Overview of the Collection |
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| Repository: | Dallas Municpal Archives |
| Creator: | City of Dallas Office of the Mayor and City Council |
| Title: | Dallas Water Heater Hearing Proceedings and Report |
| Dates: | 1939 |
| Quantity: | .21 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Public hearing transcript and report. |
| Identification: | 91-054 |
| Language: | Records are in English |
One bound volume of typescript proceedings and one bound typescript report supplemented by graphs and charts.
Collection documents a public hearing held March 9, 1939 before the Dallas City Council to investigate complaints about water heaters being damaged by water delivered by the City of Dallas. Mr. S. Austin Weir, attorney, represented a group of petitioners who felt that Dallas water was not chemically treated sufficiently to prevent accelerated rusting of water heaters. Two experts in the chemistry field were asked for their professional opinions on water treatment and metal pipe corrosion, Dr. Eugene P. Schoch of the University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Arthur H. Hartsook of Rice University. According to the summary and conclusions of the City's report, "none of the major allegations...was sustained either in whole or in part by factual evidence or scientific testimony at the hearing...much of the testimony of the complainants' own scientist representative, Dr. Hartsook, tended to refute other testimony..."
Collection consists of one bound set of the public hearing transcripts and the summary report and conclusions reached following the hearing. These copies are the set that was placed in the City Secretary's Office.
Index Terms |
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| Dallas -- Texas -- History | ||
| Texas -- History | ||
| Water treatment plants --Texas -- Dallas. Dallas (Tex.). Water Utilities Dept. | ||
| Box | Folder | Title, Date |
| 1 | 1 | Water Heater Hearing, March 9, 1939, City Hall, Dallas Texas |
| 2 | Report on Water Heaters in Dallas, Texas, 1939 |