Atlantic City Using Less Water
Atlantic City, N. J., used 1,000,000 gallons of water a day less this summer than last summer, according to a statement issued by Superintendent Lincoln Van Gilder, of the City Commission. The reasons assigned for the diminished consumption are that leakage in old mains, now abandoned, does not now exist; less water used by contractors this year and less used by city sprinklers, due to a wet July. Superintendent Van Gilder announced that water was now coming from the Absecon works through the new 48-inch main and the wood stave main across the meadows. Regarding the matter of bands of the wood stave main rotting through the action of salt water. Superintendent Van Gilder declared there was no necessity of immediate action.
