The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-31
SOUTHAMPTON.

very busy arranging for their sixth
 annual masquerade ball, which will be
 given in Germania hall on Monday
 evening, February Il.
 The last real estate transfer recorded at the town clerks office is a house and
 land on West Queen street from H, D.
 Miller of this place to F. G. Barrett
 of New Haven,
 The interest which has been shown in the revival services being held at the
 M. E. church still increases and the
 meetings will be continued for some time.
 w. w. Knowles is still very ill with | heart trouble.
 The funeral of Miss Helen Gridley,
 daughter of J. w. Gridley, treasurer of
 the Southlngton' Cutlery company, will
 be held from the house this afternoon
 at 1:3O. Services will be conducted by
 Rev. Joseph Danielson; burial in South
 End cemetery.
 MIR. MACKENzIEs REPORT.
 Report of T. H. Mckenzie, c. E.: To
 the honorable board of warden and
 burgesses of the borough of Southing-
 ton, Conn.
 | Gentlemen: I have the honor to sub
 init herewith a brief report on the sew
 craze of Southington, including esti-
 mates on the cost, of constructing the
 proposed system.
 l On account of having made previous surveys of the streets for the purpose l of designing a water supply and laying street grades and by this means ac-
 quired a knowledge of the topography
 of the town, I did not consider it neces- sary to make extensive surveys for the purpose of these estimates. The sur veys, as already made are sufficient for the purposes of making an accurate estimate of the work, and in the event of construction complete detail plans | can be prepared.
 My plans with reference to the adop- tion of the Separate System" of sewers | conveying only the sewage proper, and limited amount of roof and sub-soil waters to the outfall, leaving the bulk of the street and roof waters to be car ried by other channels to the nearest water course.
 My reasons for recommending the sep arate system are, that it will probably be necessary to purify the sewage be- fore emptying into a running stream, and on account of the expense of puri- flcation and the large expenditure in- volved in conveying the sewage to a | location sufficiently remote from the village for the purpose of treatment, it would not be wise to build the sewers of | sufficient capacity to convey storm wa ters, which can be turned into the near est watercourses without injuring any one.
 My first investigations were in the | line of determining whether sufficient | areas of land suitable for purification by | filtration could be reached by gravity.
 I find that the most desirable location | for the construction of filter4beds is on | a tract of land owned by Samuel Bow | CTS, and located along the north bank | of the Quinnipiac river, from 300 to 1,500 | feet westerly from the bridge on the Waterbury turnpike, and about one quarter mile westerly from Stilman's corners. This tract contains about twenty-eight acres, of which nineteen acres lies from two to four feet below the proper level for filter-beds, The IGIldlulllB Illt ttIGp SN Gl GtsSC oCFGll ACtA above the bottom grade of the main sewer. As the soil on this tract seems to be well adapted for filtration, and the location so remote from dwellings as to be unobjectionable, I have concluded to recommend this site for your adop tion. The low ground would be filled and levelled off about one foot below the bottom grade of the sewer, and di- vided by dykes into filterbeds of about an acre each.
 It is not probable that more than five acres of filter-beds will be required for your present needs. The remainder of the land can be graded as required The plans as have prepared them pro- vide for the grade of the main sewer beginning at the filter-beds al an eleva- tion of eleven feet above the water in the river and rising uniformly one foot per thousand feet for the entire length to Center street, Southington. The Summer street sewer will be laid on the same grade.
 The route is over private property from the filter-beds to the corner of Mulberry and South Main streets, thence along South Main street to the corner of Main street Plantsville; thence along Main street to Bristol street, and over Bristol street to Center street, Southington. The grade at this point is six feet below the top of the rails at railroad crossing near the bolt shop.
 The grade as proposed is the least al- lowable fall for a twenty-inch sewer, and should give velocity of 118 feet per minute, which Is sufficient to make the sewer self-cleaning. A depth of ff- teen feet will be necessary on some DOT tions of South Main street, but as the material is dry gravel this depth will not be objectionable.
 The section of Main street, Plants vile, in front of the residence of F. H, Plant, and the sections of Summer street from Main street north to the of John Flannigan, also the short section from Knowles street to the residence of Mrs. Fench are the governing points in the matter of lay Ing a grade for the main sewer, along these sections the bottom grade of the sewer is two degrees three minutes be- ow the surface. This will necessitate