The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-13
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practicai Engineering and Sanitary
Scisnce-The Waring Sewer at Buff
falo, n. Y, an ne. neering Failure.
Editor Morning Ae'rs: In this paper
have EXPOSED large number of very grave
defects in the Warning plan for the house
drainage Of the main body Of this city lying
!,otueen Bav. Anderson, West Bread and
Fast Broad streets. am vel aware that
Mr. Warnings reputation as a sanitary en-
-,i,,oaY oives that plan serious consideration,
I'D would personally as cheerfully in
visa the WGriug plan as any other,
Notwithstanding the rather supercilious
tone of some of Mr.. Warnings letters affect
+;rc myself, if that plan conformed to
nrsctical engine ering requirements, SAM
ts1-v necessities, economy of construction,
aud the plan of tie city. Blu, convinced as
: am that its engineering is greatly al
farIt chat it violates sanitary laws with
.heol1te ignorance or recklessness, and that
,,,,cf of It's cost will be e7stravagant waste
f,j1ess ( would gravely rail in my duty to
Nv citv and my fellow-citizeps did ] hest
,eta at showing the causes for dissatisfac-
ton which are so clear to my own judg-
,,onf. and which / will endeavor to make
souaIlv clear to the Judgment of this com
munity.
rIn
Whitaker and West Broad STREETS and
nortb of Gwinnett, he runs a ma from
Cwinnett street. along Tatna.l to WAYNE,
tbence TO Barnard, uniting with another
limo OF Barnard star ting at Hall and running
nortward along Barnard to Perry lane.
men down Perry lane to East Broad, and
thence back southwark along Est Broad 10
Bolton--a total distance of about 10000
feet To tap West Broad and Hall would
IL, Sill fact h,Jt hA iaft fhat
secfiop out, possibly because The level at
that point was little too low for his calcu-
lations At CASTOR and Jefferson, or Tat
nall. whsre the surface level is forty-two. he
wouId have to place his sewer at
thirty-eight to get it four feet
under ground. Now to carry it from there
N Perry lane and Barnard street, about
900 feet by his lines, with a fall Of only
: inches to 100 feet would make the sewer
r. feet deep at Barnard and Perry lane, and
about 10 feet deep at Bull street and Perry
,aue-the distance by his line from CASTOR
and jefferson to Sui and Perry lane being
200 to 5000 feet, aud the surface level al
the latter point being four feel higher
than the point he starts from-that Is. the
junction at CASTOR and Jefferson. From
his point to Bull and Perry lane, with the
limited grade fall of only : inches to 100
feet. his sewer would still be over IL feet
deem ct Barnard and Perry lane, and about
70 feet deep at Bull and Perry lane And to
get the contents of the sewers at Tattnall
and Gwlnnett, and West Broad and Hunt
inpdon to East Broad and Bolton by his
line requires such great depth of his sewer
and over 10000 feet of distance.
Now. my plan sinks adeep central receiv-
ing main ON Hall street, commencing at or
west of West Broad street Qt being possible
that upon obtaining accurate levels this
Hail street main may enable us to drain
most of the section between Jones, Ander-
son. West Broad and Cemetery streets, a
district entirely left out in Mr.. Warning
plans, thence directly across the park to
Abercorn street, thence curving into Hall
lane and following Natures natural dOlCn
0rdde to East Broad street. Between a
sewer level of 40 az West Broad and the
saver bottom of about r. 6 at East Broad, q
distance of about 1900 feet, we have fall
of % feet inches-an average grade fall OF
about 7 inches to 100 feet, and nearly three
times as much as Mr.. Warnings Barnard
street line to Perry lane. So that if the
character OF the surface will permit,
there is no reason why we cannot extend
this Hall street main line further west than
West Broad street by simply sinking it 6
little lower Conhning myself for this dis
cMsion, however, to the locality east OF
West Broad street, covered by Mr.. War
ing's plans, it is clear that | obtain better
drainage by my 4,000-feet line than he does
with bis 10,O00-feet line. This central Hall
street main taps every spot west of the
park to West Broad street, and between
Wayne and Waldburg, by laterals having
from So to inches fall TO every 100 feet,
and reaches out by equally excellent lines
north OF the park TO Taylor and east of the
park to Abercorn. In addition to all this,
gain about feet more grade fall by going
directly across to Hall lane and East Broad
instead of making the long detour by Bar
nard street and Perry lane to the intersec-
tion with the sewer at Perry lane and East
Broad, where it is almost feoo higher thar
1t is at East Broad and Hall lane.
do not think it requires a very great
crpcrt to see with his naked eyes tnat the
natural fall for the watershed sl0ping
southwark from Taylor along Jefferson
and Tattnall towards Huntingdon, and be-
tween Whitaker and Abercorn along Dray-
ton toward Hall, and eastward from Mont
gomery aud Gwinnett, is across the park
and down the natural declivity east of it t.
East Broad street Why an expert
should take 10000 feet of line to do what
can be far better accomplished with 4,00C
feet, is one of these eccentricities of engin
eering of which we had a costly sample in
the Casey canal. Every man with two
eyes in his head could see that the expert
mapped out by an erpert, the folly went
on We paid for our experience in expert
ism, and had to do the work over again il
accordance with common sense and les:
expert" direction And that is just where
This part of Mr.. Warnings plans will lane
as.
Another very grave objection TO his Bar
nard street line is that it is almost entirely
cutting across squares and away from tbs
very houses it ought to drain, thereby
greatly Increasing the cost of house-connec
lions. The extent of piping running
through the squares on this street is very
considerable, and mostly unnecessary, be
sdes seriously lmpairing the possible de
nands on the squres hereafter for monu-
mental and other purposes, etc.
Let me give Il specimen OF his work OF
this kind: Starting With pipe in Melon
ough street, abreast of the Habersham
house, be carries it across Jefferson and
Montgomery streets, through the centre OF
Ebert square, to West Broad street, and
thence along West Broad, and down Perry
lane, again eastward to Barnard street,
50 that a water-fiow from the Habersham
house has to travel about 2, 900 feet to gel
abreast Of where it started from. A
lateral on jefferson street, from the rear OF
The residence, running to Perry lane, about
100 feet would gain all the fall acquired by