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"FISHY" WATER

PROBLEM HERB AND ELSEW'IiUSHK Tlmnlts Iβ eorJ.y itljcl hcary rains <h\s iii.y; the nutnft;n Wellington was t-roubM with "iishy" water" for _<$ul,y two or three weeks this year, wlikh is.only half the time that the nuisance lasted in t'lio mitmiui lost year. Tlicro is a certain satisfaction in tenoning the cause <£ tiro tamt, -stud t.o bo on oii.y emission, from a species of wnkf plant, life, Wellington's nfjniuil estperi* «ieo is. wot a pleasant ona. So far nq tho public, is concenwl no sksiimU* moans cl 1 .abating the nuisance has boon propounded.

.Mr. Dines, t]?o YvolliHgtoii waterworks ovwsen-r, has evoked tho theory that tho oil or essene. i'nwi the a.lgao which taints tlie wafer as a fluid ilrat oyapmirakvs oji being exposed to tho air in an open-mout-liod vessel. Me <lis» covered this accidentally through drawing off samples overnight Iβ take to tho office in tlie lVwwning. ITlio water stood ail night i.ii a tedwwn ewc-r, kit, w'fien produced at the office, it svas found that iho fishy tasto hail gone. This, Mr. Dines -canphtdes, is the best widc-nto in swpport of his thooyy tfelt tho oil rises to tlso top of tho tfator and tJH'ii evaporates. Tiro trouble, it 13 stated, is c.xpi?ri■oiigwl ;ill tivor the wwli—in Anifiricn, Eiifilam], and on the Continent ei Eumpe, and, in all riasp.s, i,k> ©ritloß-ee is mucn the sniwo. In Jxmte) receiitly fchs trouble* causcf] a good deal ol epeculntion, jmkl 01M paper, in a spirit of comedy,, attributed it to "tilm iiiadiiiiations of GeriMji Aftgbjihobists. 1 - , A late copy of an Eviglish jomiwl saysi— ■ .-"Tha water nolluiian , mystery at [ liiiißpst'oad atta ot:hor places in" the j London sutarbs lifts at last been sols-f'fl. J Uiidw the control/of Br, Alcxaitder HotlStou iiiV.CStigntio.ns have ; i)ecn nai , - riotl o«t cOHceroing t)in ■mclwdjiij; a -fishy tasto., that hatf! been noticed for some t-imo-iii t-W wnt*r siij)'■ply of t.j.10 wester-u area of the iiwtn)T»lis, with tlm result that the imp.ititv has boon found t<? bo quite harmless, It hits lyeeiT deKHM-islvrrf.ted to tlio satisfaetiftu of epc-rts that tho biiirS Tofpi-rod 1:o v.'as dvie to algne, ,1 speciss of plant Wβ \vhk'lt is very prolific', and it is this wliich aecoijirts fey tho'Wi}' tiirto of tlm watot of. wh-Wi the' jMjWio tavH coniplain-ctl tto affcc(:d ' Wate-r was talywi fmm tlio t'nvr at Biaines, iiitsj tlie reservoir, tlMsijeo it wa-s pumped to HaiiriJston, awl from tlions ifo Barnos, nhpro it tmdow-out a sormul storngß. Hem it tvas that tlie a.lgae was found." - "

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

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"FISHY" WATER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

"FISHY" WATER Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

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