Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-17
JAMES CREEK CANAL
The Commissioners Planning to Re-
deem Its Character.
TOBUILDAGREAT INTERPRETING SEWEP
Congress to Be Asked for Money
for the Work.
AN IMPORTANT PROJECT


Tboro 10 over,, ,r,sn.,+ +h.+ tho 1.,,as
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NreeA eanai' WIN us ioui' oisease-oreeoihs
contents, will be purified, and cease to be
a menace both to the lives and health of
the neo,,a
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Noi'i.ssio"eiS piopose ~ oo Ill III
tneir power to remedy matters, and de-
termined effort will be made at the next
session of Congress- to got an annronr,..
49,, ~ o. 81 1pp1 W,
'ion suiiAcien' 10 carry oue d proJece that
Will sofve the question Tor some time to
come. Each year since 1890, when the
board of sanitary engineers made its re-
port upon the sewerage OF the District. the
commissioners nave been able to secure
from Congress little help in the matter
OF carrying out the project OF that board.
so the commissioners feel certain that
this year good appropriation will be Sc
cured to commence this important work
For some time past the engineer depart
ment has been hard at work devising some
scheme whereby the sewage which now
flows into the James Creek canal through
the Tiber Creek sewer could be diverted
and the canal kept uncontaminated. Can't.
Beach, who has the direct srnervisjon Of
the sewerage system of the city, has been
especially active in this work and the
Engineer Commissioner has given the SUBJ
Ject his personal attention. They believe
n IA
matter of improving the sewerage system
of Washington is to build an intercenting
sewer which will diyert all sewage from
the Jamns craaL csna1 and Mase ,.as'e itoait tSat
an open waterway entirely fraa frnm
pollution nv SEWAGE
While the Commissioners nronose .+o
make a struggle 70 have ali tboir osti,,. . ta.
turned into annronr;ationa thav .,;n 60,
centrate thair aesprt - 'ey wiz COL .
ting an annronriat;an e.. tI,, su, III ~ c,- se.-
sewcr IN tha astima+as for th;a 49, IN
Engineer Commissioner has asked for an
appi opIia tioh OF sloo.ooo' with authority to
tirs sou,er a. aas, toi culi9inss .ns ne en- en-
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f'ahs MADE.
' uiis 70 'he piahs' tnls lnterceptor
~ d. Tue CORNER oi anu ISL
stree,s northwest, where 1t will intercept
the old Tiber sewer at the lowest point at
which it is possible to receive the storm
water for the purpose of delive-,np q hv
gravity to the Eastern branch. Its course
will then be through g and Arthur streets
to the Capitol grounds, thence through the
Capitol grounds on the line of Arthur
street to about the line of the southern
side of the CAPITOL, and thence southeastern
ly to the junction of Delaware avenue and
South B street From South e street 1t
will pass through Delaware avenue to
Canal street. through Canal street to Gar
field Park across Garfield Park to New
Jersey avenue and through New Jersey
avenue to the Eastern branch, This loca-
ton Of the outlet gives the shortest dis
tance to the river from the point of inter-
ception.
At the foot of New Jersey avenue, lit
tie above the proposed pumping station.
the Tiber creek and New Jersey avenue III
terceptor will discharge its dry-weather
flow into the street and New Jersey eve
nue. trunk sewer through connecting pipe,
which will be provided with a positive gate
and with an automatic gate for cutting OH
Or regulating the flow.
Eourteen-Foot Sewer.
NJ, 1a,.a,, .,,on,,e
The ilper creek anu view Jersey o.eu
interceptor will have UNIFORM diameter Oh
fourteen feet down to the correcting pipe,
whore the level of the inyert will be nearly
80, aot,,,o Eron, +b;s noint tn
ten ieee oeio~ oa.oA M -. .n Ea.t.o
the tide gate at the bank Oh the eastern as ~
branch the section or the sewer VIII pe
modified by increasing lts Wioth anu .ais -
ing the nvert so as TO oring us coheenes ~
the tide gate chamber as nearly OPPOSITE
the tide gates as posslele. Inc sa.es ~ ue
accessible should not extend very Iar De
low low tide, and 1t would oe OF niue . ao.
vantage to extend them more mo a1 tnan aan,;n .oot
above high tide, because the water al nowins ~
from the sewer would not rise 10 illi .heni. u,
AS the height OF the gate Is mus nmi'eu 10
six or seven feet, ana the Wloth Oh each
gs te Is also limited by practicapie cohsiu
eratiOnS it will be necessary, IN OrQeT 10