The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-10
THE CITYS FUTURE DRAINAGE.
COL. WINS PLAN FOR AN OUTLET
AT CAUSTEN's BLUFF.

ed With the RepOrt-COI. Winn
Gives Facts ana Figures TO show
That Wilmington River Is Amply
Capable of Caring for the City's
Sewage-The Plan includes Clos
ing Part of BiIbo Canal and
Converting the Remainder Into a
Storm Drain.
The house drainage commission is in
a fair way to agree upon a definite plan
| TO present TO the city council for a sewage
| outlet for the new house drainage system.
At the meeting of the drainage commits
sion yesterday afternoon a plan was pre-
scented by Col. W. j. Winn, city engineer,
which very favorably impressed the mem
bers Of the commission. Col Wins
/ plan is regarded by the commission as
! both feasible and practical Typewriter
copies Of the report were furnished to each
member of the commission in order that
they might consider the plan at their
] leisure. The commission will doubtless
meet and act upon the report at an early
date.
The members of the commission present
at ne meeting We're Mayor Myers, chair
man; Alderman VIM. Garrard. DR.. L. A.
! Faligant, Col. John Screven. Mr.. j. ). Col
Inns and Mr.. Lawrence Lippman Alder
man +. c. Gleason was the only member
! Of the commission absent
The main feature Of the plan submitted
! by Col. Winn is the location OF the outlet
! at Caustons Bluff on Wilmington river.
! This idea was first suggested at the meet
ing Of the commission Jan. % last The
! plan includes the closing and dlling in of
large part of Bilbo canal and the con-
! verung of the remainder into a surface
/ drain to carry off storm water. The plan
/ proposes to continue the present Bolton
| street sewer co feet east TO Harmon
! street thence east 800 feet to the Bilbo
/ canal where an outlet for storm water
/ INTO the canal will be provided and the
! sewer narrowed from 9 feet to 81 by AZ
! inches, continuing at this size for dis
! lance OF Also feet, then increased to a
| SIZE ot 4Nb feet and continued 12050 feet
| miles.
! Col. Winn's estimate Of the cost Of this
! work. exclusive Of the cost of filling in
| the Bilbo canal is $llS,04535 The plan is
| based on an estimate for a population Of
| l0JW peop;e. FOR a large sewer, sufh-
| SSy,55.C9o people, the cost IS estimated at
The main point to be considered, the
disposal OF the sewage in Wilmington
/ river at Causton's Bluff, and the capacity
| OF the river to receive and dispose of the
| sewage, is discussed at length
The question of discharging the sewage
| into the Savannah river which policy
! has been persistently urged upon the COM
/ mission, IS FIRST considered and disposed
/ Of The objection to this plan, Col. Winn
| concludes, are insurmountable. Any prac-
! ticable outlet for the discharge of the
| sewage into the Savannah river, he says
must be near or else in the midst
/ Of an important shipping locality, where
] the sewage VIII contaminate the river wa
/ ter, which is used for drinking by sea-
4 men, by many OF the residents of the city
and by others working on or near the
Il ION
| of the sewage would be ample, it Is a rec
! oSnized fact ne says, that neither this,
! nor any ordinary chemical process viii
| destroy the organic or living germs of
| matter.
mo matter at what time Of ebb tide the
/ sewage is discharged, ii viii present an
| the point lower down where ii meets the
| Hood tide, and with this flood tide it win
| be borne to and above the outlet, IN fact,
/ along and beyond the whole front of the
city, as was indicated by trial float that
! was started near Fort jackson on the
! llrst of the flood and doated up past the
! hermitage before the turn Of the tide,
/ ana as pollution increases, so these OBJ
] 1ectionable results will be proportionately
| increased, and even II the point of dis
| charge is carried further from the
| city this objection will still continue so
| far as the shipping is concerned, which
| will, and in fact. already promises to ex-
Sewage discharged into the Savannah
| river might prove in a single epidemic, IN
! money as well as in wrecked lives, far
| more costly than the additional cost of a
longer conduit disCharging into salt or
nOn-drink3 BILE water where contamination
cannot be dangerous and where dilution
! Is virtually as complete as if DISCHARGED
| into the Savannah river"
Col Winn quotes several authorities on
! city sewage along wharf and shore fronts
| and the impossib.lity of neutralizing dis
| ease germs by diution.
In speaking of the point selected for the
! outlet Col. VIM SAYS that the waters Of
! Wilmington river being brackfsh or salt
are not drinkable and hence would not in
| any manner be dangerously affected by
| "mOrbltic organic matter or germs" The
| sewage would be discharged where ii
would nor offend public taste or opinion,
The width of the savannah river oppo-
| site Bilbo canal is 746 feet. The width of
| Wilmington river at CaustOn's Bluff is 900
! feet. The average depth of the channel
is 2l1a feet. 1t has three connections with
the sea, by the channel OF the Savan>
| gustine creek and Warsaw sound
/ Surveys to ascertain the capacity OF the
| river to dispose of the sewage were made
| by Mr.. }. deBruyn Hops, assistant engi-
| neer. It was found that the volume on
! the HOOD tide passing this point in twelve
| hours ana fifteen minutes is 193,393053 cubic
| feet and on the ebb 233, 507. 747 cubic fec,
| The highest rise of the tide at Causton $
! Bluff during the five days of ObserVa tion
was - feet above the mean low water
! mark and the lowest fall Is below Floats
| placed in the river al Causton's Bluff at
the beginning of the flood went no furfbar
| toward the Savannah river than few
| hundred feet beyond the Tybee railroad
| bridge, distance of about three miles
| from whence they returned on the ebb
tide, thus demonstrating that but little
! apprehension need be fSet that the sew
age will contaminate the waters Of the
! Savannah river.
The line of the survey is through Boil
! ton street TO the lands of Meinhard ana
Lester. thence through the lands Of Law
ton, Morrison, Screven and Rowland to
40 lFrnf r
| plan submitted embraces a line for sew
age discharge to Wilmington river and n
| storm overflow via Harmon street to the
! lower portion of Bilbo canal
EXAMINATION FOR WEST POINT.