Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-13
AN IMPORTANT WORK.

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 The Big Boulevard Sever-Arrange ments For the Building of the Fourth | Secti0n-spiling For the Foundation An Important Adjunct as Regards the Health of the Southwestern Par, of the City.
 Captain Lawrence O'Brien who was recent
 ly awarded the contract for the fourth section l of the big boulevard sewer from Lambertor I street to Davenport avenue, is now making ! extensive preparations for the pushing of the
 work. He will get about $39, ,00O for the joh when completed. Preparatory to building
 the sewer much spiling has to be accom- plished, as this section-like the second crosses meadows. The driving of spilss is now being done. This is a separate contract from the sewer building contract. The large and thickly settled part of the city lying be- tween Howard avenue and Davenport avenue has practically been destitute of sewerage &C., commodatioHs When the new section of the big sewer to Davenport avenue is done new street sewers will be asked for and built as fast as it is practicable to do so. Hitherto this large section of the city, having been
 mainly destitute of sewerage accommodations, has had to depend upon cesspools as a place of deposit for sewage matter, and the yards of many houses destitute of cesspools have often demanded the attention of the health inspec- tors. Besides, people we'll informed on the subject say that many cases of malaria have occurred in this section of the oity, most of which were traceable to the lack of sewerage in that part of the town. With the new big trunk sewer in operation and the connecting hTVII hf hfv,rr, authorities say, this section from emerging from it's present condition into thefront rank samong the healthiest sections of New Haven. The city's work of giving jacket of earth to the second section of the boulevard sewer that which crosses the meadows between Kimberly avenue and City Point-is about completed. Many thousand loads of earth were required, and were obtained from City Point and from land just west of Kim berly avenue. The big sewer badly needed this Jacket of earth to keep it warm and pre- vent inroads upon it from Jack Frost. The big boulevard sewer will empty into the harbor off City Point. The harbor end of it-or the first section-was first built. This section commences out in the harbor about two hundred feet from shore, and ex- tends across City Point to the edge of the meadows-the second section extending across the meadows to Kimberly avenue. The sewer will empty into water four feet deep.
 A big bulwark of strong timbers, backed by earth filling, protects the harbor end of the sewer from the attacks of the big waves which roll in when heavy storms prevail ,and protects the roadway on shore from similar attacks. The bulwark is a very substantial piece of work. Then, too, the portion of the sewer which juts out into the water is pro- tected by jacket of asphalt which encases it and protects it from Jack Frost The city tOn r,o1ch fOr+ Ina &a or leave it exposed to the danger of being spoiled by winds or arctic weather.
 For several hundred feet at City Point the sewer is twenty feet below the surface of the street, also portion of the third section between mberly avenue and Lamberton street-is about twenty feet below the sur face and passes under the tracks of the New York and New Haven division of the Con aolidated railroad. The big sewer is costing good deal of money, but when it is done it will, according to the best authorities, prove 8 great benefit to the southwestern part of New Haven.
 Owing to the cold weather C. w. Blakes- ee & Sons have been obliged te suspend work until spring on their $14,000 pay ing contracs in Friendship street, Providence, R. I. They have furnished the section of the big boulevard sewer be- tween Kimberly avenue and Lamberton streets 8 $4s, ,000 contract. They are to build the aoutment for the bridge over the Shore Line railroad at James street. This street is now being extended. It will pass under the Shore Line road the same as it does under the Hartford railroad about one thousand feet to the northward of the Shore Line The work of building the iron bridge over the Hartford and Air Line railroad tracks al Cedar Hill about eight hundred feet north of James street is progressing finely. The abutnents are we'll advanced toward compile ton. The work is being done by Red6eld & Son. This is for the long talked of extension of Jackson street to State street, work that at last bids fair to be accomplished by next spring