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Clinton News-Record, 1961-04-27, Page 2SAFETY: In an electric water heater, the heating units are concealed for safety and efficiency. There are no flames, no fumes. 0 Y CT ICI GIVES Y ULOW COST: When you use low cost electricity to heat water, you can be sure the heat you pay for is going right into the water. Little, if any, heat is wasted. THESE IMPORTANT HOT WATER CLEANLINESS: Electricity is clean as light. There is no dirt, fumes or smoke. ADVANTA ES To get more out of life . . get the most out of electricity. CLINTON PUBLIC UTILITIES EFFICIENCY: Because there is no flue, no heat escapes and you can install your modern elect- ric water heater in any convenient location. 4 OPEN .HOUSE" YOUR Public Utilities Commission invites you to attend OPEN HOUSE at the new Office and Warehouse on Park Lane Friday Evening, April 28 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Coffee and Cookies will be served Door Prizes donated by CLINTON ELECTRIC SHOP, A. GROVES and SON and SUTTER-PERDUE LTD. will be a TV LAMP, a HOT DOG COOKER and a PAIR OF LAMPS. Everyone is Welcome ..AVIS.CONTRA(TING•kalak PAFPIMG.14:11:. oR IVES Our best wishes to Clinton Public Utilities Blacktop and sidewalks at the new office and warehouse was laid by our firm Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. CLINTON HU 2-6694 'Everyone Welcome to View the New Building The people of Clinton have been invited by their elected commission in charge of the town public utilities, to attend an open house, Friday, April 28, in the office and warehouse building on Park Lane. There is no great ceremony laid on. There will be no ribbon-cutting. Commissioners, and members of the staff of the PUC will be on hand to guide visitors, which make up the three-part public utilities, Built in 1959, the office and warehouse' lias been in use since then, with continually more work being done to make it shipshape and complete. This week the plaque which bears the names of the commission at the time of construction (in- cidentally these four men are still in office) 'has arrived and has been. put in position. Clinton has enjoyed a con- siderable advantage over the years in a continued superin- tendency. Since 1914 when the first commission met, there have been only three superin- tendents, including the present Jabez E. Rands. The others were the late H. B. Chant and the late A. E. Rumball. Continued service to the community is also 'seen among members of the commission. The present chairman, William R Perdue, has been on the commission' for almost 30 years (with some brief terms out of action, due to th.e will of the voters). All of the other mem- bers, have :a record of fairly long service. Charles Brown since 1954; Harold E. Hartley since 1955; Antoine (Red) Gar- on since 1957. Of course Mayor W. J. Miller is a 'member ex officio, and since there have been several changes in Clin- ton's mayorality over the years, this fifth member of the com- mission has changed also. In, the business of selling hy- MERRILL TV SERVICE 215 VICTORIA STREET Phone HU 2-7021 IF YOUR RADIO-TV- SHOULD GO BERSERK, WE CAN ALWAYS KETHEMWORK Cement Foundation of the Clinton PUC Office Building Vault and Floors was the work of our men M. McAdam GENERAL CONTRACTOR Clinton HU 2-7070 I CONGRATULATIONS TO... Clinton Public Utilities Commission We are pleased to have supplied the Office Furniture and Board Room Furnishings in the new office. Hay Stationery Limited London - Brantford - Welland "Serving Western Ontario for 46 years" Area Representative—MR. JOE RULE, St. Marys Ont. Cale o cette NIIIIMIES11161111 . zit Clinton PUC Building — 1959 We Are ProLid To Have Been Chosen to Build This Fine Public Building in Clinton General Contract,r CLINTON Phone HU 2-3348 S SC11.•••••••1111011011•111•P Office, Warehouse and Garage ... Best wishes to Clinton PUC in their new quarters. Grant Rath PAINTING and DECORATING Clinton HU 2-7040 ater In Clinton Best that man, money and nature can provide Deep rock wells produce never-failing supply of good drinking water. Sp rkling, - cle r—no need for filtration addition of Clorine. Ideal content of Natural Fluorides Clinton's Dentist says: "Natural fluorides in Clin- ton's drinking water means at least 40 percent fewer cavities for our children. tiParamill•Ma GOOD CLEAN WATER Taken for granted— but, appreciated by all. Water Department Clinton Public Utilities Sewerage System In Clinton .. n now 1/4 paid for Installed in 1946, and on 20 year debentures— there is only 5 more 'years to go. By 1966 the present system will ,be paid for. A MODERN DISPOSAL SYSTEM of which Citizens May Feel Proud Clinton, at the hub of Huron —leader in Modern Building and Modern Utilities. Sewerage Department Clinton Public Utilities at PUC Building Friday Night dro, it was natural for the Ontario Hydro, and therefore Connuission to choose electric it must be charged out to the heating for their new building. PUC building, just as to any It was' constructed with proper other customer. insulation as recognized by