Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts on Water-Supply and Sewerage: Under the Provisions of Chapter 274, of the Acts of 1886, January, 1888In response to your request to know whether subsoil waters have been found more satisfactory than pond waters we give you a summary of results reported to the Board up to the present. Of seven places which collect ground water and store it in Open earthen and masonry reservoirs, three report trouble, and four report no trouble. Of fourteen places so collecting and pumping into iron or masonry tanks, some of them covered, two report trouble, one which shows by analysis to be poor before being stored, and. Twelve places report no trouble. The surface water supplies, including both ponds and storage reservoirs, have given more trouble east of the Connecticut River than west of it in the mountainous region. Up to the present time the ground water supplies have given less trouble than surface water supplies, and the ground water supplies are far more satisfactory when used directly after being drawn or with as little storage as practicable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.