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1 1 . 1 Mr. Kimball asked again how many test wells were driven before they decided on this location. Mr. Crocker said that he did not know, as he was notthere. Their men were looking around Bedford for two and one-half months,and he imagined when they did find a location they were so glad to find it that they stopped making the tests. Mr. Glynn asked how much of an investment the company had in the wells as they stand now, and Mr. Crocker said that they had paid $14,000. to the Layne Bowler Company so far for what has been done. He said that the N. E. Water Supply Corp. puts up the money, but does not do the construction work. He said that the pipe line would run up into real money. Mr. Kimball asked if they intended to landscape the houses when they got through, and Mr. Crocker said that they did. They intend to have copper shutters rather than windows. Mr. Samuel Kalesky, attorney, said he represented three of the neighboring land -owners: Messrs. Melanson, Hurts do, and Defelice. He asked if the N. E. Water Supply Corporation was a Massachusetts Corporation, and Mr. Crocker replied in the affirmative. Kalesky asked it it was incorporated under the business laws of this Commonwealth, and Mr. Crocker answered in the affirmative. Kalesky asked if there were regular stock- holders, etc., and Crocker said that there were. Kalesky said that this was purely a business venture, then. Mr. Charles A. Linehan said that his family had owned land in this section for sixty or seventy years, and that portion of the land which was taken by this company was waste land, and there was a pit behind it which was never used. Mr. Crocker said that the water would be drawn fifty feet below the grround, and would be taken from an area five miles square. Mr. Kalesky asked upon what he based his figure that there were billions of gallons of water there, and Mr. Crocker said it was based on the water shed. Mr. Paul Bowler appeared before the Board. He said that more water fell on the gravel pit per year alone than would be taken out of the ground for the Veteran's Hospital. He said they would draw ninety million gallons of water per year, and that would represent the rain fall over ninety acres of land per year. It would make no perceptible difference in the water level. Mr. Kalesky asked how he could Guaranty the abutters that their water level would not be lowered and their soil made dry. Mr. Bowler said that the water level would not be effected; indeed, one could not tell in the pit itself that there was any lowering. Mr. Kalesky asked what would happen in the dry period. Mr. Bowler said that the reservoir was forty feet deep, of which 33 1/3% was void. There is a ten foot depth of water under that area, and in one acre of ground there is 3,000,000 of water stored. There are two hundred acres of ground in the gravel pit, or perhaps three hundred. The water in storage is replenished by each rainfall. Mr. Kalesky asked what there was to prevent them from getting the same results elsewhere. Mr. Bowler said that 143