The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-26
-zELoWLAND DRAINAGE.

.actor Desvergers Complains TO
the Sanitary Association.
7-.,.etor Desvergers, in his report yester-
- 70 the public health committee of the
- sanitary Association, says, in ref
- m drainage, that while the dry cul>
5a,artment of the city has recently
- d1inC efficient work in the lowlands.
-aiIr6ad companies have been doing
u. ,Trich seriously impairS drainage on
- Aauks of the city.
~ central Railroad Company, the in
n ,1ctor says, is causing continuous flood
t--otar from the Ogeechee canal into the
1.,sTr7ve Creek canal, aud thence into the
e. sever. through a cut which that COM
80 has recently made into the first tim
. bssjn above Gays lock, and the water
me Musgrove Creek canal has been
- 70 such hight that in the event of a
90 raiu-storm the entire lowlauds of the
EDri1rfeld plantation would be sub
ta--sd. He Gays it will only require a
Z 1T examination of the trunk which has
80 placed between the Musgrove creek
80 and the ditch which leads from the
oa1sl to the Hogg sewer to convince any one
. u The stupidity of some one in connection
4 <rith the matter.
The bottom of this trunk, the inspector
.svs. is eighteen inches higher than the
6scsl of the Hogg sewer, and consequently
when the water is high in the Musgrove
-ask canal the water flows through the
.T1k into the ditch. and thence into the
poyg sewer, and, as the latter is the most
~6ortant vent for water from the Spring
IA plantation low lands, the danger Of
IA situation is palpable. Another dam
n IS the fact that the Hogg sewer
saf is seriously obstructed. The
Tsntral railroad has built banks across it
N railroad beds, and instead of putting
krck culverts under these banks OF ade-
nate size and of sufficient depth, it has put
Fooden boxes too small to be of any service
The Hogg sewer has been diverted to a
northwest course, and instead of the COM
ANY putting under the banks which they
have constructed across it: a culvert similar
10 that at the Gwinnett street crossing
|Tbich is four feet in diameter and easily
Entered into and cleared of sand and other
Instructions, it has put in a wooden box so
small as to render it impossible to clean it
but. An ordinary sized alligator could
hardly get through it in its present condi-
Eton.
The brow bitches on both sides of the
|Musgrove creek canal between the main
|line Of the Central railroad and Bay street
Extension have also been banked across by
the railroad company a distance of from
fifty to ninety feet in two places for rail-
road beds, and instead of culverts of
adequate capacity being placed under
them, pipes, one but twelve
and the other fifteen inches in diameter,
have been put in, and no tenders have been
placed above them to obviate the sand fall
ing down from the bank and forming OBJ
structions across the openings of these little
pipes The efficiency of these brow bitches
has also been impaired by sand being car
Tried down into them by water, which
rusheS down through bitches under the
caves of the rosin shed, the sheds having no
cutters.
Another interference with the city's sys-
TEN Of drainage for the Springfield planta-
4 tion low lands, is the destruction and filing
sup Of the trunk below the double trunk in
Mugr. We creek canal, and the diversion
and extension of the Hogg sewer, thereby
increasing the leJgth of the drain, and then
leaving 1t at level ngutr than that of the
old portion of the sewer.
The Inspector says that while he is no
alarmist he cannot but regard the situation
as dangerous. He says that If there is any
remedy for he interferences with the city's
drainage it should be applied without
delay.
The inspector says that the drainage of
the lowlauds on the east of the city has
been interfered with by the Savannah and
Atlantic Railroad Company, which has
built It's railroad beds across the city's
drains, and has placed nothing but small
boxes under them, ana has set these two
feet above the level of the drains