New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-08

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d Ane soove engine ana wheels are calculated
e NE 's,Osi 'sO0 gallons Of water, feet high p
nour ana should % 90 arranged as to drive ont Il
i Waser unoef ordinary circumstances, and to lift
/ over the night OF the levees in severe and Ion
continued Noftherly storms, which back up the v
ters OF the lake several feet outside Of those erees
Inc last four sections are not exactly Of the san
area a. represented in the above division, but the i
. ference between them being slight, has been mel
iected without Affecting the general results Of th
Report. Whenever the work comes to be executed
tneir precise areas, ETC., can be determined wit
accuracy.
Inc mat two sections comprise now, but one an
tnas very drained by two wheels Of dife
ent placed at the intersection OF Bayou st. job
ana Hagan Avenue, one OF IS feet inches diameter
feet inches wide, and the other 20 feet inche
diameter, feet inches wide.
The cubic contents of the draining canals at prs
sent 10 use IN csc two sections exclusive Of gutter
and small bitches, are as follows: ~
For The 1st section 1890 c. feet or s II feet h ~
- = aec'lon' feei or 2oe9 c. feet to
Wnicn u indeed, very small proportion, altogethe
700 snal Tor perfect drainage then the two engine
ana wheels are placed together in one locality which
them TO destruction explosion of boiler
or ~ nres as has lately taken place. But as they are
oeing repaired and put In good ORDER they can, al
present % allowed to remain where they are for the
sake q economy. Another great objection to the
present. system y, that part Of the area drained,
having ia from tne river ridge to Rampant street
o. ieet inches and from thence to Claiborne street
OF ieet inches the rest being nearly level it fol-
tated At once upon the lower levels where thss
main until removed by the above draining engines.
which being very far off (nearly II mile) from the
foot Of the slope, and not provided with suciency
OF conduits :" or Canals perform their work very
slowly; indeed, lam informed Gas should have been
antcipated) that these lands remain sometimes TINS
submerged several days, to the injury Of residents
who live upon them, and to the detriment Of the
health of the city.* Whereas if another DRAINING
engine Of proper power had been erected near the
Intersection Of Galvez street Canal and Old Canal
as now propose, increasing the dimensions Of the
former, 20 as TO answer the purposes of Reservoir
and a discharge canal had been made along the Old
canal falling into the head Of Bayou ST. John, near
the site Of the present draining engine the waters of
the higher lands would have been removed at once.
or as fast az they would have accumulated into said
reservoir and the low lands below the latter. beino
separated from it by small leyee or an elevated
street, would have been drained at once Of their own
waters BY the engine at the head Of Bayou st. John
particularly IT section had been better provided
with small canals, leading into the existing ones a.
marked in dotted lines on the ACCOMPANYING skatcb
We would then have had for each Of these fwo aac