The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-23
The Exterior and Interior
Block Drainage,
AND ESTIMATED COST OF EACH.
The Power Conferred Upon the City
Council by Legislative Enactment
TO Assess for the Work.
ON SEWERAGE.


much talk of the necessity of sewerage
for Salt Lake City. Many plans have
been suggested, and the subject KEPT
sufficiently before the public mind e
prepare it for decision. In quiet but
effective way, the City Council, too, ha:
debated and investigated the subject.
At its session two weeks since, the ap-
pended report was presented, read and
adopted:
Your committee on sew rage, to whom
was referred the communication of w.
II. Sells and Others, in relation to the
present City Councils policy as to max
ing public Improvements, and particu-
Iarly in regard to sewerage, respectfully
eport that we have given the subject
careful consideration. and find as fol-
lows:
On January 3lst, last, our predeces-
sors In office adopted system of sew
erage for this city, and approved plan.
specifications, and estimates therefor,
which we're drawn under the direction
Council by the firm OF LoWrie e. AuIIs.
of Denver, the sanitary engineers I'M
der whose supervision the Denver
system of sewerage was constructed.
These plans your committee have ex-
amined, and found that the immediat =,
portions OF the city provided to be
severed thereby, consists of about
thirty blocks in the central or most
thickly populated portion of the CITY.
although much larger area than this
may ultimately be connected with the
same system, without increasing the
size OF the main or intercepting sewer.
This main sewer is to be located as fol-
lows: On Fourth South Street, from
Second East to Third West, thence
north one block to Third South Street,
then west on said Third South Street
to the Jordan River, the point of dis
charge, being near what is known as the
Black Bridge. From the river to
Second West Street the main sewer is
to be built of a single shell of hard
burned bricks, smoothly plastered in
side with the best English Portland
cement, and in size to be a inches;
from that point to Second East, it is TO
be constructed of l5-inch pipe. It is
estimated the main sewer, as described,
will discharge sewage for a population
of $4,000, using fifty gallons per day
per capita u,500,0 900 gallons daily, and
will do it in sixteen hours, running one
half full, with a velocity of about %
feet per second. The cost of the main
sewer is estimated to be $25 900, and it
is proposed that the expense thereof
shall be paid out of the general funds of
the city. The territory to be severed is
a nj in n
with the main sewer by laterals con
siSting Of 8-Inch pipes in the streets,
running conveniently ne2r the property
Zines to admit connections by house
drains. which are to be uniformly six
inches in diameter, and each house to
have separate connections. The cost of
all this work, which it is proposed shall
be met by the assessment of a local tax
upon the districts benefited, is as fol-
lows:
Sewer laterGls Observation-Disclosures. 90 500
House connections ...... 13l O00
Total estimate of cost. $l6O, 500
The estimate of the cost is based upon
the assumption that the sewerage origI-
mates on an average 100 feet back from
the street, and that the possible number
of house connections to block is sixty
four.
Another method of drainage is also
shown in the plans, which is designated
the interior block drainage" whereby
a tier of blocks can Join together for q
string OF street laterals, and each block
separately take care of its own drain
age by running the same into the in
terror of the blocks. with but one con-
uection to the street. The estimate for
This method is as follows:
sewer IHIeraIs, --..'-.'.----. ..-.... 700
House connections observation-disclosures. 81, 800
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .SS7 600
Nearly 60 per cent. less than the other
or exterior, but in this estimate, moth
ing is reckoned for the right of Way
within the blocks.
Your committee further find that the
Council at the time of theadoption of the
system aforesaid, took no action as to
which of these methods. the exterior or
interior block laterals, should be
adopted, but left that matter to be de.
termined afterwards. We also find that
since the adoption of said system.
authority has been conferred upon the
OFT. Council by act of the Governor
and Legislative Assembly of the Terri
tory, entitled IAN Act providing for
the incorporation OF cities, TO assess a
local tax for sewerage and other i'm
provements as follows:
Article 15.-Local Assessments
"6RcTIoN 1.-The City Council are
authorized and empowered to divide
the city into districts for sewerage,
paving, or other like purposes, and to
provide, by ordinance, system of
doing any or all work in or upon streets, |
highways, sidewalks and other public |
places of such city, or for making there |
In street improvements and repairs, and |
for constructing sewers, drains, water
works and laying of pipes and mains |
for water and gas, and for the payment |
of the costs and expenses thereof, by |
ordinance to determine the modes and |
forms of local assessments, and levy |
and collect local taxes in proportion to