Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — CITY WATER VERY LOW. [ARTICLE]

CITY WATER VERY LOW.

The extravagant use and waste of city water in the city makes it necessary for the Common Council to notify every one using city water of the dangerous conditions caused by this extravagant use and waste of water. The pressure is frequently reduced to such a point that should fire break out the safety of great portions of the city would be endangered. Numbers of people frequently permit the water to run for hours, benefitting nothing whatever, and not infrequently is it permitted to run all night. Your attention is called to the Ordinance governing the use of water: Section 17 provides that street sprinkling may be done only between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock noon, before 9 a. rn. and after 4 jp m.\ lawns may be sprinkled only between 4 and 9 a. m. and 4 and 9p. m. Section 26 prohibits the use of water for anyother purposes than specified in your permit, prohibits leaks, prohibits waste while sprinkling and prohibits water running from hose, stopcocks or hydrants unnecesarily or during forbidden hours. Section 28 provides that parties violating the Ordinance shall be fined in any sum not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars. Parties who insist and continue to waste water in violation of this Ordinance will have their water supply shut off, and will be prosecuted as provided in the Ordinance. The Common Council City of Rensselaer, Ind. Just received, a new line of cheviots and ginghams at Rowles & Parker’s.