The morning times., 1895-10-10
CARTS COULD PISS IN It
Proportions Of the Fifteenth
Street Intercepting Sewer.
OVER A MILE IN LENGTH
1t Is Over Eleven Feet In Dia meter
at Its Mouth-when ills Completed
to Seventh Street 1t VIII Inter-
cept All Sewers in the Territory
East of GcOrgetOwn.

The completion is expected within a
few days. after two years work, of one
of the main sewers which is part OF
the great system of sewers Of Washington.
The finishing Iabors on tiis.hew sewer are
To take place at the junction of Pennsyi-
vania avenue aud Fifteenth street north
west. where the huge artery is now ex-
posed.
The sewer is $500 feet long, or one
mile and one fifth. Its course is as follows:
The mouth, which is eleven feet three inches
in diameter, is at Twenty.fiflh street
north west and the Potomac channel; thence
the sewer runs across ttt, HAS to Twenty
third street. to Water street, up Water to
Twent y second, Twenty second Ia L, C
to Virginia avenue ana Nineteenth, up
Nineteenth Ia u. on u To Seventeenth,
from Seventeenth across the white Lot To
Fifteenth and Pennsylvania.
AT this last point connection is 10 be
made with the six iect three inch sewer
OF Fifteenth street. 1t is contemplated Ia
extend the large sewer up Fifteenth to +
street and down 10 seventh.
WILL INTERCEPT ALL OTHERS.
by this arrangement il will Intercept all
the sewers which run south to + street
between Seventh and Fifteenth streets.
The present effect Of the new sewer
is 10 intercept all sewers from Fifteenth
Ia T Twenty-rfth, and carry off all the
sewage formerly emptied by various
mouths into the river.
one Of the difficulties in the construction
of this work was at Twenty-second and
streets where an excavation was made
through forty-five feet OF solid rock AT
lis point was also made a tunnel through
which is to run the six foot sewer which is
To he a part of the Rock Greek interceptor
The accommodate tions for the Rock Creek
system We're made at this time, as IL was
feared that the blasting in the future would
unsettle the present work.
The Hcw sewer receives all that was
formerly empiied into the Il street sewer
which emptied into the river a { Seventeenth
street, Il matter To which special attention
was given last spring by The Times.
The sewer is constructed in three principal
sections, the dlamctcrs OF which are feet,
3 inches; 10 feet, inches, and Q feet, s
inches. the diauietcrs diminishing from the
river TO the Fifteenth street terminus
SEWERS THAT EMPTY INTO 1T
The principal sewers ii intrcrpts are the
pipe sewer at Tw?nty-third Street. Twenty
first street ami Virginia aycnue. a brick
sewer, an 1S-inch ppc sewer AT Nineteenth
street, brick sewer at Eighteenth street, Il
.2pe sewer at Seventeenth street.
When the Rock Greek sewer is completed,
which Is not a near contingency, the north
west sewag &c wilibe caught anfl carried along
tie east of the creek and thence to the part
OF intersection with the present sewer, rs
above noted. The Rock Greek sewer viii
thence follow the river to the arsenal. from
which series OF works is contemplated by
which the whole sewage viii he pumped
into The river below Alexandria.
With these two great sewers IN operation
that part OF the city from Fifteenth street
west to Georg own will he amply provided
for, and when the extension OF the Fifteenth
street sewer is made to i stTectivia street.
the whole area 10 be serv-d -will extend
town.
The work on TIE sewer about TO he COM
pletcd was commenced on June 22. 1888, the
contractors being the II. l.. Crawford Paving
Company, of this city. The present super
intendent is Mr. W. F. Breneizer.