. Journal of the New England Water Works Association . s aflow of current off of the force main in the Tallmadge area and that thisflow was a function of the potential drop from the force main to the GorgeSubstation negative bus. A study of the geology and topography of the country betweenTallmadge and the Gorge Substation disclosed the fact that there was analmost continuous low resistance path, due to creek beds and wet current was simply following this path. Having established the fact that there was a measurable flow ofcurrent off the force main near Tallmadge directly across co
. Journal of the New England Water Works Association . s aflow of current off of the force main in the Tallmadge area and that thisflow was a function of the potential drop from the force main to the GorgeSubstation negative bus. A study of the geology and topography of the country betweenTallmadge and the Gorge Substation disclosed the fact that there was analmost continuous low resistance path, due to creek beds and wet current was simply following this path. Having established the fact that there was a measurable flow ofcurrent off the force main near Tallmadge directly across country to theGorge Substation, it was then necessary to determine the reason for thecurrent taking this long, roundabout and comparatively high-resistancepath. At least one contributing cause was found to have been in the L73 rather long stretch of poorly bonded track between the High Street Sub-station and the Gorge Substation. Thus, a certain pari of the poweroriginating in the( Jorge Substation positive feeders had to find its way back. to the Gorge Substation negative bus by another path than the high-resistance rail circuit. This iiirrement of eurreui then followed I he tracksof the railway system into the High Street Substation and thence througha bonded connection into the city water system and into the steel force 174 INVESTIGATION OF ELECTROLYSIS. main. It should be pointed out that the route followed by the railway, aswell as the City of Akron, is all on high well-drained and consequentlydry ground, so that there were no low-resistance ground paths by which thiscurrent might have taken a shorter route to the Gorge Substation. With the above information, it became a simple matter to eliminatethe flow of current on the force main. This was done by thoroughly bondingthe tracks, especially in the locality mentioned above, and by running out anegative feeder from the Gorge Substation, in the direction of High feeder was not tied to the tracks for a
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