Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-12
SEWERS AND CANALS.
Subjects Considered by the Improvement
AssociatiOn.


Association.
The regular monthly meeting of the City
and County Improvement Association was
held last evening at Secretary Bakers office,
President Luhrs in the chair.
DR.. Parkinson, from the Sewerage and
Drainage Committee, submitted a report
on the Seventeenth-st canal, as follows
Your committee has again carefully examined
the Seventeenth and Thirty first. street canals
and finds that the conditions obtaining at the
time OF Its former report are still the same.
These canals, or bitches, were originally con-
structed for the purposes of surface drainage,
the Thirty -hrst-street canal taking the water of
Burns Slough, which used to traverse the south
eastern portion OF the city along the face of the
old cross eVee, and the seven eenth. street canal
acting as the outlet of brick sewer on the same
street, running from to K, with 3 terminal ca
pacity of Al inches
These canals, while unattraetive in appear
ance, would be inodorous and practically harm
less from sanitary point of view, when carry
ing surface water only, and for many months of
the year they would be perfectly dry. The nui-
sances at present existing are caused solely by
the DISCHARGE into these bitches or their al
huents OF waste water from certain manufactur-
ing establishments. IN proof of this, it is only
necessary to examine the Thirty. frSt-street
canal between K and L. and again between NJ
and N, below the point lat NJ street, where an
Sinch pipe discharges into the canal.
In the absence of sewerage facilities in the
eastern portion of The city, the establishments
already referred 10 must continue to maintain
the existing nulsances or cease operations,
either of which alternative is undesirable. The
establishment and maintenance of manufacture
ing industries in this city is of the highest i'm
portance, and every facility should be afforded
capital invested or DESTROYS Of investing.
Your committee therefore recommends
l. That the brewery at 1wenty-eighth and N
streets be connected with the pipe sewer at
Twentieth and o streets.
2. That the pipe sewer now on the line of R
street. east of Seventeenth street. be raised and
graded, SO as to carry 1t over the seventeenth
street sewer, and continued westward along r
street, so as TO join the existing sewer at Thir-
teenth and r.
8. That this work be carried out at the earliest
possible opportunity, and that steps be subse-
quently taken to clean out and regrade both the
Ihirty-first street and Observation-Disclosures canals.
Your committee is aware that this is more or
less a temporary measure, and not permanent
improvement. 1t is, however, the readiest and
most economic manner of abRting an unsightly
and most offensive nuisance, and, coupled with
the arrest of the other discharges into these
canals, will certainly remedy the present condi-
ton OF affairs. permanent system of sewer
age is not likely TO be adopted, or in operation,
in the immediate future. Meanwhile ample
facilities have been provided, aud which can
ultimately be used with advantage in the sur
face drainage of the neighborhood in which
they have been placed.
DR.. Parkinson and Senator Dray made
some remarks in further explanation of the
condition of the canal and It's possible rem
edies. They thought that slaughter houses
and breweries should not be allowed to
drain into open sewers. Mr.. Dray said the
canal is not a sewer, and was not intended
to convey sewage, but surplus surface water.
The report of the Superintendent of the
permanent exposition building for October
showed that during the month 934 persons
visited the building.
After transacting some routine business,
the committee adjourned.