The herald., 1894-08-17
THEY WILL TRY A NEW PLAN
The Sewer Committee and the
Ontfall Sewer.
The Settling Chamber Nuisance tt
Be Abated.
A Kick From Property Owaors In tho
Neighborhoed BrinEs About =
Change-Is Is Proposed to
Fiji the Chamber.

Yesterday morning Director F. E,
Brown and Secretary Thorne, of the
Agricultural Park association, foated
into the city hall on high tide OF wrath
and Indignation.
The gentlemen were on the hunt for
the sewer committee, and had just
come from their attorney, where the y
had been consulting with regard to GET
ting out an injunction to restrain the
city from further continuing the opera.
tion OF that odoriierous nuisance at the
end OF the outiall sewer, known as the
''settling chamber" Hundreds OF yards
OF sand and offensive sediment, washed
In from the internal sewers and from
the river bed. have been accumulating
in this so-called settling chambe and
while it WAS originally stated that this
highly smelling attachment of the out
fsll eewer would only have to be cleaned
out once or twice year, it is fact that
1t hes been necessary to clean it out sew
srsl times in six months, and several
hundred yards OF foul. evil-smelling
sand and sewage sediment is now lying
near the cham Der reeking with rotten.
ness, and is generally offensive to the
neigh borhood when the sea wind blows.
The officers of the Agricultural Park
association have patiently waited for
the city to do something to correct the
high-smelling evil, until patience has
ceased to be virtue, and they Visited
the city hall yesterday to bring matters
to focus.
They held a consultation with Meesrs.
Nickel and Munson OF the sewer COM
mittee. and those gentlemen stated that
they would at once make arrangements
to have the ill-smeling sediment, now
piled around the settling chamber. 70.
moved to some point outside of the city,
probably the alkali beds to the south OF
the city boundary.
THE sewer committee" said Mr..
Nickel. "has concluded to try q new ex-
pertinent with regard to the settling
chamber. We will run in clean sand
from the river and fill up the settling
chamber with it. At the present time,
it is being filed with sewage sediment.
which should properly go down to the
sea. When the chamber is full OF clean
sand this matter can be washed through
with food Of water, and there will be
no necessity for constantly cleaning out
the chamber, to the annoyance of the
residents in that neighborhood. The
gratings on the two sewer entries at
that point will be ample to catch any
heavy matter that may be dumped into
the internal sewers"
The indignation committee from the
Agricultural Park association departed,
apparently satisfied for the time being.
From all appearances it is becoming ev-
ident that there are certain features
about the outfall sewer that are not an
unqualified successr. 1t is true that the
sewer committee made a notable record
in the construction of this great drain
way to the sea, but they worked only
according to their lights. and saw that
the plans were carried out to the letter.
1t seems now that tie expense of the
settling chamber might have been obvi-
ated. 1t was confidently claimed by the
city engineer that the force OF the sew
age water in the outiall sewer would
readily wash whole brickbats from the
internal sewers to the sea at express
train speed. In view of this fact sim
pie grating at the entrance to the sewer
would have been sufficient, without the
construction OF az elaborate settling
chamber. II the outfall sewer, siphon
and all will Withstand the water
pressure claimed for it by the
city engineer, there is no diff
fculty in the way of its
becoming clogged up with sand when
daily flushed with q fair pressure OF
water. The sewer committee. while not
pretending to be eminent authorities on
engineering, are now going to use some
plain. ordinary good sense, and prsc-
tically abandon the settling chamber as