Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-15
raTE 2 IFor the Ohio Statesman
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| Sewerage.
| The Importance of a thorough sewerage
system has been SO fully presented to the
people of Columbus within the last few
years as to leave but little to be said on the
subject.
But when change is about to be made
in our system of drainage, particularly
whensit involves an expenditure OF three
or four hundred thousand dollars, it is well
to see that the plan proposed will give us
what we desire, viz: q thorough system.
The repert of the Engineer made to the
City Council last week, showing his esti-
mates for trunk sewer extending from
MoeHer's dam northward through Fourth
street to Broad street, thence ON Broad
street to Seventh, and thence northward on
Seventh to Saint Patriek's Church and to
the pond in the pasture north OF the church,
to be nearly 100000. This sewer, Of
twelve feet in diameter, will be of much
advantage to that part of the city south OF
Broad and east of Fourth street, and will
also receive most of the surface water
south of State and east of High street.
But as there is now in Broad
street a sewer which may be
emptied into the new sewer at the inter.
section on Fourth street, it may be well to
inquire why the new sewer is not run
northward through Fourth street, so that
we may have all the drainage east OF
Fourth street carried south through the
new sewer. -lif
Believing our city fathers wish to adopt
the route which will be most conducive
to the general good, we will examine,
the main, and, to the writer, the
only known objection to passing up
Fourth street north Of, Broad
1t is said the cut in which the proposed
new sewer is to be constructed will, at the
corner of Fourth and Broad streets, be
twenty feet in depth, and the distance from
the top of the sewer to the surface of the
street will be eight feet; and inasmuch as
Fourth street at q point three squares
north of Broad is some eight feet lower,
the sewer, If constructed along Fourth,
would at Spring street crop out and leave
its arch exposed on level with the street
This would be fatal objection, if it could
not be removed. Now this end of Fourth
street has no public sewer, and the resi-
dents who often find water in their cellars
have no drainage. There is also. thrown
onto this street the drainage of Gay, Long
and Spring streets, from Seventh street and
still further east. This filth we all agree
should be carried off below the city, leav-
ing the least possible volume to pass into
ba ~ ryo oh fha
may be 50 carried by laying seven foot
sewer from the main sewer at Bread street
along Fourth street, thus securing depth
of some twelve feet to the top of the sewer,
from Broad to Gay, and coming nearer to
the surface as it goes northward; and with
three or four feet of covering at Spring it
will drain all the cellars in that vicinity,
and will be found of capacity sufficient to
carry off all the water of the once classic
Doe Run. e.
II Thence eastward on Spring street there
Is light cutting and abundant fall 40 feet
in two squares) to go as deep as may be
advisable, then following the natural water
channel the pond north of st. Patricks
Church is much more easily reached on
this route than by any other.
The difficulty of the fall in Fourth street
from Spring to Broad street is susceptible
of remedy, in part at least. by raising the
grade of Fourth near Spring, which can
readily be done from earth taken from the
cut for the sewer, and to this the owners
of property will willingly assent.
And finally should it prove necessary to
sink the cut south of Broad street foot
deeper, so as to give more fall in North
Fourth street, the increased cost will be
more than balanced by the reduced cost of
the work of cutting on Fourth, Spring and
Medary streets over the Broad street route,
and thus in selecting the lower route we
add tor the lines of drainage instead ofI
merely relaying an old and yet useful sew
er now existing on Broad street. j.