The record-union., 1894-02-15
IN DEAD EARNEST.
The Board of Trustees Considers the
Sewerage Question.
City Surveyor Mullenney Explains His
Prof1les, and Lawton's Reso-
luton Is Passed.

luton Is Passed.
The City Board of Trustees held meet
ing last night to consider the plan for
the report of the committee last Monday
night.
Trustee Pennish, for the Sewerage
Committee, said that the committee had
nothing further to report, but expected
that the City Engineer would explain to
the board the plan of sewerage which he
had drawn for their use.
City Surveyor Mullenney produced the
profles, which showed the plan of the
proposed main sewer, as we'll as that of
the old main now existing,
The proposed new brick circular sewer
is six feet in diameter from Front to Fifth
street. five and a nalf feet from Fifth to
Seventh, five feet from Seventh to Ninth,
four and half feet from Ninth to Thir
teenth, and four feet from Thirteenth to
Seventeenth.
At Seventeenth street it starts with it's
bottom on level with the bottom of the
D.
low water mark, which is made the
standard of measurement, From Seven
teenth street there will be total a fall of
over eight 1eet.
The profile shows the elevation of the
proposed sewer, and also of the present
one. 1t shows the proposed one to be
lower at all points than the present. which
will give an increased fall of several feet,
increasing the velocity of the How in the
lof ina in, tl,a foo
OF getting rid OF the solid matter passing
through them.
AT Thirteenth street the old sewer is
five feet higher than the proposed now
one, and at Sixth street it is also five feet
higher. From Sixth to Front the old
sewer raises so that at Front it is several
feet higher than at Sixth. The new sewer
from Sixth to Front will take twice the
capacity OF the present sewers, with fall
enough for laterals to the north part Of
the city. The new sewer is proposed to
run to Front and r streets.
Trustee DeVine asked If it would not be
better to have 1t run to Front and
streets, as land for the pumping plant and
pit could be bought much cheaper than at
Il street.
Mr.. Mullenney explained that if the
sewer was carried to Front and streets
it would have to be built six block s
be made for fall, and it would then be
necessary to lift it several feet higher, and
lose ia the extra cost entalled more than
the extra cost Of the land. The cost of
lifting will go on always, but the land
will only be bought once.
At Y street there will also have to be a
discharge pipe 300 feet long, running to
the river. The surface OF the eastern part
OF the city is sixteen feet above low water
4 ND y ir &c ii
feet above.
Trustee Leonard asked if an oval sewer
was not equally good or better than cir
cular one.
Surveyor Mullenney said that the oval
sewer under certain conditions is cheapest,
but there would be no material differences;
it would be best at such times as the flow
OF water was light. 1t would have to
have foundation, and be built large
enough to carry the same amount of water
as the circular one would. The Ninth
street sewer is an oval. Some of the pres
ent sewers, he said, are SO high that the
lots along had to be raised in order to use
the sewer.
Trustee Pennish made an inquiry about
concrete sewers and their value as COM
pared with brick, and Mr.. Mullenney
stated that they we're very costly and very
hard to make safe, it not being easy to de-
ii in making them the concrete was not
properly tamped, the sewer was liable to
burst. when it would be very hard TO re-
pair.
President Lawton then called Trustee
Kent to the chair and offered the follow
ing resolutions:
"WHEREAS, The city of Sacramento
has at the present time sewerage system
which is inadequate to the nee of the
fsitu ". nd Np iS lai n
sewer into which the sewers now located
may empty; therefore be it
"ReSOtUed, That main sewer should
be built from point near the Sacramento
River, and near west line of Front street,
and should run or extend easterly along
Il street to seventeenth street, connect
ing with the Seventeenth-street sewer,
and along Ninth street from K street to
and connecting with the main sewer at
the alley between K and L streets; and
that the sewer so built should be in size
six feet in hight, and of oval shape, from
the west line of Front street 10 the east
line of Fifth street, and five and d half
feet in hight from the east line of Fifth
street to the east line OF Seventh street,
and it should be five feet in hight from
the east line of Seventh street to the east
line OF Ninth street, and from Ninth to
Thirteenth four and q half feet, Thir-
teeuth to Seventeenth four feet in hight,
and five feet III hight from II street along
Ninth street to the alley between X and
l. streets; and that land should be pur
chased or condemned at or near the west
end of X street. and near the Sacramento
River; that the land purchased Or con-
demned should be about one block in ex-
tent, and that cesspool or vault, square
or nearly so in shape, and OF sufficient
size, should be built to receive all sewage
that may be emptied into it, and that Il
pumping plant should be furnished,
capable of draining or emptying the
cesspool or vault at time when the
greatest amount OF sewage and rainfall
combined should require, and that as
soon as the sewers, cesSpool and plant
above described are completed, all closets,
bathtubs and surplus water may be
emptied directly into the sewers; and
"ReS0LUed, That this resolution, the rec
concentrations of the Sewerage Commit
tee and the plans and recommendations
of the City Surveyor be referred 10 the
City Attorney, and that the said City At
torney be directed to recommend to this
Board OF Trustees the proper mode or
plan of calling an election for the purpose
OF letting the citizens of this city express
their approval or disapproval as to
whether or not the above described sew
ers, cesspool and pumping plant shall be
put in operation, and that said opinion
shall be rendered to this board on or be-
fore Monday, February 70, 1894"
Speaking in support OF it, he said that
for twenty years a system of sewerage
had been talked of and persons and COM
mittees had visited the East and exam
ined systems, sometimes at their own
expense, but nothing had been done. In
this city some Of the large sewers empty
into smaller ones. and some of them run
up hill, Instead OF talking only, as other
boards have done, this board should go
10 work. In order TO get the matter be-
fore the board and submit it to the peo-
ple he had offered the resolution and now
moved its adoption. Trustee Devine
Secondad the motion