The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-23
m DISCUSS HOUSE DRAINAGE.
o, wARING TO CONFER WITH
THE ALDERMEN TONIGHT.

s,rtion of This Much Vexed
o,.stion in Prospect in the Early
.gnture-Cost Said TO Be Not Over
s,,o.oOO Under Plans Now Under
considerntiOn-WOu Effect "A
coat saving in the water supply.
,..,nciI said to De FavOrabIy Dis
,,osed to the work.
-,1 George E. Warning, the distinguished
..,itary engineer, who is now New York
4 .1,,s street cleaning commissioner, will
live in the city this afternoon for the
N -,rnose of consulting with the drainage
.o-,mittee of council and possibly with
hat body itself, upon the subject of a
,stem of house drainage for Savannah.
Ar invitation to come to Savannah was
,v,ended to Col. Waring by wire and he
r.sDonded accepting it at once. Some
.,-rsspondence had been previously had
nrb Col. Waring on the subject and Mr..
Herbert Tate of New York, who is here
ready to make a proposition to construct
system of house drainage, has his in
dorsement.
The invitation to Col. Warning to visit
Savannah on the present occasion is emil
rently appropriate. Several years ago Col.
yraring made a survey of the city by d.
re.-ion of council and submitted a plan
nj house drainage. Plans were submit
rcd by other engineers, but the one pro-
nos4d by Col. Warning has been for some
time considered the most feasible of any.
Alderman Wylly, chairman of the drain
age committee, is taking a great deal of
interest in this matter, and is confident
that the steps which have been taken will
result in giving to Savannah a system of
house drainage thoroughly up to date and
at a much lower cost than has ever been
estimated before and upon terms which
will make the payment easy.
THE Waring SYSTEM" said Alderman
Willy, lis intended to be entirely sepa-
rate from the storm water and surface
drainage system, leaving the present sys-
TEN of large sewers and drains free to
carry off the surface drainage. This
means that to carry off the house drain
age only small pipes and small sewers
will be required, thus effecting a consid-
cradle saving in construction and insur-
ing the expeditions removal of filth
"
fronted the city whenever the question of
house drainage was mentioned was that
of a sufficient water supply with which
to permit the flushing of the pipes daily.
Supt Lotion of the water works informs
us that with our present crude system of
sewers the amount of water required to
flush the sewers is 100000 gallons daily.
Under the Warning system provision is
made for flushing the pipes twice a day
by means of automatic flush tanks and
the amount of water required for this
purpose is only $4,000 gallons daily for
the whole system, thus effecting a saw
ing in the water supply of 10000 gallons
every twentyfour hours"
No estimates of the cost have been sub
mitted as yet, but the remarkably low fig
ure of $4,000 has been named
outlet Mr. Tate, who is here
for this purpose, stated to a Morning News
reporter yesterday that he is ready to
submit proposition to undertake the
work as soon as the plans are decided on,
and to accept in payment the city's notes.
conference will be held at the city
exchange tonight between Col. Waring
and the house drainage committee. to
which the other members of council will
be invited The whole subject will be
thoroughly discussed and arrangements
Will doubtless be made to submit a plan
to council for the approval of that body.
The much-mooted question of the proper
outlet for the system will come up for
consideration.
There was probably never a time in the
history of the city when the outlook for
a speedy solution of the much-discussed
and extremely important question of
mousse drainage was more favorable.
Council appears inclined to take the mat
ter up and push it to completion.