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Sunday, October 17, 2021

As Last Resort, Henderson to Use Water Drawn From Lake Where City Sewarage System Empties, Oct. 17, 1921

Drought Closes Establishments. . . Gross Consumption in Henderson Reduced from 500,000 to 80,000 Gallons Per Day

Henderson, Oct. 17—With service withdrawn from all industrial establishments of whatever kind and with the gross consumption reduced to only 80,000 gallons a day from a normal of 500,000 gallons, prospects today were that the city’s meager supply of water, almost completely wiped out by a drought of nearly four months, could be stretched into several days more. A large spring emptying into the lake from which the supply is drawn is still running at its normal rate while a small volume of water is being pumped in from a small stream half a mile away.

Five thousand feet of pipe shipped last Friday has been delayed, but is expected to arrive by night and will be laid a distance of a mile to tap a pond into which one arm of the city sewarage system empties. This will not be used however, except in case of fire, or unless the present small sources fail and then only after being put through a chlorination process.

From the front page of the Wilson Daily Times, Monday, Oct. 17, 1921

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