple Creek.
While there is no doubt but that the quantity flowing over the surface is sufficient for the city's present and probable future needs for some time to come there are very grave doubts as to its present purity and a considerable degree of certainty that it will in the near future, be dangerously contaminated by the increasing population living within its water-shed area.
It is frequently said that running water purifies itself in a certain distance; this is only partly true, and we find it becoming less true just as we learn more about hygiene and bacteriology.
The germs of some very dangerous diseases can be exposed to freezing for weeks, and then carried by icy cold water an indefinitely great distance, only to spring into full and destructively vigorous life when eventually lodged within the system of some weak babe, rundown woman, or dyspeptic or malaria-enfeebled man; and small running streams such as Apple Creek are frequently polluted all along their course.
In this connection the history of the
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