ex, parts in electrical heating, and the result is a considerable sav- ing in cost, Some folic may feel that the cost would be non,eNistent be, cause the PUC sells hydro. However, it must be remem, bered that the local commission must first buy the power from There will be a free chance on three door prizes which have been offered' by merchants in town who sell electrical ap- pliances. The Town Council in 1946 decided to have a sewer system installed in Clinton and engag- ed engineers to make a set of plans and specifications for a system to suit the town's needs. This done, tenders were called and by 1947 a sewer system was installed in Clinton. • The sewerage system is like a waterworks system, in that a large part of it is buried underground. There are be- tween 11 and 12 miles of main sewer pipe and some 900 lat- erals or services of varying lengths. None of this can be seen. In 1948 the Public Utilities was given the job of manag- ing :this system and also the collecting of part of the sewer money in the water accounts. Town residents should feel very good 'about the sewer system and be thankful that it was in- stalled at that time. lit is now three-quarters paid' for •and at very low rates of interest com- pared to those asked for •at the present time. Also the cost of material and labour was somewhat lower than it is to- day. This is proved very definitely when you read of the high costs that confront other mun- icipalities figuring on sewer systems to-day. The Clinton 'sewer system consists of (as mentioned a- bove) a large amount of sew- ers buried in the street from six to 20 feet deep. There is a small pumphouse in the westerly part of the town on Osborne Street, where Part of the sewage flows by gravity into a basin or wet well, from which it is pumped by two automatically controlled pumps through the cast iron force main on Wellington Street to King Street. It flows down King Street, by gravity to the disposal plant. The small pumphouse was necessary because of the differ- ent levels or falls in the town. One part of Clinton falls to the west, and the other falls to the south. Therefore a sew- er could not be designed econ- omically to flow by gravity from all parts of the town to one point. The disposal plant is near the south boundary of Clinton on Victoria Terrace. This is The building is actually own- ed by the hydro department of thw PUC. Space and office ser- vices are rented to the water and sewerage departments where all the sewage is received eventually. It flows into a primary tank where the solids settle to the bottom and the liquid runs out into aerators. In the aerators the liquid is stirred by a ship's propeller run by an electric motor, so as to mix in oxygen from the air. This is where the liquid goes through the purifying by oxygen process. It is retained in the aerators for varying lengths of time, and when it leaves, the liquid looks as clear as spring water. From the aerators the liquid passes through a partial flume, from which the flow rate is measured, to an open tank cal- led the chlorine chamber. 'In this chamber chlorine is' added to purify the liquid still more before it is emptied into the Bayfield River. Meanwhile the solids are let to settle in the primary tank. This tank has two hoppers in the bottom from which the solids are pumped by an auto- matically controlled pump ev- ery half hour, into a large cement tank partly under- ground, called a digester. These solid's (or sludge as 'it is now called) go through a process of being digested', In this process it turns 'to thick ly black) liquid giving off a gas that is highly inflam- mable and very explosive. In the larger disposal plants (where enough is developed) this gas is• used for heating and producing power to operate the machinery of the plant. The digester is a. part of the disposal plant where workmen cannot smoke, nor use any open flame while working near it. There is a valve on the di- gester which is called a flame trap. This valve is for letting off the gas at intervals when pressure forces it out. At times (depending mostly on the weather) this black sludge is. pumped from the di- gester to drying beds. There is a great amount of water in the sludge. When it is first let out it is eight inches deep, and when dry it drops to two inch- es deep. When dry enough to load on a truck, the sludge is removed from the drying beds. A good many town folk know it as a very good fertilizer. Page 2—Clinton News-Record----Thurs., April 27, 1961 Electrical heating has the 'ad- vantage of being clean, quiet, and needs 'a minimum of main- tenance. Employees at the PUC have little snow to shovel around the new building, for electric heating was installed in the sidewalk, and -the snow melts off, right down to the cement, History of 15-Year Old Sewerage Plant Reviewed by Superintendent (By Jabez E. Rands) The youngest of Clinton's three utilities managed by the Public Utilities Commission is the sewerage system. However, it is very important to .the town. For one thing it gives a builder a good reason for building in Clinton.