The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-30
COST OF THE DRAINAGE.
ALDERMAN FALLfGA ANTS EST
MATE ON HRRINo,s sYsrfM

MATE ON HERINo's sYsrfM
The zntire Cost Of Draining the City
from the River to Anders IN Street
and from West Boundary TO Ras
Broad and q : m al section Fast OF
East Broad s2o4.ooo. OF Which
$4,000 Is TO be Paid by the City
and S71, 900 by Lot Owners - The
Amount Of sewers Required.
Alderman FaIligaot's report to the city
council at irs last meeting on the cost OF
constructing the Herring system OF house
drainage for Savannah is now in the hands
of the committee Of the whole. The report
is as follows:
SAVANNAH. Ga, Dec 20. 1890.
10 the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of S1-
rdnflah, IN Council assembled:
GkNTLEHES-ln accordance with the resolll-
ton adopted by your body Dec. 10, herewith
TRANSMIT ths estimates of the cost of the sys.
tenn OF house drainage designed by Mr. Rudolph
heriny Tor the city OF Savannah. with such
remarks thereon as seem to me advisable at this
TINE. In order to obtain the information
wanted as promptly as possible, / instructed the
city engineer to employ Mr.. Curtis, civil engi-
neer, and to give him such clerical assistance as
ne might need. and as result am enabled to
give you compact exhibit of the information
desired. and In such shape as to commend itself
70 the thoughtful judgment Of all wise business
Table No. exhibits separately the
number of feet of s-inch, l0-inch. a-inch.
lsinch ami 1s-inch pipe and large brick
sewers. from which it appears that
street, and from west boundary TO East Broad.
ana including small section east of East
Bread and north of Liberty street. will require
Feet OF oincn, % Pas feet of 10 inch Is 200
fa.e 80 l.. n M
lo-Inch pipe, and Is, SoJ feet of brick sewer
Table NO. shows the cost of each section
complete, with necessary man-holes flush
tanks and branches on the eightinch and ten
inca pipes, two branches being estimated for
each thirty running feet, or one to each thirty
ioot lot, from which IL appears that section 1
wal cost about 80. 7S5 ST; section 2 about $40.
aex 81 sec sscnon T. about Ss9, 40 4s; section 4,
ABOUT $S9, 05l So; section 5, about Sl0,o90 CT:
section ., about S10.7e0 "a; section z about
SS6. 800 50, and section s, about S.. Ass IS.
Table No. Is designed TO more especially ex-
hioit how much of the expenditure in each sec
ton must be laid for out of the general budget.
ana how much will be assessed upon the indi-
viduai lot owners Of the section. II is only nee
essary for me 70 say here that for the entire
WORK In the eight sections, $780, 6l 10 will be
pad for by the city, and S7l,O95 IS by the indi.
vidual lot owners.
The estimated number of house connections
IA IN the eight sections. allowing two TO every
thirty feet, win be about 6,b74, have not been
able 70 obtain any proximate figures of the
number OF sewer connections now existing, but
feel quite safe In saying that they do not ex-
ceed Sooo, and are probably much less.
According 10 the estimates made by MIR. Cur.
us, the average cost for each 20 foot lot owner
In putting down the fiusaed system as de-
signed by Mr.. Herring, will be about si2. When
II ,, Is remembered that year or SO ago the lot
owner was charged Si4 for q permit alone it
VIII be seen how great difference will
exist when he is given flushed
| sewer, which the city will keep
upon the cleanliness and safety of which he
can rely without doubt, and all this for not
only less than the cost of permit, but for very
M nauca less than his avera-e cost Of cleaning
the present foul, choked and unfinished p1pes /:
and 1t would seem that lot owners should iuy-
tully welcome the change.
Inc preset average cost of sewer connec-
lion exceeds 500. often running up into hun
ureus OF dollars. and yet the work done at such
enormous expense is known to be as unsanitary
as 1t Is expensive. To put down 1000 more
mouse connections in the present way ould
cost tne lot owners alone over 100000 at least.
ana very probably exec ding $500 0OO and
al would be OF irregular grade and without
bushes. And, in addition to this, the CITY
would have to make necessary changes in ard
additions to the existing system of storm water
sewers, probably costing se50,Uo0 to $500, 600
more. SO that is clear that to provide a COM
piete system of flushed house drains for the
People OF this entire city will scarcely take one
tnird the sum requB te for the extension of the
irregular and dangerous system now in use
In reference to the outfall sewer for the house.
drainage system. such a careful Investigation
INTO the sanitary problems involved in the sew
eral localities suggested for its terminal ex-
tremity was made by Mr.. Herring that do not
think it wise to undertake to alter them in any
particular Whilst very considerable quantity
OF 10 water and sewage has bren carried into
the Bilbo canal, much Of this has been precipi.
tat5d and oxidiZed therein and never reached
the river in its original and more deleterious
state But a closed and flushed sewer emptying
fvar vP.rl1 49,
ticaliy everything that found its way into the
drains from the houses, and as consequence a
very much greater mass of Impurity would De
dlscharged into tie river than has ever been
done heretofore. l do not think that the appa-
rent saving Of $500 to $4,000 in the cost of
construction of this outfal sewer by emptying
it at the Bilbo canal outlet sh uld weigh al st
the greater sanitary benefits to be derived by
adopting the low, point of exit.
Inere is still another very serious matter
bearing upon this question whica seems thus
far TO have escaped attention. The great in
crease 10 our shipping, both abreast of and
above the city, together with the rapid develop.
ment of manufactures along shore from both
Of which npst accumulate still greater popuia-
1ien and stu further gatherings Of flth. etc.,
river, because Of the fattened territory west of
the city, warns US now not to polute too much
| . stream which must serve more and more
EXIT for tn,. as the only
river polution--a kind, character and extent
OF pollution which must always be in addition
co that watch will find its exi. by the system
now under consideration, and in further addi-
ton to such quantity OF sewage and foul
waters as will also hereaf err further be poure /
therein from new southern southeastern and
eastern connections with the lines recommended
For these reasons, whilst in some minor de-
tails 1t may become expe lent to make changes
IN the location of the laterals for house con.
nections. am not prepared to recommend any
Change IN the outfsll sewer designed by Mr.
Herring. There is another matter also bearing
on the location of this outfall drain which
should assist in determining its location on the
line designed. If this city grows largely very
large portion of that growth must extend south.
east and east; and then it will be seen that the
proposed line for the outfall sewer has been
most happily designed, not only for present
needs, but to cover future possible and probable
contingencies LOUIS A FAIIIaANT