The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-06
PlS COUNTY DRAINAGE.
!. rat Should BE Remedied at
0nce.
|,GE 10 THE COUNTY ROADS.
-, y,om County surveror W. a
..vardin, tho Harrisburg
n p,iveway- Suggestions.

a.. ,een considerable said about
.,,.se in and about the city of
airing the recent rain. Outside
" limits the Harrisburg road was
y, 10 about the extent of $50 and
,,somery road 10 by the heavy
- the water y .,ssing over them.
e,rveyor W. y. Polk was seen
Nv reporter of The Post and
.soni the matter, lie was asked.
n YOUR opinion is the cause of the
NJ the territory adjacent to the
80 rad during the recent rain?"
main cause exists he replied,
.nnlies 10 the city as well as the
y"
sat is that"
laer Of proper lateral drainage. In
~ IN noint this applies in this way:
. ohme of water that Is thrown into
iarrisburg road from the lnterna-
and Great Northern depot to
,se IaPorte road crosses the Har-
!, road. ls far too great. and the
~ drained by this magnificent
,s f,,,Iv three times greater than
"a no The water that is thrown
ui1 ,h,own 10 II. and no ADEQUATE
has hnen furnished to take the
away"
IN how does the lack of proper
sre In the city affect the shell road?"
astod
on,ng IN answer that question
' ~. s,ondno,nt of an eve witness
nod maj of an engineer" he re-
~ vac informed early Saturday
:, bv countv Judge Tod of the
,,r n matters on the road and i'm
rnmnanv with Jack Mulcahv. the
rood ,usppctor NV idea was to
"a, ra,lof could be given TO those
IA bv the overflow. We found
Ms surface water from beyond
store quite a distance inside the
'ni.s drained into the Harrisburg
rsrt hevond the Sanueon street
hsvond pradv'g and to pumler's
hafore finding AN outlet from the
r,,d Had thrown n cork I'm tho
NJ The road this side of the Sanp-
meet ditch could have seen IT
,vsr the shell road nj Dumler's and
x,a lis wav into Brav's bavou. in
Of right across to Buffalo BAYOU.
N belongs The most important
that | would suggest Is along the
or,e road. All the water between
Galveston La Porte and Houston
Nv naturally belongs to Buffalo
and the culyerfs of the railway
furnish the county norton of The
khurr road as far down ms the in
,on Of the shell road and the mil
I'M ms much water as fine Harris-
,oad should get from the Runalo
,de altogether learned this Inv
n companv with several othcrs to
Ms where we watched the rail-
Eulyer, for Some time Saturday At
lme the culvert was charged 10 lis
Rpac,tv d,scharrinr I'm the direction
road an imuense volume of water
Hnr IN TO and AGAINST the strin.ars
tyateulne every minute to tear tho
away We have no businesa ia
this water. which Buffalo bavou
and should have. There is anothor
that Commissioner Rice. Judge
nd have adyocoted for some limo
Is 10 ARRANGE to drnin tho water
Slaughter Pen bovou from tho tIar.
X road The county has not had
sht of way for bitches and the citi.
who are mostly Interested in the
bly, have been ,ndisnosed ia moo,
bmuissioners IN their efforts ia ne.
sh this end There is another hor.
etween the harrisburg road and
hter Pen bavou In Tho enbanl,mert
International and Great Northerr
~ The ditches Of tho railroa.; rc.
to should he dcener or else dooncr
oad IN sI,Mu ~ - r az IischeS III ,,,I