It was definitely decided to extend the intake pipe for the local filter plant to a point above the National and Jennings cotton mills and Jennings beach at a meeting of the mayor and town commissioners Monday evening. An engineer sent here recently by the State Board of Health to investigate the proposed change of the intake pipe recommended that the pipe be extended to a point above Jennings beach.
The meeting Monday evening was attended by a number of local citizens and the following expressed themselves as favoring the extension: Messrs. L.R. Varser, A.E. White, E.L. Hamilton, A.S. King, J.H. Wishart, Jas. D. Proctor, R.H. Crichton, L.T. Townsend, J.D. Norment, E.J. Britt, W.M. Burney and A.P. McAllister.
The National and Jennings cotton mill companies have agreed to pay $2,500 each towards paying the expense of the extension and it is estimated that the extension will eliminate the cost of around $7,500 to the town in putting in sewer lines in the north-western part of town, while it is estimated that the total cost of the extension will not exceed $17,500. With the extension of the pipe the owners of the two cotton mills mentioned above will not have to erect disposal plants in connection with their sewer lines in the mill villages, which means quite a saving to them. Members of the board of commissioners voting in favor of the extension were Dr. N.A. Thompson, Messrs. J.L. Stephens and L.C. Townsend, Mr. M.M. Rozier, commissioner from the second ward, did not vote, giving as his reason that he did not think the cotton mill companies had agreed to pay enough of the cost.
With this extension of the intake pipe, water pumped into the reservoir at the local filter plant will come from above the points where the sewer lines from the North and West Lumberton villages empty into the river.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Aug. 31, 1922
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