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Item
Title
D11342-2
Date(s)
- 1941-05-20 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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In 1941, Fircrest needed to update the water system originally built some 30+ years before by the Narrows Land Company headed by Major Edward Bowes. Two artesian wells were drilled to give the town a modern, more adequate water supply. The two wells produced 1,500 gallons per minute jointly, enough to work the new pumps and fill a 35,000-gallon reservoir. L.V. Denny of Tacoma received the contract for drilling the wells and hit water at 170 feet. The whole project involved a $77,000 investment including replacing leaky water mains with new pipe as well as new pumps and fittings. (T. Times 6/17/1941, pg. 3)
Wells--Fircrest; Drilling; Drilling & boring machinery;