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no place for SUBSTITUTES in pipe seleotion Check the score before experimenting with substitutes for cast iron pipe.1 POINTS TO COMPARE Long Life Bursting Pressure Bursting Tensile Impact Resistance Beam Loads (12-foot span) Crushing Loads Water Absorption Tight Joints Inside Diameter CAST IRON PIPE 100 Years or more 2,988 psi 25,880 psi 234 ft. lbs. 20,790 pounds 17,900 lbs. per ft. None ' Wide selection for liquid or gas service 6.14" SUBSTITUTE PIPE ? 746 psi . 3,430 psi 60 ft. lbs. 3,060 pounds 6,480 lbs. per ft. 9.8% of weight after 24-hour submersion Limited selection for water service 5.85" SOUTHWEST WATER WORKS JOURNAL {or SEPTEMBER, 1960  Dallas County WCID No. 6 at Balch Springs, Texas, has asked ap proval of $870,000 in bonds to pro vide water works and sewerage for that town which has grown from 800 in 1952 to its present population of 6,400. The Springdale, Ark., City Council has passed an ordinance authorizing the city to borrow $100,000 for im provement of the city water works. Steele, Ark., has awarded a $300, 000 sewer system construction con tract. The project is part of an over-all city improvement plan. A national financial advisory service has given an AA rating to New Or leans, La., Sewerage and Water Board's $6.2 million revenue bond issue. This rating is said to reflect the efficiency of the issuing board and of the Board of Liquidation of the city debt, which approved the issue. Texas State Board of Water Engi neers has declined to approve the ap plication file for hearing of San An tonio's plea for a permit to build a huge dam above Cuero on the Guada lupe River and divert from it 280,250 ac. ft. a year for municipal use. Erick, Okla., voters have approved a $56,000 water works system bond issue to construct a ground water reser voir and install two 400 gpm turbine pumps. The McAlester, Okla., planning commission has unanimously endorsed the city's proposed $815,000 sanitary sewer improvement project. A $4 million contract has been awarded for construction of a 51-mile aqueduct from Foss dam and reservoir to serve five Oklahoma communities-- Hobert, Clinton, Bessie, Cordell and Rocky. Completion is expected by Sep tember 1962. A meeting was held recently in Stroud, Okla., to work out preliminary details on development of the Salt and Camp Creek watershed and the con templated construction of a city water supply reservoir. 'SX'X .. ../.?,/ ' ' .>v 'i.-Si- '-: ' '-v [LR55IFIED and SERVICE DEPflRTITlEnT SALESMEN WANTED: To hire, train, and sell water softeners or chemical to water works, etc. Age, race, creed, no barrier. Immediate assignment. Top earn ings. Nationwide. Rush resume. CRYCO, 2S72 Piedmont Rd., Charleston, W. Va. For Accurate Reading of Meters on Test . . . Meter dials are read accurately .. . down to y% of 1% .. . when equipped with the Ford Clearvue Test Dial. May be used on any straight or round reading register between 2i/j" and 3" in diameter, except those with a sweep hand in the center. It makes no difference whether meter reads in gallons, cubic feet or liters. Calibrated aluminum ring, 5" in diameter, can be turned to any position for start of test. THE FORD METER (OX COMPANY. INC. Wabash, Indiana FOR BETTER WATER SERVICES TECHNICAL RUBBER STAMPS - Pictured are a few of the symbols reproduced on rubber stamps, created for electri cal, electronic, mechanical, civil, chemi cal, and industrial engineers, technici ans, designers, architects, draftsmen, field and plant supervisors. Complete information, catalog of designs avail able and prices can be obtained from Technical Stamp Division, Paper Equip ment Distributing Co., P.O. Box 90, Prince St. Station, New York 12, N. Y. 32 SOUTHWEST WATER WORKS JOURNAL for SEPTEMBER, 1960  Victor Braunig has been named general manager of the San Antonio SOUTHWESTERN SWIM River Authority, replacing the late J. L. Dickson. Braunig is the San An tonio Basin's member of the US Study Commission. Nacogdoches County (Texas) voters have favored creation of Nacog doches County WCID No. 1 by a vote of 1,793-174. The District plans to take up the City of Nacogdoches' pres entation on Beech Creek, for a reser voir to provide a water supply for a new paper mill. Sherman, Texas, voters approved a charter amendment for limited annex ation, planned to protect the ground water supply of the city by taking in rural areas where well field expansion will be needed. Col. Everett A. Hansen, District Engineer at Galveston for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers until his re cent retirement, has been named VicePres. in charge of engineering for Bauer Dredging Co., Port Lavaca, Tex. Shreveport, La., Water and Sewer Dept, has whittled its debt to the gen eral fund down to 5100,000. The de partment raised water and sewer rates October, 1959, to bring in extra reve nues. So far