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TABLE I. 
Parts 
P£r Million 
Total solids 1029.0 
CaS0 4 561.3 
GaCOg 305.8 
MgCOs - 134.5 
Pe 2 0 3 and ALO. 1.6 
SiO, ’ 5.0 
Nad 20.0 
C0 2 91.5 
Free ammonia 0.048 
Albuminoid ammonia 0.072 
Nitrates 0.34 
. While unusually hard, the water shows rather unusual free- 
dom from organic contamination. 
The proposed supply for the city, the water from Florence 
creek, is of a very different quality. It lies about twenty miles 
north of the city of Oneida. The stream is fourteen miles long 
and the watershed averages one and a fourth miles in width, 
comprising an area of seventeen square miles. In the locality 
of the stream is the greatest amount of precipitation to be 
found in New York state. The streams in that section receive 
an average flaw of one million gallons daily for each square 
mile of watershed, so the daily average for Florence creek would 
be seventeen millions of gallons. 
The main reservoir to hold two hundred millions of gallons 
will be located at the hamlet of Glenmore, and if necessary to 
meet the needs - of the growing city, another reservoir to hold 
five hundred millions of gallons can be constructed farther up 
the stream. The watershed is very sparsely settled, containing 
scarcely one residence per square mile, and the danger of con- 
tamination is accordingly very slight. The sides of the valley 
are steep and wooded, about a hundred feet in height, and the 
bed of the stream is rocky for the most part and the current is 
quite swift. The stream is several hundred feet higher than 
Oneida, so the water can easily be delivered by the gravity sys- 
tem. An analysis of the water gave the result shown in Table II. 
