THE ITHACA WATER.

THE ITHACA WATER.

伤寒流行在伊萨卡,希望将soon disappear under the measures that are being taken to stamp it out. The University of Cornell is supplying such students as have stayed up with spring water, and the local board of health has caused it to be regarded as a misdemeanor, to be punished as such, for any one to drink unboiled water from the pipes laid down in the city, or to serve it to others to drink. Besides these precautions, the university trustees have furnished the city authorities with $150,000 to be at once expended on the building of a modern filtering plant, which shall purify the water supplied by the local water company to the city and place it beyond suspicion. T he sources of that supply are Buttermilk and Six Mile creek, and it is the latter which is the larger of the two and the more abundantly charged with the diseasebearing germs. The university campus is bounded by two creeks, Cascadilla, whose water, though less impure than that of either of the two already mentioned. is not used by the city at all—nor by the university—whose campus, as well as Sage college, in whose dormitories the women students are housed, have been supplied tip to the present time from the other, the Fall creek, whose pumping station is now idle. That this water (although temporarily not used) is not unwholesome is proved from the fact that none of the women students have been stricken with the disease. It has lately, however, been subjected to condensing by the authorities, which, of course, has tended to ward off the epidemic. The slow sand filtration system will be adopted, and there will probably be bitilt from five to eight filter beds, of which two can he held in reserve. The plant will be roofed over. The watersheds of the various creeks will also he thoroughly cleaned up, and increased storage and pressure may possibly he afforded by building more dams. The Ithaca Water company had already started building one of enormous size at the mouth of a gorge up Six Mile creek and a mile distant from the city limits. The city authorities, however, with the remembrance of the Johnstown Hoed in their minds, stopped progress upon it, and it does not seem as if it would be completed. It is at this spot on the Six Mile creek that the Italian laborers, who were employed on the work, and for whom were erected rooming and sleeping places, which were said to have been supplied with excellent latrines, lavatories, and the like, were quartered, and to their filthy habits is attributed the outbreak of the fever. Another proposition for a wholesome source of supply is to build two dams and install steam pumps. Of the dams one would be at, or near the site selected for the large dam already mentioned; the other, at a natural site possibly two miles up the stream. It is thought that these two dams could afford sufficient storage to supply the city during the dry season. As soon as the filtration plant is finished and has beenthoroughly tested, all the old pipes and mains will be thoroughly flushed out with filtered water, and the water will he examined daily by the university chemists. With municipal ownership now insured by Monday’s vote, the source of supply may be lake Cayuga, at the head of which Ithaca 0 built; or the present supply may be filtered; or artesian wells may he driven. The last is the most acceptable plan, first, because the wells can he sunk at once, and the long delay of waiting till the filter plant is erected, and the still longer time required for building the Cayuga system would thus be avoided. It is also pointed out that the Buttermilk and Six Mile creeks, whose infected waters have caused the fatal epidemic, discharge into lake Cayuga. as also does the sewer, the pollution from which many citizens do not think can he sufficiently removed by filtration to render the water safe to drink. The experience of Chicago liefore the crib was built far out in lake Michigan is quoted, as showing that the water from lake Giyuga must be collected several miles below the inlet and quite beyond the reach of the sewage which is carried out hv the south winds. Whatever flow there is of the lake water is towards the point of collection, and it must not be forgotten that, although today there may he little sewage in the lake, factories and other sources of pollution will spring up along the shore, and grow with the growth of Ithaca itself and other large towns on the lake. Hence, the artesian system, even although the water may lie hard, is the most popular, and this, all the more because there are several such wells flowing in Ithaca—one. 200.000 gallons daily. If the proposed new wells were sunk to the east of Ithaca in the Freeville section, an ample supply of pure water would be furnished the city from a height of 200 feet above the campus of the University of Cornell, and pumping expenses would he saved by the installation of a gravity system.

伤寒流行在伊萨卡,希望将soon disappear under the measures that are being taken to stamp it out. The University of Cornell is supplying such students as have stayed up with spring water, and the local board of health has caused it to be regarded as a misdemeanor, to be punished as such, for any one to drink unboiled water from the pipes laid down in the city, or to serve it to others to drink. Besides these precautions, the university trustees have furnished the city authorities with $150,000 to be at once expended on the building of a modern filtering plant, which shall purify the water supplied by the local water company to the city and place it beyond suspicion. T he sources of that supply are Buttermilk and Six Mile creek, and it is the latter which is the larger of the two and the more abundantly charged with the diseasebearing germs. The university campus is bounded by two creeks, Cascadilla, whose water, though less impure than that of either of the two already mentioned. is not used by the city at all—nor by the university—whose campus, as well as Sage college, in whose dormitories the women students are housed, have been supplied tip to the present time from the other, the Fall creek, whose pumping station is now idle. That this water (although temporarily not used) is not unwholesome is proved from the fact that none of the women students have been stricken with the disease. It has lately, however, been subjected to condensing by the authorities, which, of course, has tended to ward off the epidemic. The slow sand filtration system will be adopted, and there will probably be bitilt from five to eight filter beds, of which two can he held in reserve. The plant will be roofed over. The watersheds of the various creeks will also he thoroughly cleaned up, and increased storage and pressure may possibly he afforded by building more dams. The Ithaca Water company had already started building one of enormous size at the mouth of a gorge up Six Mile creek and a mile distant from the city limits. The city authorities, however, with the remembrance of the Johnstown Hoed in their minds, stopped progress upon it, and it does not seem as if it would be completed. It is at this spot on the Six Mile creek that the Italian laborers, who were employed on the work, and for whom were erected rooming and sleeping places, which were said to have been supplied with excellent latrines, lavatories, and the like, were quartered, and to their filthy habits is attributed the outbreak of the fever. Another proposition for a wholesome source of supply is to build two dams and install steam pumps. Of the dams one would be at, or near the site selected for the large dam already mentioned; the other, at a natural site possibly two miles up the stream. It is thought that these two dams could afford sufficient storage to supply the city during the dry season. As soon as the filtration plant is finished and has beenthoroughly tested, all the old pipes and mains will be thoroughly flushed out with filtered water, and the water will he examined daily by the university chemists. With municipal ownership now insured by Monday’s vote, the source of supply may be lake Cayuga, at the head of which Ithaca 0 built; or the present supply may be filtered; or artesian wells may he driven. The last is the most acceptable plan, first, because the wells can he sunk at once, and the long delay of waiting till the filter plant is erected, and the still longer time required for building the Cayuga system would thus be avoided. It is also pointed out that the Buttermilk and Six Mile creeks, whose infected waters have caused the fatal epidemic, discharge into lake Cayuga. as also does the sewer, the pollution from which many citizens do not think can he sufficiently removed by filtration to render the water safe to drink. The experience of Chicago liefore the crib was built far out in lake Michigan is quoted, as showing that the water from lake Giyuga must be collected several miles below the inlet and quite beyond the reach of the sewage which is carried out hv the south winds. Whatever flow there is of the lake water is towards the point of collection, and it must not be forgotten that, although today there may he little sewage in the lake, factories and other sources of pollution will spring up along the shore, and grow with the growth of Ithaca itself and other large towns on the lake. Hence, the artesian system, even although the water may lie hard, is the most popular, and this, all the more because there are several such wells flowing in Ithaca—one. 200.000 gallons daily. If the proposed new wells were sunk to the east of Ithaca in the Freeville section, an ample supply of pure water would be furnished the city from a height of 200 feet above the campus of the University of Cornell, and pumping expenses would he saved by the installation of a gravity system.