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Show cnli Dept. says clilorinoio In an emergency meeting last Thursday evening, Mayor Roy L. Young told the City Council and those In attendance that the State Health Dept. was attempting to force Milford City to chlorinate the city water system. sys-tem. Several water samples have shown a bacteria count in recent months, he said. However, there has been no consistency in the samples, with most of them being good. "It looks like a conspiracy against Milford because we pulled outoftheFCAGHealth District," the Mayor said. "They can't show us where the water is bad, they can't pinpoint the cause of the bad samples, and it looks like it's up to us (Milford City) to prove our water is good." Mayor Young said he had talked to Dr. Symond, the County Health Officer, and neither feel there Is any danger in culinary use of city water. No sickness has been reported or suspected. Both good and bad samples have been taken by the city and the State Health Dept. There is reason to suspect that some bottles furnished by the State HealthDept. may be contaminated. Taking samples is a very precise action, Mayor Young said. Any foreign matter can cause contamination; dust, dirt, spit, sweat, or just breathing on the sample before be-fore capping it can cause contamination. However, the city has taken precautions to eliminate this possibility, but still bad samples keep turning up. Recorder Jones read the letter from the State Division Divi-sion of Health in which they required: "1. Properly designed chlorlnation equipment be in -stalled as soon as possible. 2. That if a time-table for installation of the chlor illation illa-tion equipment is received within one month, from date of the letter, the Milford system sys-tem will qualify for a "Classification "Clas-sification Pending" rating. Otherwise, it will be rated as "Not Approved". The system sys-tem is now classified as "Provisionally Approved". 3. That all water users be instructed to boil for at least five minutes all water from the MilfordWaterworksSys-tem, MilfordWaterworksSys-tem, intended for drinking and related activities." Mayor Young said thatDr. Symond did not recommend the above action at this time. Conversations with the Health Dept. had brought no satisfaction, he said, and he recommended the city take (Continued on Page 4) HERE'S MORE ABOUT Health Dept. new samples and have them tested. He suggested Identical Identi-cal samples be submitted to the Health Dept. and to two Independent laboratories. He reported he was delivering the samples personally on Tuesday morning, at the regular re-gular council session on Monday. The emergency meeting was Immediately following the special meeting with the Milford Golf Assoc. J. H. Davis said the golf course presently represents an equity of $232,000, which includes land, water right, equipment, and sprinkling system. These figures were based upon an average of three Independent appraisals made previous to submitting an application for Bureau of Recreation grant last year. These assets should be increased in-creased by the Increase in value of property and Inflation Infla-tion over the past year, he said. The Association has liabilities li-abilities of $43,000. After some discussion of the assets and liabilities, the Council voted to re -submit the application for a BOR grant, using the assets as matching funds, and agreeing agree-ing that if the grant is received re-ceived the city will complete the course and operate it for 20 years. These terms are required by BOR when the grant is considered. If the application is denied, no obligation is assumed by the city. If granted, grant-ed, the Golf Ass'n. will turn over all the assets and liabilities li-abilities of the golf course to Milford City. |