ER Vol. 75 No. 31 August 13, 1975 R. D. 3 Monte 1 . cho. Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. JOY, SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN ony der Ten Cents Divers work at night beneath Susquehanna, repair Marietta’s pipe to York Co. reservoir Teams of scuba divers worked around the clock last week to mend a broken water pipeline beneath the Susquehanna. The pipeline helps supply Marietta. Most of Marietta’s water is pumped from wells near Chique’s Rock, so the town’s water supply was not cut off when the pipeline broke. The leak was pinpointed by pumping compressed air through the pipeline. Divers followed the resulting stream of bubbles to the bottom of the river. Mike and Paul Strube assemble their equipment. Paul Minnich gets ready to tow them out to the channel. The sun is setting. Paul Strube takes care of things on surface, while brother Mike works far below on floor of Susquehanna They discovered that the leaking section of pipe was buried beneath 4 feet of sand and gravel. Six scuba divers, employed by William Strube of Marietta, worked for 3 days to uncover the pipe. One team kept working in the murky water until 3 a.m., digging by hand and with pumps. The leak was repaired by 10 p.m., Saturday The pipeline provides an extra volume of water in case of fire. It also allows excess water from the Marietta wells to be stored in a York County reservoir. The pipeline is owned and operated by the Marietta Gravity Water Company. It is part of a nineteenth century water supply system which still supplements the company’s modern pumping equipment at Chique’s. Mademoiselle Celeste and her two very talented chimpanzees who will be coming to Mount Joy’s Borough Park with Lewis Brothers’ Circus August 20, for two shows, at 6 and 8 p.m., sponsored by the Mount Joy Jaycees. Mount Joy Boro Council acts on tennis courts, bridge, etc. Local tennis players will be happy to learn that Mount Joy Boro has re- ceived permission from the Mike Strube examines his gear before a dive. It is hive o’clock. He has been working all day. The previous night he worked till 3 a.m. state to put out bids for resurfacing the tennis courts in the park. Other news that came out at the Borough Council meeting this past Monday night was that a letter had been received from the state about widening the bridge at the east end of Main Street. (Lucy Haines fought to make this bridge safer.) The state asked the Borough to pay 30 per cent of the costs of providing a walkway Council authorized Bo- rough Manager Bateman to write a letter to local merchants, giving details of costs of building a mer- chants parking lot behind Sloan's Pharmacy. Twenty of the thirty parking lots would be metered, ten would be for merchants’ employees. Council approved placing a stop sign at exit from Springfield Garden Apart- ments onto Donegal Springs Road and a ‘““Watch Child- ren’’ sign on Church Street. Manager Bateman was authorized to draw up a list of properties to be up- graded with federal monies available under the Com- munity Development Act. (Continued on page 2)
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