The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-05
TO GO TO WILMINGTON RIVER.
THE HOUSE DRAINAGE COMMIs-
SION READY TO REPORT.

I The Report 10 BE Based Upon City
Engineer Wins Recommended
ton Of CaustOn's Blum on Will
minEton River a. the outlet for
the OutfaII sewer-Sewage Could
Not Menace the City's Health
Then-Other Important Work 20
he Done by the Com mission.
The drainage commission. which has
/ been considering the question Of sew
age outlet for some time. will make re-
port 10 the city council shortly. The com
mission met yesterday afternoon at the
city exchange and adopted the report on
sewage outlet submitted to the commits
sion by City Engineer VIM June 4. A
committee was appointed TO formulate
q report 10 council. based on Col. Winn's
plan. A committee was also appointed to
negotiate for rights-of-way for the Outfan
sewer.
Generally speaking. Col. WINS report
recommends that the Outfal sewer be
built to CaustOn's Blur on the Whining
ton river. a distance OF about four miles
from the mouth Of the Bolton street
sewer The plan proposes TO continue the
present Bolton street sewer GO feet east
TO Harmon street, thence east 800 feet 10
the BiIbo canal. where an outlet for storm
water into the canal will be provided
and the sewer narrowed from feet 10
% by a inches, continuing at this size
for a distance of Also feet, then increased
to size OF 4x6 feet and continued 12,O50
feet to Wilmington river. The total dis
lance to be covered is %, 100 feet, or nearly
four miles.
Col. WINS estimate OF the cost OF this
work, exclusive Of the cost Of filling in
the Bilbo canal, is $11S,045.35. The plan is
based on an estimate for a population Of
1900 people. For a large sewer, sum-
Client for the needs of a population Of
200 900 people. the cost is estimated at
1885,, 6S245
When the commission was first appoint
ed. nearly year ago, there was a strong
disposition to empty the sewage into the
Savannah river by converting the Bilbo
canal into covered sewer. After an eX-
haustive consideration of the subject and
several reports by engineers, this idea was
finally abandoned on sanitary grounds,
and Col. Winn's plan of carrying the
sewage to Wilmington river Endorsed by
the commission. BY this plan the sewage
Is completely disposed of at a point where
1t Will not be a menace TO the health of
the city and where Il cannot contaminate
the water of the Savannah river, which
may be needed again some day by the
city for drinking purposes. The argu-
ments in favor of this outlet and the item
lied cost of the work will be fully set
forth in the report Of the commission to
council.
II need not be imagined that the COM
mission win have concluded its work in
making this report A very important por-
ton of the work intrusted to it remains
yet to be done. This report applies only to
the outfaH sewer The next work of the
committee will be to recommend a plan
of house drainage to be applied within the
city itself, and this will require fully as
much investigation and discussion as was
required to arrive at a conclusion on the
subject OF an outfan sewer.
The present sewerage of the city Is with
out system, and is lamentably bad. To de-
wise a plan which will make use of the
present imperfect sewers will be very diff
| tcult and an entirely new and up to date
system of sewerage will prove very cost
| ly. This is one of the problems which in
coming city administrations must face and
which is destined to become one of the
chief items of municipal expense for sew
eral years to come.