The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-07-29
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BACONS QUARTER BRANCH.
Col ". y. Crtshaiv Gives Its idca ibou
Kenedying the Evil.

Reinedying the Evil.
Col. W. +. Cutshaw was asked yesterday
what was the best evpedion, 70 be used in
,e-afd to the Bacon's Quarter branch nu-
sancc. lie said: The matter Of making
| perpendicular banks for BaCOus Quarter
! branch and NhOckOe creek has been agitated
| for the past fifteen years. Every new presi-
| dent Of the Board of Health urges t. the
| Council the necessity OF doing something in
| the matter, but the Council has not done
very much as yet. They appropriated
money 10 make banks fr -hOchOe creek
from RroaI 10 franklin, but that
is all that has been expended.
| These banks were absolute necessities. as
the stencil arising from the WAFER made it
very disa0r'pe6ir 10 persons living in the
yi-'Nitr of the creek. about fifteen years
ago it was urged in the Council TO apprOyri-
ate a certain sum each year towards the
building of banks and the pa,lne Of the
streams bottom, Int the matter was drop
ped and with the exception refer 10, moth
/ ing has been done. That il should be
done cfery one will admit that Knows
anything about the service done by the
branch and creek. 1t is nothing more than
"a tremendous sewer. Starting out in the
county. the branch flows back of the Fair
grounds and passes Brook avenue 10 the
Locomotive Works. After it passes that
latter point il becomes ShOckOe creek. and
flows through the valley until what might
be sixteenth street is reached. Il then has
"a straight shoot to the river.
1t is the largest sewer we have. and is, as
the city goes. becoming more impOrtant. At
Brook avenue a large sewer empties into
The c'peH. and that sewer being the drain
from about "a square half mile Of the CITY.
At Eighteenth and Franklin another large
sewer emptics into the creek, and at Main,
Franklin and Cary streets sewers can also
De found. NOu can readily see by this that
the creek or branch does a great deal Of
good, and saves the city a great deal Of
money.
The PEOPLE about Brook avenue complain
because at that point the stream sometime
has not the force 10 wash all OF the sewer
age down. After good rains the water is
more than sufficient, it being sometimes
over two feet deep. This branch, however,
has a way Of spreading especially before it
reaches the locomotive Works. sometimes
10 is "a quarter Of a square wiie and ncces-
sarily very shallow. As a consequence the
carrying away Ui the sewerage is done very
impcrlcctly.
The same remedy as was proposed some
fifteen years ago would do-build perpen-
dicular banks and pave the bottom of the
stream. BY this act. the water would then
De kept in regular channel, and there
would be no liability of stencil. The city
is large enough now to Just begin such a
move for II j. necessary one, and if not
done will both be a sanitary evil and a
means Of decreasing property near where it
runs.
Nothing, however, can bc done until the
Committee on Shockoe Creek makes its re-
port 10 the Council this fall. This report
will be- yOlnminOus one, and will recon-
mend measures 10 build these walls.
have no doubt, TOO, that the Council will
take some action in the matter, as IL has
been neglected too long already"