St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-11
TO MAKE 1T A METROPOLIS
Aberdeen Must Have Sewerage, Like
All the Other Great
Cities.
But It Has Some Difficulties to Over
come, Being on a Level
Plain.
An Account of the Structure and the
Engineering Features
Proposed.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
ABERDEEN, Aug. 1O.-Aberdeen's
system of sewers is at length under
way. The artesian we'll which is to
furnish power for the pumping works is
being rapidly sunk, depth of 125 feet
having been already reached. The eX-
cavation for the filth chamber is deep
enlng under the picks and spades of
score or more of laborers. Its dimen-
sions will be forty-three feet in length,
twenty-siX feet deep, and when COM
pleted will be cylindrical chamber of
brick, ten feet in diameter, into which
the main sewer leads and from whence
the outlet extends to Moccasin creek,
east of the city. The main sewer,
which will be of brick, with
an egg-shaped section, 36x24 inches,
Will extend down First street to
Nicollet avenue, where an eight-inch
street enters. A trunk sewer of eight
een-inch vitrified clay pipe extends
along NicoIlet to Main, bringing in the
sewage from Main street.
THE MAIN STREET SEWER
is of vitrified pipe, eighteen inches in
diameter, with house connections in
front of each twenty-five feet of lot
frontage. The sewers will extend from
Chicago avenue, the street parallel with
the Milwaukee railway, south to Nicol-
let avenue, entering the brick sewer as
described. The great difficulty to be
| overcome was in securing a sufficient
fall, as the business portion of, Aber-
deem, like that of many of the leading
cities of the country, is located
UPON A DEAD LEVEL.
Benezette Williams, a Chicago en-
gineer, who planned the sewers at
Pullman, ILL.,. who has the matter in
charge, has devised plans which, it is
thought, will solve the Aberdeen sew
age problem, which has given the sister
cities such grave concern. In getting
the sewage to the pumping works the
| following plan Is employed: From
Chicago avenue to Nlcoilet the sewers
| are made fall to NicOllet from two to
three feet, the eight-inch sewer being
provided with a flush tank located at
| the head of the sewer. The inclination
required is secured by deepening the
trenches as they approach Nicollet ave-
| nue., their outlets being raised Suffi-
ciently above the main sewer to secure
| a ready flow to the pumping works.
| Here the sewage, after passing through
a screen basket provided to catch rub
bish which would clog the pumps,
passes 1nGO the HUI c0amDer
described and is forced by two duplex
hydraulic pumps into the Moccasin run,
a distance of 5000 feet from the works.
The pumps which are located in pump
house above and adjoining the chamber,
each have capacity
OF $50, 600 GALLONS,
or total capacity of 100000 per day.
The pumps which are estimated to cost
$1,000 each will be driven by power
from the new artesian and are thought
to have capacity sufficient to dispose
of the sewage of the city when the sys-
tenn is extended to the various streets
and upon the North side, as contemplate
ed. Catchbasins will be located at sew
| eral points in the city to dispose of such
surface water as withstands the action
of Dakota's atmospheric sponge. This
| partial system, which will be fully uti-
liZed when the extensions contemplated
| are made, will cost the city something
OVER $4,000 DOLLARS.
With its completion the only obstacle
to the growth of Aberdeen is removed.
| The unmerited reputation of Aber-
deem for unhealthfulness, the fever
scare so lndustriouSly circulated by
would-be rival cities, will be put at rest,
for appearances as well as fact will
bear out the low mortality records of
| the city. Aberdeen is to be congrat-
ulated and possibly her example may
stimulate other towns to similar un-
dertaking,