Engineering and Contracting . istant from the plant. When this is done, the necessity of having a man onduty all day at the plant will be done away with, for allthat will be necessary will be for the attendant to makean inspection of the plant say once each day, wash thefilters when necessary, and make up a fresh supply ofcoagulants for each day. The plant is equipped with a motor-driven blower forair wash, a hypochlorite plant for emergency use, andwith mercury loss-of-head gages. It is the first plantin Kansas to have automatic equipment. The averagedaily consumption of water is about 50,000
Engineering and Contracting . istant from the plant. When this is done, the necessity of having a man onduty all day at the plant will be done away with, for allthat will be necessary will be for the attendant to makean inspection of the plant say once each day, wash thefilters when necessary, and make up a fresh supply ofcoagulants for each day. The plant is equipped with a motor-driven blower forair wash, a hypochlorite plant for emergency use, andwith mercury loss-of-head gages. It is the first plantin Kansas to have automatic equipment. The averagedaily consumption of water is about 50,000 gal. The plant has been in operation long enough to dem-onstrate that the automatic devices can be dependedupon to perform their work properly, and to show thatthey are of value in a small plant, for the reason thatmore uniform results are obtained, and the attendantcan devote most of his time to other things, and thereare always plenty of them in a small town to keep a manbusy. Inlet from Chemicol Tank >?[ BallBearings.
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