San Antonio City Water Board Annual Report: 1970 Page: 16
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4027 Willowbrook is one of many ex-
amples of the City Water Board's land-
scaped, attractively kept facilities. It has
been the long established policy of the
Board to design and maintain its many
utilitarian structures located on 125
widely distributed acres so that they are
pleasing additions to the surrounding
areas.
(Right) Board specialists maintain un-
ending vigilance over the purity of San
Antonio's water supply. Here, a laboratory
technician tests for the amount of chlo-
rine residual in the supply. Approximate-
ly 5,000 samples are taken from the
distribution system annually, and an
additional 1,000 job samples involving
new main construction projects are
tested.
(Left) The Board maintains an Investi-
gation Section to assist customers in
locating and solving problems within
their own yard and house piping. Inves-
tigators in this photograph are conduct-
ing a water flow test to determine the
cubic feet of water per minute being
delivered to a customer.
(Right) Probably the best known of the
Boards employees are its Boys in Blue,
its meter readers, a carefully trained
and supervised group who read clock-
wise around the city, completing one cycle
or area each working day. In 1970 they
read a total of approximately 1,800,000
meters.
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