Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-14
BROOKLYN TRUNK SEWER.
Plan in Which City, Engineer Cairn
 Takes Pride.

S'A-ASAA SAey AShBAMOUk N1AEMS Takes Pride.
 The notice to contractors asking for bids for the construction of sewers and appurtenances in Washington avenue and Riverside street from the Washing ton bridge to Summit street, is practi- cally the beginning of the construction of the sewage system for the Brooklyn district. The system is planned with great care, and has cost City Engineer Cairns an amount of thought and study and labor, which seems almost incred- ible, especially when we consider that no public man in Waterbury is pushed to the extent that Mir Cairns is. Maps, diagrams and measurements are pre- pared, treating this district as if 1t were an independent city united to the DOT tion of the city in which is located the city hall, by the conflux of sewage only.
 To property owners perhaps it will prove interesting to glance at the sew age system that is contemplated for the Brooklyn dirtrict.
 Beginning at Washington bridge there will be laid 355 lineal feet of brick sewer, 45 inches in diameter on Wash lngton avenue. At Simon street the first change will commence. A brick sewer two feet by three feet will start in running south. From the corner of Simon street and Washington avenue, will run twenty-two inch brick sewer on Washington avenue to Riverside street, west of the New England rail road, and on Riverside street to Bank street. By a peculiar construction of catch basins at this corner MT Cairns has contrived to divert the sewage into the new sewer from Bank street and still not take the storm water. So that the nuisance of an outlet at the Bank street bridge will be done away with, that portion of the present system being used only to carry off storm water. A fifteen inch pipe will then be laid to Green street and thence a twelve inch pipe to Summit street. Tho larger sizes of pipe will then be carried up Green street, and into Drayer avenue, South Wilson street and on as needed.
 Going back to Simon street the two feet by three feet brick sewer will be carried south to Porter street and west to South Leonard street, then south again on South Leonard street to Third street, before any change in the size is made. Into this Charles street will sewer, as we'll as all the streets running east and west in this vicinity.
 The system provides for the growth of the city and the extension of it's lines away into the future, based on the
 knowledge of the past. One portion only of the district is not embraced in the calculation. Owing to the topogra- phy of the section, which is encircled by the Meriden 6 Waterbury railroad, from
 the top of Railroad Hill street it will
 have to be treated separately. The
 Brooklyn trunk sewer will be emptied
 into the bulk head, and the opening just
 north of Washington bridge is to be connected with the same point. A
 trunk sewer of sufficient capacity should
 then be constructed, carrying all down
 the river beyond the populated districts.
 This matter of carrying the sewage
 down the river has not been pushed by property owners who have suffered
 much from it's bad effects, but it should
 be the first thing to demand the atten-
 tion of the board of sewer commis-
 sioners, when the appropriations are | made for next year.