Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-21
STREETS AND SEWERS.
THE REPORT MADE BY THE BOARD
OF PUBLIC WORKS.
The City to Be Asked to Repair Streets
Where Sewers Have Been Built-The
Sewers and the RAMA Fathsrless
Storm Dram.

sewers ana the Hain-A fatheriess
Storm Dram.
The board OF public works held their
regular weekly meeting at the city hall
yesterday morning, and formulated the
following report to the council:
Recommend that the petition OF G. A..
Nolte, asking to be allowed to retain
two posts in the sidewalk in front of No.
923 First street, be granted.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to lay wooden
.crosswalks at the following points: On
the south side of Twelfth street, be-
tween Main and San Pedro streets; at
the south side OF Tenth street, across
Pearl street. at the south side OF Olive
street, across Tenth street; at the south
side of Ninth street, across Broadway;
at the east side of Broadway, across
Ninth street; at the north side of Ninth
street, across Beech street, at the south.
side OF Eighth street, across Beech
street; at the south side OF Eighteenth
street, across Main street; at the south
side OF Eighteenth street, across Hill
street; at the south side OF Eighteenth
street, across Grand avenue; at the east
side of Tenth street, across Flower
street; at the south side of Flower
street, across Tenth street; at the west
side OF San Pedro street, across Eighth
street; at the east side OF Hill street,
across Pico street at the east side Of
Hill street, across Twelfth street; at the
east side of Hill street, across Seven
teenth street.
Recommend that the disposition of
surface water at Ninth street and Myrtle
avenue be referred to the city engineer
and street superintendent.
Recommend that the following por-
tions of streets be graded: Figueroa
street, from Pico to Jefferson, and Pearl
from Pico to Sixth street; Georgia street,
from Second street to point two blocks
east.
Recommend that the city clerk be in
structed to readvertise for bids for the
paving with porphyry of Ord formerly
Walters) street, from Upper Main to
New High street, and Sanchez street
from Plaza street to Arcadia street.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to place immedi-
ately box culvert across Bellevue ave-
nue. at the intersection of Beaudry ave-
nue., to carry off the surplus surface
water, and that he do this in accordance
with the plans of the city engineer.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent be instructed to round off the
corners of the following sidewalks East
erly from corner of East Edgeware road
and Bellevue avenue; corners OF Iowa
and Figueroa streets; corners of Temple
and Figueroa streets.
In the matter of the petition OF T..
Edgar Galbreth ct al, asking that the
damage done by the rains to Temple
street west OF Pearl be repaired. action
was deferred till after the end of the
rainy season.
Action was deferred for one week in
the matter of the protest OF Albert M.
Stephens ct al. against paving Requena
street from Los Angeles street to Ala
media street.
Recommend that the prayer OF the pc
tition for the grading and graveling of
Sixth street by private contract be
denied.
Recommend tnat the petition OF A. I.
Byrne, civil engineer of Jamaica, N. Y,
relative to statistics of streets, be re-
ferred to the city engineer for report.
Recommend that action on the
mayors veto message concerning the
contract to grade Second street, be defer
red one week, and the contractors check
returned to him.
Request information as to by what
authority a storm drain is being con-
structed on Alameda street to the south
ward Of First street.
Recommend that the street superin-
tendent repair all streets wherein sewers
have been laid and accepted, and the
ground has sunk below the surface.
AN EXPENSIVE JOB.
In carrying out this last recommenda-
ton the city may be put to considerable
expense. The central interceptor sewer
on Grand avenue has been accepted by
the city from Washington street to JET
fereon, and all filling in ON this section
must be done by the city. At the cor
ner OF Jefferson street, and several hum
dred feet north, there is quite hole to
be filled, and many loads OF dirt will be
required.
It has been ascertained that there was
no caving OF the sewer at the corner of
Grand avenue and Jefferson street. The
present system terminates at this point,
and the end of the sewer had been
bricked up. This "blind end" was
forced out by the water which entered
the tunnel from above, and the street at
that point was washed away. For sew
eral hundred feet northward, however,
the sewer is filled with mud and silt, and
will have to be cleaned out at some ex-
pense.
THE SEWERS AND THE RAIN.
The uncompleted portion OF the sewer
on Washington street stood the storm
we'll. Several small leaks were discov-
cred between Grand avenue and Main
street yesterday by City Engineer Dock
weller and HERALD reporter, who
crawled through long section of the
sewer, but these are claimed by the con-
tractor to be customary in such struc-
lures. A quantity of mud has been de.
posted in this section OF the sewer also,
and will. have to be either flushed or
-scraped out.
Below Main street, where the "invert''
was exposed to the storm, no damage
has been done, and brick-laying will re-
commence Monday unless further rains
interfere.
A FATHERLEss STORM DRAIN.
One of the sections of the report OF