The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-10
SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETING.

SPECIAL VILLAGE MEETING.
The special village meeting Monday
afternoon was largely attended. DR..
Daley, president, presided. The call
was read by the clerk. A discussion fol-
lowed, participated in by several gentle
men. The following motion was before
the house, being the report of the spec
ial committee of five on sewers: "That
the trustees of the village be authorized
and directed to close contract for the
construction of system of sewers &C
cording to the McClintock plan, with the
lowest responsible bidder recommended
by the committee, and that the trustees
be authorized and directed to close con-
tracts for the purchase of pipe and ma
terial for said sewer system with the par
ties recommended by the committee"
After discussion, this was adopted, the
vote standing "a for to so against it. The
meeting then proceeded to adopt ways
and means: "VOted, That the trustees
be authorized to borrow from time to
time, such sums as may be necessary to
carry on the work of putting in a sewer
age system in the village of Bennington,
but not exceeding the sum of $4,000
in the aggregate"
These resolutions are in accordance
with the amendment to the village char
ter, of which we gave a summary last
week III effect the village voted to put
in system of sewers, according to the
plans ard specifications published IN
pamphlet form last fall, modified in
some particulars to conform to better
knowledge. This is summarized to be
virtually the W. 4. McClintock plans as
stated
The section to be severed covers near
ly the entire village, and calls for about
eight miles of pipes, in exact measure
736-100 miles. The place of discharge
is the Walloomsac river, about quarter
mile below the mills of Holden, Leonard
d Co. All the estimates of the system
are based on a population of 80 persons
to each acre. The total number of acres
discharging through the main outlet at
Mill and County streets is 335, which al
lows for population of 10000 within
the village district between County and
Weeks, the railroad and Branch street.
the discharge for this number of persons
amounts to 100000 gallons day. or
little more than three cubic feet sec
ond, and on the grade of proposed lines
will require fifteen inch pipe. The
plans call for eight inch pipes on all
sewers having grade of less than one
foot to the hundred, and flush man
hole at all dead ends, where the grade is
less than two feet to the hundred. The
estimated cost of the undertaking is
about $4,000. Operations will be COM
menced as soon as the frost shall be out
of the ground. The abutting property
on each side of the sewer will be assess
ed one-third the cost andlthe village will
pay the other third. In this connection
it has been suggested that inasmuch as
the village is to incur the WHOLE expense
at the outset, that if the bonds do not
begin to mature until five years after is
sue, it will virtually give lot owners that
time in which to pay the assessments.
This would relieve the burden of imme-
diate assessments for the whole of each
one-third. At the end of the five years,
the money accruing from the payments
of abutting property owners would be
sufficient to pay the maturing bonds for
number of years. In this
manner we can get sewers and neither
those liable to assessments nor the gen.
eral public be burdened with any appre-
ciable taxation. The extra expense will
really amount to tax on the grand list
for the payment of four per cent. inter-
est-an inconsiderable sum. This sag
gestion, which we give for the consider
alton of our readers, in effect removes
the payment of the one-third the village
is ultimately liable for, to period so
remote that no one will care. This con-
sideration is thrown out also to show
that it is not to become an immediate
burden of taxation to put in the needed
sewerage.