this year, according to John Ford, Finance Commissioner, revenues have topped those of the first eight months of 1959 by 5473,156.83. A new sewer district was created in Opelousas, La., to include all of Bonnyville sub-division not now in a sewer district. Elaine, Ark., has let contracts total ing S 163,898 for water and sewer sys tem improvements. Brinkley, Ark., has placed its new Installation of a sanitary sewer sys tem for the townsite of New Mannford, Okla., is 65 97 complete. The sys tem will serve about 226 families in the new townsite on Keystone reser voir. Waters of the new lake will cover the present town of Mannford. Search for property on which to locate a million-gallon water reservoir has been launched by the Tonkawa, Okla., city council. Progress has been reported in the efforts of three industrial firms in Pryor, Okla., to set up an authority to handle the disposal of waste water from their plants as a step toward the solution of the pollution problem in Pryor Creek. Final plans and specifications for a new sewage treatment plant and sew age interceptor lines were approved by the Claremore, Okla., city council. The project will be financed through a 5396.000 bond issue by the city and a 5151.000 grant approved by the Fed eral Health Department. M. J. Harvey, Pres., Tyler Pipe & Foundry Co., Tyler, Texas, has been named by the East Texas Chamber of Commerce as its "Man of the Month" for September. Harvey pioneered the cast iron pipe industry in the Tyler area more than 20 years ago. Bell County WCID No. 4 has asked the Texas Board of Water Engineers for approval plans for a 550,000 bond issue to finance expansion of its lines. The Texas Board of Water Engi neers has approved plans for a S260,- 000 water and sewer bond issue for Fort Bend County WCID No. 2, to build additions to the systems serving Stafford and Missouri City. The Texas Water Development Board is trying to get restrictions eased on the SI00 million it has to lend to water districts and cities. It passed a resolution asking the Legislature to raise the amount it can lend to a single project from S5 million to S15 mil lion. Present restrictions say the WDB can only finance up to one-third of a project. The Tarrant County (Texas) WCID No. 1 has applied for a permit to build a reservoir on the Trinity River West Fork in Wise County at the Boyd site, which engineers esti mate would yield 11.210 acre-feet year ly to augment Fort Worth's water sup ply. This project was one phase of a compromise worked out in the fuss in Fort Worth over the Cedar Creek project. Sherman, Texas, has approved a 5550,000 water and sewer bond issue. Belton, Texas, has employed Mar vin Turner Engineers to make a study of its water and sewer needs. Houston County (Texas) WCID No. 1, which now includes only the City of Crockett, may expand to cover the whole county, to seek an indus trial water supply.. ' 500.000 gallon water tower in service. The tower is 125 feet high. Kaplan, La., voters have approved a 5225.000 bond issue for a sewage sys tem and for improvements to present water facilities. The sewage disposal plant of the old Michaud ordnance plant will be deeded to the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, a step which will aid industrial expansion of the eastern portion of the city. Lexington, Okla., voters have ap proved a 525,000 bond issue for im proving the town's sanitary sewer sys tem and rebuilding the lift station. Commissioner Ruben Jay is urging fellow members to "begin thinking WATER LINE to Florida Keys was repaired in four days following Hurricane Donna, the Nation's first "billion dollar storm." Even before the storm had run its course, machinery was set in motion to repair the 125-mile water line ex tending from the pumping station in Homestead, Fla., to the tip of the badly battered Florida Keys. Setting emergency plans into action, the US Navy dis patched a plane to the Bradford, Pa., plant of Dresser Manufacturing Division, seriously" on providing Stillwater, Okla., with an ample water supply lake in the near future. where the company supplied 100 16-inch water-line couplings for air lift into Miami. Photos show, left, how only the more exposed sections of pipeline were destroyed; right, workmen clear away debris prior to installation of new section --Photos courtesy Dresser Mfg. Div, SOUTHWEST WATER WORKS JOURNAL for NOVEMBER, 1960 31 ST && rrdnru the secretaryr t Jfe " by LESLIE- A.: JACKSON, Seaetatt^Tteasuret j Southwest Sectlohi yAtpeacanS.