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The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXV. No. 49.
SEWICKLEY. PA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. 1928
Price 5 Gents.
"**E6gewortl")'s 3W $110,000 jpumpins Station
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The new $110,000 pumping station for
the Edgeworth Water Company is practically completed except for some painting in the interior of the building and
Tuesday afternoon the old station was
turned over to the Pennsylvania railroad to be razed to make way for the
new right of Av/iy.
The now station is a beautiful buff
and red 'brick building with a roof of
red Mission tilos. Stone cornices, stone
sills for the windows and elaborately
decorated doorways add a great deal
to the appearance of tho building,
wliieh is locatod at the foot of Chestnut street, about ono hundred and fifty
yards west of tho new railroad station.
Tho lawn is already graded; being terraced on three sides and as soon as the
grass is in and tho shrubbery planted,
and tho 80 foot flagpole eroetod the
plant will bo a real asset to the boauty
of Edgoworth.
Tho Water is taken from 12 Wells
driven 40 _eet into tho ground. The
bottom oight feet of tho 12 inch pipe
is perforated with lj020 quarter-inch
holes and the percentage of upper rivor
water that finds its way into theso
lioles is loss than two por cent, according to W. 0. Brock, superintendent of
tho Edgoworth "Water Company.
Tlio 16 inch suction lines run through
a 4 x 5 foot tunnel from the river
bank to tlio huge well under tho pumping station. This well lias an inside
diameter of 35 foet; ami is 34 feot deep.
A winding stair skirts tlio side of the
concrete WalJ find allows employees to
descend into tho bottom of the well
where tlio pumps are locatod. There aro
two pumps, ono is a now centrifugal
pump drivon at 1,778 revolutions per
minute by an electric motor, which in
turn is operated from electricity from
a 450 volt generator, which furnishes
all of the power needed at the plant.
Tho generator is driven by a 165 horse
power _ cylinder, dual ignition Brute
McBeth gasoline motor, which has an
open head, overhead valves, two foot
spark plugs and two magnetos, either
one of which will operate the motor.
The other pump is the auxiliary pump
taken from the old station and is of tlio
plunger typo. That is, the 125 horse
power Westinghouse gasoliiiri motor
turns flywheols which are connected
with a power head from which connecting rods go down through the floor of
tho engine room and operate pistons in
cylinders in the pump, thirty odd feet
bolow.
Each pump is capable of pumping one
million and a half gallons of water a
day, so usually Only one of the pumps
is kept busy for eight hours each day.
Also in tho engine room aro found a
seven and a half tone crane which runs
across the room on huge steel tracks j
a Cochran flow meter With a capacity
Of 2,400,000 gallons a day; an oloctric
driven vacuum pump which is used to
got the air out of the water lines j and
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