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Page 178 WATER SYSTEM
Cost to the consumer, viz: 25c per thousand, with a minimum charge
of $1.50 per quarter. This rate, too, would have gone up. In
addition thereto, the rates to manufacturers have been placed as low
as 2C per thousand gallons.
The maximum revenue derived by the City at any one year
was $49,831.91. At that time the Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal & Coke
Company was using water for its operations at Shafts Nos. 1 and 2,
and the B. R. & P. Railroad was using a very large amount of water.
Both Shafts No 1 and No. 2 were cut off in 1930 and the B. R. & P.
Railroad cut its supply down very materially.
However, the city now had an abundant supply of pure,
wholesome water, owned by the taxpayers, coming from uncontaminated
mountain streams without the necessity of a filtering plant and
according to the estimate of Mr. Knight, of sufficient quantity to
supply a city of 100,000 inhabitants with all its industries.
During the unprecedented drought of 1930, the consumers
were not limited in the amount of water they desired to use,
although cities throughout the state were compelled to curtail the
use of water.
The City of DuBois owes a debt of gratitude to the
Council of the Borough of DuBois of 1895 for securing to the people
of the City this wonderful supply of water, the equal of which is
not exceeded in any other city of the state.
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