Tewkesbury Waterworks. 1893.
From the Bristol Mercury. 1893.
| An offer by Tewkesbury Corporation to pay 6d per 1000 gallons for water supplied from the
Corporation works was submitted. Tewkesbury Corporation were now requested to appoint
their arbitrator, "as it is high time the matter was settled." The Mayor, as chairman of the Water
Committee made a lengthy statement as to the position of the water supply of the town. There was, he
said, 72 days' supply in the reservoirs, and he had no hesitation in saying that the time was approaching when they
would have to lay on an additional supply in order to meet the exceptional drought which was unfortunately
still continuing. There were two schemes before the committee, one being to lay on the water from Tewkesbury.
There was a great deal of prejudice against Severn water, but the people of Tewkesbury had drunk it for 15 years
without any injurious effects, while chemical analysis proved that the water was good, and the filter bed effectually
removed any impurity from it. The other scheme was to try to get more water from the hills in the
neighbourhood; but his belief was that they had exhausted every source from the Cotswold hills. The mayor added that he intended
calling a special meeting of the Council to consider the question and deal with it one way or the other next Monday.It was proposed that
the pipes should be laid as far as Coombe Hill, but this was ruled out of order. |