This Day in History: 1954-05-03
At the Township Committee meeting, Mayor Charles Feldmann reported on the progress made toward filling the water needs of the new Ford plant. The manufacturing plant was expected to require about a million gallons of water a day. They had given $300,000 on December 28, 1953 to pay for the engineering studies toward constructing a storage plant at the plant. The Mayor announced that four test wells had been drilled south of Route 17 near the river. They were capable of producing a million and a half gallons of water a day, far above the needs of the plant. When asked if any of the surplus would be diverted to domestic use, Feldmann said that there was plenty of capacity for home use in the existing system. When the demand rose, these wells would be hooked-up with the regular system, he stated. (Bristow)