Smyrna times., 1894-07-18
Our Town cOunciI--Wbat They Are
Doing.

The Secretary made ms report ABOUT mo-
tifying the parties acted upon at last meet,
ing. He said the order of the Board had
been complied with
The public fountain was then brought up
and discussed at length. W. A Farles
moved that the w. G. T. U. fountain be
allowed to run; that it was benefit TO the
town and great convenience to those VINO
have been in the habit of watering their
horses there. He thought that it being
nublic benefit. it should be allowed to run.
j. G. Robinson took an opposing stand to |
Mr.. FAIRIES motion. He thought that it |
was not a public benefit to the town so long |
as the water was allowed run and collect |
in the lower cutters of Commerce street, |
stagnate and throw out offensive OdOrs. |
He spoke of the complaint that was COM
ing from that section and concluded his
remarks that under the present condition
of those cutters no inducement could pre-
vail upon him to live in that part OF the
town.
VIM. NJ. Lewis, could not see how water
could collect and stagnate in the cutters II
a continuous stream was flowing from the
w. G. T. U. fountain. He thought If the
cutters were properly leveled and bricked,
this would avoid all difficulty. The ques-
ton, after being further discussed, was put
and lost-the w. G. 7. U. fountain was cut
off
VIM. Lewis moved that the property
holders, from Dailey's carpet store to Mon
rovia avenue, be required to fix their gut
ters, and that the Street Committee nix the
culVerts to the proper grade. Carried.
All this discussion about street grading
and cutters only opened way for that
important sewerage question, which was
acted upon later in the evening.
VIM. Lewis moved that the Board hire
an extra policeman to assist Policeman
Grant on Saturday nights for period of
| 60 days Carried.
John Cosgritf spoke in behalf of Engineer
! Redman, who is desirOus for a few days
vacation VIM. NJ. Lewis moved that the
matter be referred to Supt. Anthony, who
had such questions under his charge.
j. c. Robinson, thinking that the time
was very OppOrtune, arose and stated that
| it was the pleasure of the Board to have
with them this evening, Mr.. u. 4. Gaskell,
| of Mt. Holly, N. j., and inasmuch as he
| had a report to submit on systematic
plan for sewerage, he would make it a mo-
ton that Mr. Gaskell be allowed to read
| same.
BY permission Mr. Gaskell arose and
read as follows:
To the HonorabLe Board of Commissioners
Of the Ioton of Smyrna, Del.
GENTLEMEN AT the request of your
committee on Sewerage. appointed by
your honorable body, to examine your
town map and data furnished by a partial
survey made by Mr.. w. 0. Hoffecker, and
report to your honorable body the prac
{ ticability of system of sewerage, and tC
recommend a system of sewerage suitable
to your town with the probable cost of suct
system | have carefully examined al
the data furnished me, and have gone Ove
the ground and obtained as much infOrma
ton as possible of the nature of the grOunC
where excavations would be made, anC
f,ll
report
find by some calculations from the dati
furnished me, that the topography of tn
land will permit sewerage system to b
+ constructed without any very serious OBJ
2 structiOn, or very deep excavations, ant
8 unless qucksand exists at the bottom Q
the excavations, there is nothing to encOun
. ter to create heavy outlay of money t
- construct a complete sewerage system fo
. the parts of the town now supplied wit
i water from your water plant.
d have heard in your town some talk {
admitting surface water from your stree
! cutters, including all rain water from a
. parts of the town, in reply to which
;; would beg leave to say, that this would b
y very impracticable for a town like you
for the following reasons
It First. The heavy expense of such a sy
v tenn would Immediately put an end to a
Il prospects Of sewerage system for I'll
:, town.
y Second. Your streets not being pave,
so much sand and other solid matter fro
D, your streets would be carried into the seV
d ers, that it would only be a matter of
b short time when some of them would
clogged and would cause constant e
n pense to keep them in working order
- Third. The sewers would be of SUI
large sizes, to accommodate surface wat
at times of heavy rains, and the smS
amount of sewage to be carried off at 9th
times, that they would become very fol
as they would never be properly flush
te except at times of heavy rains, and wOu
a. become hOtbeds of sewer gas in times
- long drouths.
ne These, with other reasons which l W
ln not discuss, would make such syste
lis very undesirable for your town. l wOu
ed recommend the Waring system of SIN
r's pipes properly flushed at intervals of I
" more than twelve hours, by means of 8
- tomato Flush Tanks located at the upI
u ends of all lateral sewers, these later
1r- emptying into the main sewers, thence
r. the outlets. These Flush Tanks are CO
ng str9cted at the heads of lines in the grOur
w. of brick, and of capacity of about
IA gallons, to which small feed pipe is
D.s tached from yeur water mains, and allow
,S ~1 to fill through very small opening or
Z! % cock; then when the tank water rises Ia
ISIS certain point the syphOn is autOmatica
In started, ard the $50 gallons of water v
ess be discharged into the sewer in about {
/ a minute.
do These syphons require no attention
orc cept to see that sediment does not stop
o supply of water, which would be prOba
IuS once each month,
ed. In my observations and from calcJ
on tiQns / find that there would be eight
in these tanks needed to properly distrib
| Il Al, 4
hss full calculation that six, eight and ten-i
,'-a pipes will be of ample capacity to carry
aEo ali the sewage from the town until
SIe point is reached where you propose TO
nit rain water on the way to the Ou
from Commerce street. | find that
II most of the town lying south of CONNIE
-, street will have to be carried to an Ou
ms from main sewer on Main street to
lrs- charge below the mill.
~ find by distances given on your t.
,art map including the following streets, N
,Wn street from North street to Mill race, &
,ov merce street from outlet to water toy
80 South street from Pearl to Main, Delav
"nH ~. street from Mt. Vernon to South, Ma
AMI street, Mt. Vernon from Union to NJ
MS the total length of sewers will be in rO
ing numbers about 1900 feet of pipe,
Dme feet of which would require "a inch p
rec. leaving 13,G00 feet of siX, eight and
!, in inch pipes, the total costs Of which will
- as follows!
'aIn 1860 feet of and 10 pipes laid COM
ntil plete, a S6S
rom 400 feet of "a pipes laid complete, a Soc 2l
Eight Flush Tanks, cOmplete..................
day s9i
The above calculations are made
liberal and will, without doubt, cover
expenses if managed to the best advan
ton, for the town.
died Respectfully submitted,
ure Gro 4. GAsKILI, g.
hter On motion the report of Mr.. Gaskill
ion accepted and filed.
e.. j. G. Robinson, in order to put the q
gey tbn Ion n@ry V1 ON Sewerage take DIT
day' steps to sewer the town and that the L
dent of the Board, John IL. Hoteckel
authorized to negotiate sufficient b
1 us for meeting the required expense
mas, opened a lively debate VIM. A. +
near and John II. Hoffecker taking the 8
lred that It was inexpedient at the present
1itoi although they had previously voted i
~1-e' ~ vOr of it,
gone The question, however, was eaG
'hlch called for, so the President put the que
nph- and the motion was carried on yea
De- nay vote, to 2.
teen Yeas-J. G. Robinson, VIM. F,
al at VIM. NJ Lewis, Ii. ID. Boyer, John
ndeJ grif
nuSu Nays-W. A. Faries John H. HOffe
sue VIM FAIRIES moved in the form OF
) the olution, that DR.. McCauslaRd and
Is, of Price be appointed members of the L
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