Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-07

The area drained IL 607 acres, extending
from Second avenue to Brady street. The
main branch of this sewer, already built,
drains the Minersville district in the Thir-
teenth ward, and the system removes dan
ger of arecurrence of the Bed Pond disaster
OF two years ago.
Although the main Four-Mile Run sewer
has not been commenced 1t will be shortly,
and work is already in progress on the
branches of it. The basin drained contains
2, 315 acres, between Fifth avenue and the
Monongahela river. including parts of the
Fourteenth and Twenty-second wards.
Another Large Sewer to Be Built.
In addition to the big basins already men,
toned the commissioners provided for the
Forty-eighth street sewer another large one.
draining territory of 1853 acres, part OF
which is already completed. In q short
gheny cemetery to Dearborn street and
thence to Pacific avenue. The Nine Mile
Run basin of 4, 361 acres. the bulk of which
includes part of Williamsburg, will be built
as soon as that borough finds it necessary to
bear her share of the expense. The KEN
nedy Run basin of SO acres and Shade
Run basin of 384 acres are both to drain to
the Allegheny Run in the vicinity of the
Brilliant Water Works. but are beyond the
populated district and will not be built for
many years.
Murphy's Run basin is in the Fourteenth
ward, contains 108 acres, and part of the
main sewer is already constructed. In the
Eighteenth ward there is the McCandless
basin f125 acres, and the main sewer as
well as many Of its branches are already
built or in course of construction. In the
Fourteenth ward Cunliff's Run is a basin of
228 acres, and the run itself has been dis
placed by q sewer to which numerous
branches are connected.
With all these big conduits that have
been completed there have been connected
numerous small sewers, draining every
populated district so we'll that the East End
is now nearly as we'll drained as the old
city. The estimates of cost of building the
big systems submitted by the commission
ers were exceeded greatly when the actual
work was done, but this appears to have
been the only error made. The city en-
gineer says there is evidence daily
that no better plan of sewer building could
have been arranged.
Probability OF More Trouble.
In connection with the big Thirty third
street sewer it transpired yesterday that
there is probability of trouble over the
assessments for building it The assess.
ments were made on an old list of property
holders and the amount assessed on each was
turned over to the City Treasurer for col
lection. In all it amounts to $3.50, 200,
but when the statements are sent to these
property holders it is expected that many
mistakes will be found The present own
ers of the property, to great extent, were
not on the list used by the viewers, and the
names of those who were on it have
for the most part sold their holdings
either as q whole or in part This has
caused large number of new owners to be
benefited by the improvement, who are moi
on the viewers list tor assessment.
AS the statements are sent out the error,
will be discovered and a vast amount oi
tr ouble will naturally follow, which may
necessitate the reassessment of the entire
work to straighten it out