April / May / June Arrow

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I enjoyed the article on the new Pritchard coal and water station. The content reflects similar information I have been gathering on Dorney, Ohio. So imagine my surprise when I found, in the shaded box on page 21, some new information on Dorney; specifically the date the treated water tanks were installed (1924). My best guess had been 1925, based on a local newspaper articles describing a new supply line to Dorney, and improvements in its treatment plant. 

The lead sentence of the gray box - that the subject of water facilities aren’t well covered in the Arrow, and not well known in the N&W community - is, I think, correct. It’s a topic that has interested me quite a bit in the past several years, so I was very pleased to see this topic float up!

Matt Goodman

P.S., I also wondered in passing, whether my and Mike Rector’s many questions about water tanks might have prompted that shaded box!