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Bob Baughman, the Chief of Parks
Maintenance
found this brochure that was, apparently, created
to celebrate
the opening of the Fountain at "Dallas Thomas"
Park.
Now known as "Friendship Park"
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Bob Baughman was kind enough
to provide some information that
he has found concerning Friendship
Fountain.
Friendship Park, as it is called
today was originally named
Dallas Thomas Park
Apparently after a City Commissioner
Who was, according to information
provided by Bill Foley of the Times Union,
was one of four commissioners
that served with Haydon Burns and was
last re-elected in 1963 and
was indicted at some point after the Fountain
was named after him, hence the
name change !
Construction of the Fountain
was started in 1963 and completed in 1965,
and according to Bob, very difficult
to find parts for the
maintenance and repair of various
pumps that operate the Fountain.
Here is the text of an undated
- unsigned memo that Bob found in his office !
OFFICE
OF PARK DEPT.
CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville
6, Florida
DALLAS
L. THOMAS PARK
JACKSONVILLE,
FLORIDA
DESCRIPTION
AND OPERATION OF FOUNTAIN
The
fountain consists, briefly, of three water effects operating in a basin
200 feet in
diameter.
For Simplicity, these water effects are designed as outer, middle and
center.
The outer effect consists of 36 nozzles, equally spaced around the perimeter
of
the pool, projecting a stream of water inwards at an angle of 45 degrees
which rises
to
a height of approximately 35 feet. The middle consists of 18 nozzles
on approximate-
ly
a 120 foot diameter, operating vertically, rising to a height of 40 feet;
the center
effect
consists of 9 nozzles on a 15 foot diameter, operating vertically, rising
to a
height
of approximately 100 to 120 feet.
The
motor operating the outer nozzles is 250 horsepower with a pump capacity
of 6,750
gallons
per minute. The motor operating the middle effect is 150 horsepower
with a
pump
capacity of 4,500 gallons per minute and the center effect motor is 350
horsepower
with
a pump capacity of 5,500 gallons per minute. With all motors and
pumps running
full
capacity, with no wind velocity, there will be approximately 17,000 gallons
of
water
in the air each minute.
Each
nozzle has four light of the following colors: Dark Red, light red, turquoise
and
amber.
The total number of lights is 252.
The
fountain can be operated either manually or automatically, if automatically
it will
be
on a punched tape. In operating manually, the operator can control
all lighting
effects
or individual and collective pump operation at will. In operating
automatically,
a program
has to be made up as to the lighting and pumping effects and this is put
on
punched
tape. In using punched tape, there is no limit as to how long the
program can
run.
The
height of the center nozzle was a wind instrument control that will limit
the height
according
to the speed of the wind. For example, if the wind is less than 5
miles per
hour,
the center nozzle will rise 100 to 115 feet. With wind speed from
5 to 15 miles
an
hour, the height of the center nozzle will only go to 70 feet. If
the wind speed
exceeds
15 miles an hour, the height of the center nozzle will only rise to approximately
50
feet. The reason for this is to control the blow-off of the water onto
the park and
persons
observing the operation of the fountain.
The
operation of the fountain can be put on an automatic time clock.
This time clock
can
be set so the fountain will turn on at any given time automatically and
has to be
used
in conjunction with a tape program. Also, in conjunction with this,
we have
another
time clock set for sunset hours which will allow the lights to come on
as the
lights
cannot be seen during daylight hours.
There
are approximately 500,000 gallons of water in the fountain and connecting
lines.
This
water is going through a continuous filtration system, taking out foreign
objects
and
sand. Liquid chlorine is used to control allergy, slime, etc.
At present,
the fountain is operated Monday through Friday from 11:30 A.M. to 1:30
P.M.
and
from 7:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M.; Saturday from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. and Sundays
from
1:00 P.M. through 9:30 P.M.
(NOTE: I attempted to recreate this
document as closely as possible in type face,
layout, spelling and punctuation. Yes the original document said allergy
not
algae..... Bob@WolfStalks.Com)
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