WELLS
Most of the wells which are the source of the new water supply of Camden, N. J.—they are seventy in number, about 200 feet apart, and average 100 feet each in depth, with an estimated yield of over 1,000,000 gallons a day—are bored through a white clay bed. This guarantees against sewage or surface water pollution. Six feet below the surface an eightinch well-head and piece of pipe are put in. All the wells connect with the main sections, of which there are two thirtytwo inch pipes discharging into a receiving cistern thirty feet in diameter and forty feet deep.
De Kalb, Ill., is about to sink a new well for its water supply.
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