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Vol. 75 No. 31 August 13, 1975
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Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
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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.
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