Improvement in the Source of Water Supply at Winfield, Kansas.
The supply for the water-works system at Winfield, Kansas, was formerly taken from a well on the west side of the Walnut river. This well, however, being supplied directly from the river was subject to all the contamination which the parent stream received from Timber Creek which empties into it but one hundred and fifty yards above.
When the water-works plant changed hands, rather more than a year ago, the first move was in the direction of securing a supply that would be above reproach. Several months were spent in testing for a ground water supply. This having been determined to be out of the question, the second move was to secure it from the river, but above all possible source of sewage contamination, and where the water is of most excellent quality, excepting perhaps the large percentage of carbonates of lime and magnesia, as shown by the following analysis :
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