1902-Norwood's water and sewer system

 

 

From the Friday, September 7, 1900 Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald:

Since the dry season has come the Norwood people are again feeling the necessity of water works. The small brooks that run through the village furnish a natural drainage, and when there is plenty of water the need of sewers is not so marked; but in a dry time like this, these brooks nearly dry up, and the residents along the banks continue to run slop-drains into them, causing cess pools, and the Board of Health is constantly harassed by complaints. A resolution to put in a system of Water-works has been twice voted down. We are informed that it will be tried again at the next election.

 

From the Friday, July 11, 1902 Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald:

Norwood Village trustees have advertised for sealed proposals for the labor and material for putting the waterworks system in that village. The plans and specifications have been completed and are filed with the village clerk. The bids are to be made on blanks furnished by the clerk to correspond with the plans and specifications and must be in by July 25th. The village board have accepted the proposition of W. N. Crouch for furnishing power and doing the pumping, which includes the furnishing of a fire proof building and water and steam power, oil, fuel and repairs, the price agreed upon being $1,000 per year. An order has already been placed for a Rumsey pump. It is expected that the entire waterworks system will be put in this season.

 

(From the Friday, November 14, 1902 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald)

 

Contractor Nims has the Norwood waterworks pipes laid over a large portion of the village, and the water has been let in. Water was supplied to the railroad companies last week Tuesday, and Friday afternoon. Jos. Fish had his residence connected and began taking water.

The Walsh Boiler and Iron Works company, of Springfield have a gang of men at work erecting the stand pipe and will have it ready for use in about five weeks. The pipe is to be 75 feet high, and 18 feet wide, and when filled with water will put a pressure of about 80 pounds to the square inch on the mains about town. In case of fire the system is so arranged that the pressure can be raised to 200 pounds. Work on the sewers is suspended for the present, until the survey is corrected and approved by the State Board of Health.

(Note: The stand pipe was replaced in the fall of 2004. )

 

(The following article was from the Friday, May 29, 1903 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald).

The last pipes of the waterworks system have been put down and the system is complete and one of the best in Northern New York. A pressure of seventy pounds to the square inch is constantly maintained, and this is ample for all fire purposes, as was demonstrated last Tuesday evening. That we can fight fire at any moment without depending upon an expensive steam fire engine is a privilege which very few villages enjoy. Mr. Nims now has his force of men at work putting in the sewers and before two weeks goes past a line will be completed from the river to Mechanic street. There is a great rash of work for plumbers, and all have more work than they can do in placing connections for water and sewers--Norwood News

 

From the Friday, September 11, 1903 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald:

The Norwood News says: "Rock has been encountered in making excavation for laying sewer pipe on Morgan street and steam drills were set up last Thursday and put into operation Friday. The rock is very irregular in form and in some places it will have to be blasted out to a depth of five or six feet."

 

(Construction on the Village of Norwood water pollution control plant began in 1969)

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