| Introduction | Historical Background | Chronology | Geography | Biography | Technology | Ownership and Financing | General Bibliography |
| Middle Atlantic States | Pennsylvania | Carbondale |
Carbondale was incorporated as city in 1851.
The Carbondale City Water Company was incorporated on March 21, 1866 by B. M’Tighe, John E. Brown, Anthony Nealon, John M. Poore, John Nealon, Richard Foote and T. Voyle. It does not appear that this company built anything.
The Crystal Lake Water Company was incorporated on August 19, 1867 by Joseph A. Van Berger, William Henry Richmond and others. The company built a gravity system that began operating in 1868.
The company expanded and was eventually acquired by the Scranton Gas & Water Company, and eventually became part of the American Water Works Company.
Water is provided by Pennsylvania American Water.
References
1866 An act to incorporate the Carbondale City
Water Company. March 21, 1866
1867 Crystal Lake Water Company incorporated. August 19, 1867.
1867 "New
Water Company," The Luzerne Union (Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania), August 28, 1867, Page 2.
The Crystal Lake Water Company of this place was incorporated by decree of
the court last week. It is the intention of the company, we
understand, to proceed at once with the erection of their works and the
introduction of water. Complaints are bitter and deep about the
extortion of the old company, and our citizens would hail with delight a
company which would supply water within the bounds of reason. The
borough of Norristown, not much larger than this place, with expensive
pumping machinery, is supplied with water at about one fourth the price
charged here, where the water runs down the pipes with a natural fall from
the mountains, and no expense but original cost in pipe-laying and
repairs.
1882 Carbondale, from Engineering News, 9:50 (February 11, 1882)
1882 Carbondale from "The Water-Supply of Certain Cities and Towns of the United States," by Walter G. Elliot, C. E., Ph. D.
1888 "Carbondale," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 1.
1890 "Carbondale," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 2.
1891 "Carbondale," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 3.
1897 "Carbondale," from Manual of American Water Works, Volume 4.
1897 Portrait
and Biographical Record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, by
Chapman Publishing Company
Pages 377-378: Joseph B. Van Bergen. Being president of the
Crystal Lake Water Company that furnishes the city with its fine system of
water works and was one of its organizers.
1905 "Scranton
Gas & Water has acquired properties of Consolidated Company," The
Scranton Truth, June 27, 1905, Page 2.
Crystal Lake Water Company
1907 "Rates
are to high," The Scranton Republican, December 17, 1907,
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1917 "The
Grand Old Man of Scranton," by Frank Allaben,
The Journal of American History 11(4):421-443 (July, 1917)
Page 442: William Henry Richmond. He was the projector and
chief stockholder of the Crystal Lake Water Company.
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