Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1908 [PAGE 36]

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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS,

[Sept. 25

supplies and equipment, and such other incidental purchases and expenses as may be determined on by the Board of Control with the approval and consent of the representatives of said parties. Proviso:—In view of the fact that the State Board of Health has furnished a bacteriologist, at a salary of $1,000 per year, whose services are available for the proposed cooperative investigation, and has agreed that the Sanitary Engineer of the State Board of Health will collect samples from sewage disposal works, and that the medical inspector will collect water from suspected supplies, the contribution by the party of the second part is made with the understanding that the party of the second part shall be free to make for the State Board of Health, bacteriological and chemical examinations of suspected water and of sewage, not to exceed 500 in number. 7. That the one thousand dollars contributed by the party of the fourth part shall be expended as follows: (1) Seven hundred dollars to be expended by and under the direction of saide party of the fourth part in conference with the administrative director of these investigations; of which five hundred and fifty dollars shall be devoted to a study of the ground waters of the East St. Louis district, and one hundred and fifty dollars to the collection and transportation of samples of well waters from selected points throughout% the State, and to preliminary studies of the water horizons of the State. (2) Three hundred dollars of the money contributed shall be expended by said administrative officer for salaries, chemicals, or incidental expenses of this investigation as he shall deem best. 8. That the party of the second part shall provide a suitably equipped laboratory for chemical and bacteriological work, and that in case it shall be necessary to provide extra equipment for the purposes of the investigations herein specified, the cost of such additional equipment shall be paid from any moneys remaining in the fund not otherwise allotted. 9. That there shall be established along the rivers and at points designated by the Board of Control sampling stations from which there shall be sent daily samples to the laboratory of the State Water Survey at Urbana, such samples to be sent by mail in four-ounce bottles, under the authority of the party of the first part and with the franking privilege accorded to such party by law. That these samples shall be stored for definite periods in such laboratory, and analyses of the composite from each sampling station shall be made at intervals to be determined by the Board of Control. That the determinations to be made upon such composite samples shall be determined by the Board of Control and when not otherwise specified shall be the following: . * ' ' Silica Iron Alumina Calcium Magnesium Sodium Potassium Sulphur Trioxide Chlorine Carbon Dioxide Turbidity (U. S. Geological Survey Standard) Suspended matter and Dissolved solids, such determinations to be expressed in parts per million and in ionic form. 10. That samples of ground waters from points designated by the Board of Control shall be sent to the above designated laboratory for mineral analysis, the determination and expression of results to be the same as that described in the foregoing section of this agreement, and in addition thereto shall be made such other special determinations for defined purposes as may be agreed upon and directed by the Board of Control. 11. That there shall be carried on special experiments upon the effect of various Illinois waters upon steam producing boilers which shall include a study of the types of such waters with reference to their reaction in boilers, the methods of analysis and the methods of installation of steam apparatus indicated by the various chemical processes revealed and also the corrosion