^ttterf Wor^:,^^ ; Association'and Manager^ IititleiRoclL J J yrlV5-' W5P ; A't* / Galvesron Convention has come and gone. Texas won the Southwest Sec tion, AWWA, trophy in the annual membership contest. It's sort of a com plicated formula in figgering the meth ods and we won't go into them here. But it was a tight fight. It was a real pleasure to see the hard-working Texas Trustee last year, Ralph Hardy, step up to the head table on Monday Oct. 17 and receive the trophy from AWWA Pres. Caeser Wertz. Later in the convention, Pres. Wertz, who had been working under the han dicap of the flu bug for 10 days, dropped out of the picture and had to be hospitalized. He still was able to catch a plane home Wednesday after noon and missed the Manufacturers' Dinner-Dance. Hope he will take care of himself and hope that he is well on his way back to recovery. But Galves ton made him feel right at home in one manner. Wertz, as you know, is from Miami. Tuesday afternoon the dernest shower developed and it kept falling all night and into the next morning. Nearby there was a couple of twisters. This was a very small size "Donna," but he did have this sort of welcome. He's a grand guy. All of the former Southwest Section AWWA Trustees worked hard on the membership desk. Final report of just how many were signed as AWWA members will be known later, but a real big batch of new applications are to be processed. Jim Corey from AWWA office and Jim Milligan from Mueller Co. han dled the publicity on this Southwest Section, AWWA, convention. If you were in attendance or were on the pro gram, the chances are good that you had a publicity release sent to your BIONETIC is a dry powder of preserved beneficial groups of micro-organisms that accelerate natural biological action to break down wastes. Mwuapa&fo*, Inotuithie* cwd Iwfifcfontt* GLEANS COLLECTION SYSTEM LINES: CONTROLS ODORS: BIONETIC reduces accumulation of grease and sludge in collection systems and lift BIONETIC reduces end eliminates odors in Imhoff Tanks, sludge digestion tanks, lift stations, maintaining flow capacity at a stations, sludge drying beds and trickling maximum. Thus the treatment process is filters. Reduces hydrogen sulfide produc improved because of the cleaner lines. tion in collection systems. The above facts are field-tested and proven for BIONETIC ONLY. Don't accept sobslUutos. Bfonef/c is a rogistorod frede-mork of Reliance Chemicals Corporation, U vlook for the name BIONETIC before yoa boy. c drporat P. o. Box 19343 Houston 24, Texas local newspapers, radio, and television stations. These gentlemen did a bangup job and we are all proud to have had them with us and to work with us. Lind Nelson and his co-workers in Galveston put on a very fine conven tion. San Antonio has something to shoot for next year, just as Galveston did this year, following the 1959 New Orleans Convention. A lot of thanks and appreciation must go to Nelson and the department heads and fellow citizens who worked so long and so hard and made it look so easy. Please ask us back soon again. Trying to get all the loose ends gathered and the records up to date after this convention will make this re port short. Next month it will have a lot of facts and figgers for you. Right now here are some recent changes in the Southwest Section, AWWA, mem bership records: NEW MEMBERS A. C. Lock, Jr., Cushing, Okla. John L. Bletsch, Baytown, Tex. Eddie H. Harviil, La Marque, Tex. Alfred F. McConnell, San Antonio 12, Tex. Raymond A. Riley, Water Division, Houston, Tex. F. H. Whitley, Dept, of Prev. Med., AMSS BAMC, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex. Harold A. Brady, Abilene, Tex. Oren Brakeville, DeQueen Municipal Water Works, DeQueen, Ark. C. Richard Burnett, Water Supt., Longview, Tex. Wallace H. Campbell, Hersey-Sparling Meter Co., Dallas, Tex. * J. Harold Clary* Oper. Engr., General Water Works Corp., Pine Bluff, Ark. Frank L. Fleming, L & W Supt., City of Cordell, Cordell. Okla. Joseph N. Emmons, Sales Repr., Pipe Div., Johns-Manville Sales Corp., El Paso. Tex. Lee C. Emory, Field Repr., Marvin Turner Engrs., Inc., Austin, Tex. J. C. George, San. Engr., Arkansas State Health Dept., Little Rock, Ark. Cornelius S. Gooch, Reg. Service Engr., B-l-F Industries, Inc., Dallas, Tex. Charles T. Gordon, Water Treatment Chemist, Lake Hefner Water Treatment Plant, Oklahoma City, Okla. Richard W. Gray, Mgr., Weiner Water Works, Weiner, Ark. Arthur N. Green, Plant Mgr., Stauffer Chem. Co., Bastrop, La. Fay N. Hansen. Dist. Engr., U. S. Geo logical Survey, Surface Water Branch, Baton Rouge, La. J. P. Hart, Water Treatment Chemist, Oklahoma City Water Dept., Oklahoma City, Okla. Lee Conrad Herwig, Jr., Lawton, Okla. James F,, Horne, Supt. of Water Dept., City of Duncanville, Duncanville, Tex. Wilson Bradley Jones, Water & Sewage Supt., Longview, Tex. Wm. Donald Kennedy, Mgr., El Jardin Water Co., La Porte, Texas. Chas. L. Kimberling, Chief Engr., Wa ter & Sewer Dept., Tulsa, Okla. Murry W. Reichen, Office Manager, General Waterworks Corp., Pine Bluff, Ark. Walerlan Sienkiewicz, General Fore man. City Water Works, Victoria, Tex. J. Smith Tucker, Supt. Public Works, City of Marion, Marion, Ark. 32 SOUTHWEST WATER WORKS JOURNAL for NOVEMBER, 1960