Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-18

year. Filed.
From the Board of City Improvements,
that they have received proposals for the
| construction of Hamilton street branch
sewer and branches, from the following gen
tlemen: VIM. Given, John Given, David
Fosdick, Day and Daley, and Southworth
and Williams. Southworth and Williams,
being the lowest bidders, the Board recon-
mended that their bid be accepted. Filed.
From the property owners and agents on
Whitman street, in favor of paving the
sidewalks of said street, as provided by
ordinance Of March 27th, 1866. Filed.
From 81 citizens, demonstrating against
the laying of q street railroad track on Lo-
rain street, West Side. Board of City I'm
provements.
From the Board of Infrmary, that i'm
mediate steps are necessary to provide g
suitable place, for temporary purposes, fol-
the insane men at the Infrmary, n re-
commend the following resolution. LSee
resolutiOns.l
REPORTS.
Annual report of the City Physician and
Health Officer. To be printed in annual
financial report.
Of the committee to report upon the prac-
tieability and expediency of constructing
a main sewer extending Eom the foot Of
Eagle street to Lake Erie. Received, re-
ferred TO the Bosrd of City Improvements
and ordered printed.
The following is the report;
REPORT ON THE PROPOSED MAIN SEWER
Your Committee, to whom was assigned
the duty Of investigating the p~raetieability
and e~xpediency Of constructing a Main
Sewer, extending from the foot of Eagle
street to Lake Erie, and designed as an out
let to all the sewers discharging into the
| Cuyahoga River on the East Side, would re-
sp~ectfully make the following
REPORT.
In commencing this report, your Com
mittee deem it best tia. the Council should
fully appreciate the advantages TO be de-
rived from the construction of the proposed
sewer.
All will readily admit that if we wish to
make Clevelond q great commercial entire
pot, the Cuyahoga River, which constitutes
its harbor, must be kept free from all OBJ
structions for by this means only can
shipping possess the necessary facilities for
receiving and discharging cargoes.
For the past three years, 1858, "a and '65,
the amount paid by the city for dredging
the river was S32, 32S.e5, or an annual aver
age Of nearly SIl, 600. The special amounts
paid for removing deposits accumulated at
the mouths of the five sewers named below,
was as follows
Columbus, or Bridge St. sewer-....S s25 SIS
James St. Sewer, under SextoL's
Block...... INA 70
st. Clair st. Sewer--.."-...."-..". As 90
Front St ..-...... ZbS 5O
Center ST. Sewer.."."."-...".-".. 15S 90
s244l so
But the above only indicates a small pro-
portion of what the total amount of sewer
age deposits must necessarily have been.
For it is evident hat the principal por-
ton of all the ordure and waste discharged
into the river by the sewers referred to
must lave been carried away by its current
and deposited in its channel towards its
mouth. q
Besides these, sewers will eventually have
to be constructed in all the streets between
Erie street and the Ohio canal, and between
Hursn street and a line frsm Kinsman
street, to the canal, a little east of Cross
street. The sewers which would be discharg-
ed into the Canal street Main Sewer, are,
the Spring street branch, st. Clair street
branch, Superior street branch, James street
Main, Seneca street branch, Huron street
drain, and Eagle street main.
Sewers from Michigan, Champlsin, Vine
yard, Long, Superior, Union, Water, St.
Clair, Bank, Lake and Front streets will,
when built, also discharge into the proposed
Main Sewer; but unless the latter is con-
structed, must, necessarily, find their only
outlet in the Cuyahoga river.
In view, then, ofthe great amount of mat
ter now discharged into the river by the ex-
isting sewers, and of the immence prospec-
tive increase when the sewers above named
shall be built, it is evident that this Main
Cn.a- - an Il, nr,rapnap uhsoh has a1raal-
been too long delayed.
The Bard ofWster Works Commissioners
recognizing the importance, on sanitary
considerations, Of preventing the discharge
of impurities into the river, presented to the
Council, 8 few weeks since, an ordinance
recommending its passage by this body,
prohibiting any foul or polluting substances
from being thrown or emptied, or suffered
to run from msnufactories into the river.
The total length of the proposed Main
Sewer, from the foot of Eagle street to Lake
Erie Is $500 feet; hence the entire amount
of frontage, computed, of course, on both
sides of the sewer, is $4,000 feet.
A portion of this lying on James and
Champlain streets, where sewerage tax has
already been paid, and that portion lying
along the line of the C. C. 4 C. Railroad
track is not subject 70 special assessment.
The frontage so exempted is about $500 feet;
leaving q taxable frontage of a like dis
lance.
Your Committee would therefore recon-
mend that the Board of City Improvements
be authorized to prepare an ordinance for
the construction of a sewer, to be designated
as the Canal street main sewer the same
to be of adequate size to receive and dis
charge the sewerage and surface water from
all the lateral drains that are ever likely 10
be built connecting with it, and also large
enough to permit of its being extended, when
necessary, to the south end of Canal street,
as now laid out, a distance of over 5000 feet
additional.
The route proposed is as follows:
Beginning at the shore of Lake Erie under
the present Union Passenger Depot, and
running thence southerly along the line of
the c. c. & c. Railroad to where it crosses
St Clair street thence along east River
street and across Superior street hill to Mer-
win street; thence along Merwin street to
James street thence along James street to
C~hamplain street thence through Cham
plain street to Canal street thence through
Canal street to the foot of Eagle street.
The average cut will not exceed seventeen
feet, being about two snd one-half feet more
than the average cut for our other Main
Sewers.
There is q difference of elevation suff-
cient to give a uniform grade of something
over one foot in four hundred showing
clesrly that there are no engineering diff
culties to be overcome.
The estimated cost of the work is about
81, 600 in cash. This estimate is based
npon the present prices of labor and ma
terials and is likely to be somewhat less by
the time the work is ready to be done. If
paid, however, in Sewerage bonds, the cost
would be increased about ten per cent.
The City should pay from the General
Fund an amount that would be equal to
the special assessment if levied on the IN
frontage, notexceeding in all 1000.
balance of the cost, in excess of the
amount realized by special tax on the foot
front, to be levied upon the Sewerage dis
triet for such number of years, limited bv
law, as the Board of City Improvements
may deem advisable.
All of which is most respectfully submit
ted THOMAS JONES, Jr.
F. W. PELroz.
JOSEPH SrUReEs.
c. c. ROGERS.
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