The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-10
The Sewerage Committee
Enlighten the Public.
FACTS FOB THE INTERESTED
a Plentiful Water Supply and q
Practical Method OF DispOsing
OF The Sewerage.

| City Hall bell Change out the hour o.
| 7, Councillor Sowles and HERALD re
porter were the only persons present
Within few minutes, however, 8
quorum strolled in, and after the usual
preliminari=s the business CT the night
was opened by the Mayors call for
PETITIONS.
Residents of First West Street, be-
tween First South and Second South,
asked that two additional street lamps
b. placed in that vicioity. more light
was mUcn needed. Referred to the
COMMITTEES on improvements.
II. j. Williams represented that he
had heretofore b en- granted the
privilege of keeping small fruit stand
near the Deseret Bank corner. He
now, however. desire to remove to the
Cunnipgton corner, where Mr.. Gun
nington had tendered him the right to
erect his stand. He hoped the petition
would be granted, in which case he
Two i'd ever pray for the good and
welfare of the municipality" 1t was
granted.
Five licenses were granted to retail
liquor dealers, and q wholesale license
to Y. c. NJ. l.
William Burrows, who resides on l
Street asker that he be allowed to tap
the wafer main. Committee on water
works.
a similar pc ition from G. Wellock,
who resides on Tenth East, was re-
1erred to the same committee.
FoRN1NsT THE SEWERAGE.
]. P. Mortensen protested against the
laying of sewer late al in trout of his
property on Franklin Avenue. owing to
lack of water and general ignorance OF
the subject; or words of similar import.
W. ]. Silver relieved himself as fol
lows: AS near as l can understand,
from he description of Sewer District
No. L. my property on North Temple
Street is included in it. l therefore
enter my protest against this measure,
as l do not cons; der the benefit TO be
derived therefrom equivalent to thu in
crease of taxation. Farther, from the
present appearances, ! consider it a
scheme in the interest OF spectators,
which will result in selling out many
of the original proprietcrs, and | am
s)rry 10 fad that our City
Council has consented to he a
party to il. II MIR. LoWrie had really
been the engineer he processes to be,
he never would have advised a system
without practical outlet, as there are
large portions of this city that have no
drainage, because they lie on ground
so fat as not to be practicable without
M sin, respectfully, WIN. j. SILVER"
t. G. Armstrong, ST., was granted
the privilege of laying a plank bridge
premises Oh First south Street, during
the pleasure Of the Council.
LIGHT ON THE SEWERAGE QUESTION.
The sewerage committee preser ted
the following report:
Your committee to whom was re-
ferred the question Of the cost of sew
erage main for Salt Lake City, method
ana place for disposal or sewage, water
supply for flushing, etc., beg leave to
report that, owing to the unusual press
of business on the members OF this COM
mittee during Conference week." the
hereby offered is not as full
and the details not as complete as we
could desire.
The first question that naturally
arises is: "Is sewerage system nsces-
sary at all?" On this point your COM
mttee will say that perhaps in no coun-
try in the world hos this question been
M ore thoroughly considered than IN
England. Boards Of health. Parlia-
M entary commissions, etc., have spent
manv years of patient investigation
of this question. In 1871, nearly
all general sanitary measures were
vested in what Is called the Local
Government Board" All projects for
local drainage or sewage must be sub
mitted to this board and their sanction
had before any special tax for sewerage
can be levied A report they made to
Parliament In 1876. may be regarded as
le fficlal statement OF English expert
ence in the disposal of sewage, and,
among other things, the report says:
That the scavenging. sewering and
cleansing of towns are nece :sary for COM
fort md heath.
2-rhat the retention of refuse and ex-
creta in cesspool5 or other places in the
midst of towns must be utterly condemned,
and that none of the (so-called) dry-e8rth or
pail systems or imDrov priVies can be ap
proved other than as palliatives for cesspit
m ddens
SNTnat the sewerage of towns and the
draining of houses must be considered
prime necess ty.
AS to the sewerage main from its in
itial point at the corner Of Second East
a ID Fourth Sou h streets, 10 pom on
the Jordan River, the plans and details
of tia same ate shown in Engineer
Lowrie's report and accompanying
maps to the Council under date o.
January Goth, 1885. With TINS the
Council is familiar, but
FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION
it may be we'll to state that the portion
lying between Second East and Third
West streets is 15-inch stone pipe, and
the remaining portion it Is proposed to
build of hard-Ddrned brioz, the same to
ne twenty-four inches in diameter,
smoothly plastered on the inside with
cement. The capacity OF this main i,
estimated to be 100000 gallons for six
teen hours, the time during which
the greatest amount of sewage
flows. This is equivalent to so gallons
per capita for 30 900 people, capacity
much in excess of any demands that
will be made upon the main sewer for
many years to come.
The direction the sewage main shall
take from the point where il first strikes