The Purification of the Water Supply of Steelton, Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Purification of the Water Supply of Steelton, Pennsylvania Original water-works. - The original water-works plant was built by the Steelton Home Water Company, and was purchased by the borough in the latter part of 1899 for $150 since which time improvements to the intake, pumping station, and reservoir, and exten sions of the street mains swelled the total cost to $223 000, on January lst, 1906, of which $145 000 was the cost of the street mains, $38 000 the cost of the reservoir, and about $40 000 the cost of the intake and pumping station. The plant, at that time, obtained its water from the Susquehanna River through a 16-in. Intake pipe reaching out approximately 1 400 ft. From the pumping station, to Within about 150 ft. Of the shore of Stuckers' Island. The original supply had been derived from wells dug on that island, but in a comparatively short time it became impossible to keep up the supply from the wells, and a pipe was extended about 50 ft. Out into the river from the most southerly well, the water being then drawn from the river to the Wells and back to the pumping station through the 16-in. Pipe. Sub~ sequently, owing to the silting up of the wells and their inaccessibility during high water in the river, a section of the 16-in pipe was taken out at a point about 150 ft. East of the island, allowing the water to enter the pipe from the river direct, it was in this condition on Jan uary 1st, 1907. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.