The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-16
IN FAVOR OF TWO SYSTEMS.
COL. WYNN OPPOSED TO MINING
STORM WATER AND SEWAGE.

/ He Regards Such "a System of Drain
age Unsanitary-He Differs With
MIR. sugden on Many Points, But
Agrees That the savannah River Is
the Only Feasible Outlet.
The report Of Col. w. ]. VIM, city en-
gineer. to the special committee on house
drainage, on the plans for house drainage
submitted by Messrs. Herring and Sugden.
has been printed and will shortly be ready
for general distribution. as intended by
the committee.
The report is concise and brief for so
important a subject. and shows a careful
consideration. Col. VIM differs with Mr..
Sugden on the main points of his
plan. He is opposed to a
combined system of sewerage for
carrying Off both storm water and sewage,
which he says has proven both unsanitary
and unsatisfactory. He says: 1.-The COM
bined system requires large sewers. esti-
mated to take off in reasonable time the
rainfall of as much as one and a half
inches per hour. and seldom are the sew
ers large enough to do the work, because.
in this section. cloud bursts frequently oc-
cur causing even the larger sewers to be
inadequate, and IL contaminated with
sewage, evil results occur, not only in
overhows, but In causing deleterious gases
to escape into dwellings. 1t is suggested
that the present sewers of the city be used
as much as possible These .so-called sew
ers. or rather drains. are quite untitled to
serve the purposes of excretal sewers they
are but elongated cess-pools that. during
dry seasons, accumulate gases, thus vio-
lating the most vital law
of sanitation, which gases will be forced
up at every rain storm, by reason of the
diminution of the area, into our dwell
ings. In the language of DR.. c. w. Chan
cellor. ex president of the Maryland state
board of health, and now consul to Ha-
vre ANY system that is not devised to
carry off eXcremental matter and house
hold wastes before Preventative putrefac-
ton takes place. and at the same time
carry off all gases as rhey are formed,
so that such gases be not allowed to
accumulate in the sewers until they be-
come dangerous, are absolutely defective"
Few of the present sewers Of the city
meet this requirement.
sewers to take away house refuse
should be of such capacity and construc-
ton as to give sufficient velocity to be
self-cleansing, should be perfectly tight,
except where ventilation is provided, and
not as our sewers are, which, laid with
=. open bottoms, in wet weather receive
the subsoil water, and in dry weather per-
init the sewage to leak into the earth,
pOlluting the soil"
He quotes eminent authorities further on
this line. Like Mr.. Herring and Mr.. Sug-
den, Col. VIM regards the Savannah riv-
er as the only feasible point of outlet for
the sewerage of the city He finds sever
al faults with Mr.. Sugden's plan for car
rying off storm water and drainage by
one sewer, chiefly that the proposed sew
ers would be inadequate for the purpose
and their construction bad from an en-
doubts the advisabiity of emptying the
sewage so near the city as the mouth of
BilbO canal
Col. VIM agrees with the main points
of Mr. Herring's plan, which provides for
separating the sewage and storm water
and using Bilbo canal exclusively for the
discharge of storm water. On the line ad-
vocated by Mr.. Herring he suggests the
following plan:
mencing at Bolton street and laid in the
west bank of the Bflbo canal to the river
to be used exclusively for recommendations
matter and house waste the storm water
to pass off as follows: In general terms
all that territory north of Liberty and east
of West Broad to go by way of Perry lane
sewer; that embraced between Liberty
and Anderson by way of the Bolton street
sewer and that territory south of Ander-
son street by sewers leading to Casey
canal; the western slope to drain by way
of the West Broad street sewer into the
river; Bilbo canal to be left an open
water way, with plank bottom and brick
sides, as far as Perry lane. Should the
committee prefer the sewer of nine feet
diameter on Bolton street could be contin-
ued down Bolton street to Harmon stree;
down Harmon street, passing the cotton
mills, and thence to near Perry lane I'm
der no circumstances however would
recommend a covered sewer for storm wa
ter to extend any further than Perry lane
for after passing this lane, we get into
low lands, necessarily intercepted with
open drains on every hand, and besides
the flood tide would ma terially impair the
usefulness of this end of a covered sewer T"
total cost he
Col. VIM submits q map with his re-
port showing the different lines suggest
ed Tor sewers and points of outlet After
considering the subject from all points of
view he submits plan which he con-
siders an Improvement on that advoca-
TED by MIR. Herring. He proposes to run
a fve-teet sewer from Bolton street lane
down said lane to Harmon street,
10 NE OH r5 street east on Wolf street
northeasterly direction through the
lands Of Spears, Myers. estate of Law
and Western railroad, a total dis
70 the river $500 'i feet Z" 3 below oRr
Bilbo canal This is the point of outier
favored by Mr.. Herring, but the line 5y
than by his survey. This excretai sewer
open, drain for storm water down Bilbo
canal or with sewer of nine feet diam
eter extended from Bolton street to near
estimate of the cost of this plan:
For sewer of five feet diameter. for sew
age only, $S7,27114; for open drain. Rilbo
canal $44l9O; total, $l3l. 46l. IA; or, fer sew
er of five feet diameter, for sewage only.
SS1,2ll IA; for sewer of nine feet diameter
via Harmon street to Perry lane s53
49, for sewerage and filling Bilbo canal
and low lands, $4,000; total $191. 900 IA
Col Winn was aided in making IN his
report by Assistant City Engineer J. de
Bruyn Kops,T Messrs. e j. Thomas ana
R. N. Screven, civil engineers, and Mr.
J. W. Howard, draughtsman.