Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-30

| Boston specification OF 5000 pounds crush
| Ing strength and less than 10 per cent.
| absorption OF water should be required.
| With present prices OF cement on Puget
sound, Portland should be specified. See
Boston specifications for mortar. The
masonry at the outlet should be lime
| stone. Our sandstone cuts too easily
where high tide reaches 1t. The outflow
pipe should be two feet In diameter in
stead OF eighteen Inches AS proposed, and
| extend along the bed OF the
beach to point at least three
feet below low water. Then the pipe
should turn upward, reaching TO low
water mark. This outlet will need twelve
piles driven, cut of and capped around IL
as protection from vessels. All this
| work OF building the sewer complete from
Larrabee and Eighth to outflow should
be Included In one contract. Advertise
| ment had better be made in Seattle. Ia
coma and Portland TO contractors as well
as at home, and contractors should be re-
qulred To show what experience they have
| had on similar work. Work should bcpIr
| within one week from award OF contract
| and be prosecuted continuously TO the
satisfaction OF the city engineer 30 com
| pletion, which should be by February !,
| ISD. ! see no reason for removing Nc
kenZle avenue planking, but would build
sewer at the side Of street as close TO pay
Ing as practicable. This sewer being six
feet high should have manholcs once In
every 800 feet only. Branches for house con-
nections should be built In at the spring
| ing line Of the arch every twenty five
| feet on each side. The grade Of the street
having been raised the egg shape may
now be maintained on whole length Of
sewer
Regarding pipe sewers IL seems best 10
use best Yitriied pipe at least until we
know more about cement pipe. / am
| ffu ~ ltaT TlfsfF NtEsN IE.T a..
| pipe. but apparently It's strength Is less
than that OF the vitriiied, and IL Is only at
| Worcester that 1t has unqualified ap-
prOyal Helena, Montana. laid It's entire
| system, three years ago, with home made
cement pipe, and am endcavOring TO get
some Information about the results.
| such pipe sewers as are pctltioned for
or as the board Of health deem necessary.
should be contracted for as soon as possi-
| BILE now that the temporary iron pipe TO
| deep water gives safe disposal Of our
sewage. have heard that the auto.
matte flushing tanks have been discarded
by one or two cities, and ! am now now
corresponding regarding this. IL seems
! best 10 use them as planned unless these
In use are giving trouble, which was not
| the case In May, when left Farhavcu.
| In our soil u Is not necessary 10 bed pipe
| In concrete, as Is done AT Washington, II
| the specifications about forming ground
| Huh'l plpt anu tdItlul ldHbluH OF tdEll
along sides and top are enforced. ! am
satisfied that our grades as first laid ar,
not deep enough, and that an averag,
depth Of nine 10 ten feet should be secured
When alleys exist the pipe will generally
give better service there than In the
| street
From what / have learned / am con
vinccd that Mr.. Williams skeleton plan.
filled In and modified as changed c0ndi-
! tlOns, since hc made IL, warrant. will give
! Fairhaycn a system much better than
most cities possess, and that will bear
comparison with any In the East.
j. j. DONOvAN,
| Mem. Am. Soc. G. r., Chairman Sew
| erage Committee, Fairhaycn Wash
! Plymouth, n. H., July II, 1891.
Call on J. $. Emerson, Twelfth street
| opp. Mason block, for full particulars Of
excursion 10 Mission City August /. Spec
| ial rate Of al 80 for round ttlu