FILTRATION
The Princeton, Ill., Water Company is planning to install a filtration plant to filter the Patoka water used in Princeton.
The new filter plant at the Binghampton, N. Y., pumping station is practically finished and the pumps have been started.
Mayor Hannon, of Ironton, O., was recently informed by the State Board of Health that Engineer Van Buskirk, of the Board, would shortly visit Ironton to get samples of the water the city is now using.
At a meeting of the Cohoes, N. Y., Water Commissioners a report by Chemist Van Arnum on the filtration plant showed that an average of 5,900,000 gallons had been filtered daily during the last half of October and that the water was up to the usual good standards.
Filtered water will be flowing through the city mains in Jackson, Miss., in a few days, according to a statement by Water Superintendent Fewell. The installation of the filtration plant, the 24-inch main and the high-pressure pumps, together with auto fire apparatus, is expected to result in a decrease in insurance rates.
The secretary of the Ohio State Board of Health in a letter to the Marysville health officer and the Marysville Light and Power Company issued an order to have the company remove a six-inch main from Millcreek. which connects with the pumping station, in order to prevent the possibility of the discharge of creek water into the city water mains, and that no such connections be made in the future
Mayor Huls, of Logan. O., has received from the State Board of Health a report on the city water which says: “Samples of water collected from the public supply by your health officer, October 27, 1914. at the request of a representative of this department, have been analyzed, and reported upon by our laboratory. These samples indicate that the water was at the time of sampling of good sanitary quality, and safe for domestic use.”
