Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-11-10
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and prepared into compost, and then
sold to farmers.
SOUTH SIDE IRRIGATION COMPANY.
It is the opinion of this commission,
from the testimony produced before us,
that the use Of raw sewage by the South
Side Irrigation Company, upon lands
owned and controlled by it, is obnoxious
to persons owning land and residing
thereon in the vicinity where such sew
age is used; that the smells arising
| therefrom are q nuisance, while it is
serious question whether the use of such
&c age, owing to the manner in which it
is handled, is not detrimental to the
| health of persons living in the vicinity
of such use. We therefore recommend
that the city terminate its contract with
said company at the earliest possible
moment, either by the acceptance of the
offer by said company TO sell its rights to
the use of said sewage, together with its
properties constructed for handling it,
or by condemnation proceedings through
the courts. By this means said sewage
can be wholly controlled by the city, and
after treatment at it's publication works,
| all ground of complaint by parties
now living in the vicinity of the places
where said sewage is now used would be
removed.
The cost of acquiring said property,
and the cancellation of said contract with
said company, we are informed by Mr..
Martz, the President Of said company,
would be $23, 900. Whatever the ex-
pense may be. We believe it to be the
best economy for the city to incur the
expenditure, and the amount we herein
suggest as probably sufficient to cover
the cost of the publication works would
include tho outlay In terminating said
contract and in acquiring said properties
of said company.
RIGHT OF WAY TO THE OCEAN.
While this commission is of the
opinion ali the sewage water can be sue
csssfully purif ed, and thereafter can be
disposed of to irrigators during the irri-
eating season, and thlt at other seasons
the waters not required for irrigation may
be conducted to the Los Angeles or San
Gabriel rivers, or be connected with any
former channel of said rivers, and seek
their escape in such channels without in.
jury to owners of adjoining property, or
without becoming a nuisance, yet we
recognize the fact that some citizens be-
lieve that an outfall sewer to the ocean
may become q necessity at some time
in the future, and that right of way for
that purpose ought to be secured at this
time; therefore, in Difference to this
opinion, we recommend that right of
way, fifty feet wide extending from the
city to the ocean, be acquired either by
purchase or condemnation, to be used
for the construction of an outfall sewer
to the ocean, should the same ever be-
come a necessity, but we advise that no
such outfall sewer be constructed there
at the present time, or at all, until all
other methods of disposing of the puri-
fed sewage water shall, after full and
fair experiment and trial, prove imprac-
ticable.
COST OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.
AS to the probable necessary cost of
the interior system of sewers, storm
dr,.ins, etc re are of the opinion that the
following amounts would, if properly ex-
pended DO more than sufficient for the
purposes hereinafter set forth, viz:
Storm drains $4,000
Main and intcrcepting sewers :. $50. 100000
Grounds for treating sewage and
erection OF works and conduits to and
from sewer. -..'....'...-.........-.. 1OO,Ooo
$475, 900
The foregoing amounts are in excess of
the estimates made by the engineering
experts who are members of the commit
tee, and such estimates were made on
the theory that sewers should not be
made larger than the public service will
actually require; and III this connection
your committee would suggest that, while
there may be an honest difference OF
opinion as to the relative value from a
sanitary point of view of large as COM
pared with small sewers, inasmuch as it
will doubtless seem desirable that storm
drains shall be wholly separate from the
sewer syotem, the necessity OF con-
structing sewers Of larger size
than actually demanded for conduct
ing sewage will no longer exist, and we
cannot urge too strongly the importance
Of adopting system of sewers, storm
drains, etc., that will insure the best
service at the least possible expense, and
il is the opinion of the commission that
q system something like that now in use
in Memphis, Tennessee, would answer
all purposes and fulfill the conditions
named.
We have no suggestions to offer as to
the means of raising the funds neces-
sary to carry out any plan that your hon
orable body may see fit to adopt, as to do
SO would involve the instigation Of i'm
portant legal questions which it is not
the province of this commission to pur.
sue.
HOW QUESTION SUBMITTED FOR VOTE.
In view of the fact that there has been
and now ia difference of opinion on the
part of many citizens as to the extent of
the sewage system to be adopted by the
city at the present time, and as to the
advisability of constructing the whole
system, as the same is suggested by this
body, or as the City Council may deter
mine, we recommend that in submitting
the question to the vote OF the people, it
be submitted 30 that the voters may vote
upon each question separately, provided
the matter as recommended can be
legally adopted.
Mr.. E. M. Hamilton submitted 9
minority report as follows: That report of
Committee on Interior System be
adopted; that 30 much of the report of
the Committee on Outfall as relates to
procuring right Of way to the ocean be
adopted: that the report of the Commit
tee on Storm Drains be amended to read
$l00, 900 instead of $50 1000; that all the
report of the Committee on Utilization
be stricken out. We offer the following
substitute: That the sewage be conveyed
to the ocean, except what may be needed
for irrigation and fertilization now under