Olten fountains #12 Gheid
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the-stooss
N 47° 20.620 E 007° 53.247
32T E 415962 N 5243955
In Switzerland are all fountain filled with drinking water. should not it be, it must be clearly declared "No drink water"
Waymark Code: WMMNXP
Location: Solothurn, Switzerland
Date Posted: 10/16/2014
Views: 13
After the inhabitants of the town of Olten had more than quadrupled in consequence of the railway from 1850 to 1900, the drinking water supply had to be placed on a new basis: after mainly Jura sources around had been used previously, 1902 was in Gheid a first, now disused taken groundwater pumping station in operation, which had to be equipped with a second and a third in 1912 with pump set in 1906 already. 1945 to 1947 was followed by another step: Two new pumping stations were established; before the more easterly of the two has since been on Gheidweg a fountain with shallow trough and three cocks
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