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Jim, Kenneth,

Please ignore my previous reply, attempting to jest with Jim about 
straying into a seemingly unrelated topic, and Kenneth, thanks for the 
traffic info. I've been looking about for evidence that either plant 
ever had any rail access. Like Bluefield Yard, the greater Bluefield 
area straddles two water sheds, thus the need for two sewerage 
facilities, apparently neither with enough volume to rate a spur. The 
newer Westside plant (BTW, left of the bridge below) is a tertiary 
facility and Ada appears to be a retrofit. However, in the 1950s, what 
supplies for sewage treatment plants were likely hauled in by what type 
of rail car and transferred to truck at the local freight station or 
team track?

Mentioned earlier, former Bridge #835:



Grant Carpenter

On 5/16/2025 12:10 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> Mr. Carpenter:
> Sewerage plants require chlorine which is generally shipped in by 
> rail.  Depending on size of plant could be switched twice a month.
> Power plants if  they draw water from a natural source (river/lake)  
> will also use chlorine so there is no algae build-up in the condenser 
> water box.  Depending on plant and season, more in the summer than 
> wither chlorine cars would come a few times in summer and once in the 
> fall. Note in winter.
> In Detroit we have the worlds largest single site sewerage plant.  
> They get cars of chlorine and sulfur hxxhohide. Because there is a 
> 1,000 foot  discharge tunnel to the Detroit River they inject chlorine 
> as the water leaves the plant and halfway down they inject the sulphur 
> hexofloride to neutralize the chlorine before it enters the Detroit 
> River.  This is a Conrail DSAA switch.
> Kenneth Borg
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