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Show NEW PUMP WILL GIVE MILFORD ADEQUATEWATER A new pump installed this week In one of the three Milford Mil-ford city water wells will assure as-sure a constant supply of water to residents In almost any emergency, according to Karl Hanney, City Water commissioner. Mr. Hanney explained that the new pump has been designed de-signed to pump water directly into the city mains, as well as into the storage tanks, and a repitition of a water sliutoff such as Occurred here in January Jan-uary will be, in the future, ''a very remote possibility." Last January the city was without water for several hours while workmen repaired a break in a water main at the base of one of the large storage stor-age tanks. A smaller storage tank supplied water for a portion por-tion of the city, but had a fire occurred in the residential area on the north or west side, the firemen would have been unable un-able to extinguish the blaze. "Installation of this new pump, and one more new one which will be put into operation opera-tion during the coming summer, sum-mer, gives Milford assurance of adequate and constant water for 20 or 30 years," Mr. Hanney Han-ney said. "We plan to 'pull' the pump on the well near the Ed Smith home, which has only been in service about 10 years, to examine it and check the well for sand, then all Mil-ford's Mil-ford's wells will be in tip-top condition." The new pump will pour 500 gallons of water per minute into the mains or into Mil-ford's Mil-ford's 285,000 gallon capacity storage tanks. |