The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-01
Common Council.
Common Council Room,

common Council.
Common Council Room,
Owosso, Mich., March %, 1898.
Regular meeting of Common Council. Mayor
Aldermen present at roll CALL Wiley, Dewey,
zimmerman, Shaw, White, Jordan, Watson,
Walsh.
Minutes of last regular and special meeting
read and approved.
Aid. Zimmerman presented following petition
which was upon motion referred to the commit
tee on streets and sidewalks.
To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
of the city of Owoss0:
We the undersigned citizens and taxpayers of
the city of OwossO do hereby petition this honor
able body that they order and cause to be built a
crosswalk across Oliver street at the intersection
OF Gilbert and Oliver streets in the city of Owes
so. w. ID. Griffith and others.
Aid. White offered following resolution, which
was upon motion adopted ayes 8, nays 0.
Resolved by the common council of the city of
OwOssO that some action be taken to quiet noise
and disturbance caused by boys playing ball on
vacant lots or In streets near the residence of
Robert Marsh.
Aid. Zimmerman presented following report,
which was upon motion adopted; ayes 8, nays o.
Your committee on streets and sidewalks to
whom was referred a petition praying for side
walk on west side Howell street, south of Gin
ton street, would respectfully report favorable.
&. Il. Zimmerman. V. M. White.
Aid. Walsh offered following resolution which
was upon motion adopted; ayes s, nays 0.
Resolved by the common council of the city of
Owosso that the city clerk be and is hereby in
structed to notify the Michigan Telephone Com
pany to take out all of their phones now in use
by said city of Owosso on April 1st, 1898. as the
city will have no use for them after that date.
Following claims and accounts were presented
and referred to the committee on claims and ac-
counts.
From Contingent Fund-H. E, Riggs $4,000,
Police Telephone and Signal Co. 1878 A. X.
Giles 1900. John Ashford 16 %, VIM. Barrisford
33 90, j. Il, Cady 33 90, John Hammond $500,
Owosso Fire Dept, $500. A. X. Giles 400: Times
Pig Co, 1000, Ira G.. Curry 80 l.. T.. Woodland
&c., ssme 26 SO, Water works fund l5 1861.
From Highway Fund-Frank Mack 6 90, A. r..
Shoup lS7, j. Doyle 70. d. Speck 4 49, G.. A.
Cole 1854, same 90, Cook & Melvin 20.
From Water Works Fund-C. Lawrence 81. 90,
Irwin Thomas 62, j. s. Hunt so, Floyd Bloom
er 1880, G. A. Beebe 1850, Charles Jackson AZ so,
G. Ii. COssitt 1900, James Walker & Son 6 %,
Bourbon Copper & Brass Works 25 80, Caledonia
Elec Light & Power Co. 800, G. Lawrence 90,
j. s. Hunt 1900, Owosso Boiler Works 200. G,
Balcom 80, John Schrader so, G.. Balloon %,
A. Todd & Co. 54.40, same $50, same 65.79, same
81 SO, same 1923. American Express Co. 20, Cas-
tree a. Shaw 1877, The Crandall Packing CO.lO.72,
Bourbon Copper Il Brass Works 300, Hays Mfg.
Co. A.
Committee on claims and accounts reported
favorable on accounts as above presented, unan-
imOuS consent being given same was allowed;
ayes =, nays 0.
Clerk presented following report. TWAS NOV
ed that the same be received and ordered print
TO the Board of Public Works, Owosso, Mich:
Gentlemen have made surveys of the dis
trlct along the river bank with view of deter
mining what outlet could be secured for the sew
submit herewith profile showing the line run
by me along the river bank; also profile along
the line of Mr.. Persons proposed main sewer.
The criticism to be made on Engineer Pier
sons plans are:
l. The sewer is unnecessarily deep along River
street. and IL ought to be located on the lower
lands nearer the river to avoid excessive cut.
iUVnrtad SVnhOuS G.
ings, while practicable and under some circum-
stances advisable. are not desirable. as they are
apt to be constant source of trouble and ex-
pense In maintenance.
3. No provision is made by Mr.. PiersOn for
carrying his sewers under COmstock creek, and
In every case the sewer will be above the bed OF
the stream. The main sewer on River street
will form complete dam If another inverted sy-
1. The grades as established on the map do
not provide any outlet for large district east of
8. The grades as established make no provision
for cellar drainage either by under-drains or In
We find on making surveys that If we estab-
lish point low enough to carry our main sewer
under the river at Main street we can get under
the river at Washington street on the same
grade that Mr.. Pierson has, viz Oh per cent.
We can also drain any cellar in Owosso and
maintain good grades on our laterals.
West of Main street. however, we have very
light grade at best. Half an inch per hundred
feet Is the best that we can do. This will give us
an outlet at SnlawaSSee street Drdge or 2400 rect
The grade mentioned is considerably below
the minimum grade for 30-inch sewer. We will
have velocity of over 80 feet per minute. and
discharge of something over 400 cubic feet per
minute when running half full.
This will be ample capacity for your city, as 1t
will discharge about 10000 gallons per hour or
over 100000 gallons per day.
Assuming that each person uses 200 gallons of
water a day and that 1t all reaches the sewer
you are providing for over 10000 population.
This capacity is ample, provided you rigidly ex-
clude storm water from your system. Mr.. Pier
rain water in this system of sewerage.
The matter thus resolves itself into a question
of whether 1t is desirable to adopt light grade
on our sewer.
It is not an unprecedented grade. will refer
to examples given in Mr. Persons book on sew
erage for proof of this statement. The sewer is
an outlet main sewer, having very few connec-
tons except through laterals. and can safely
work under head II necessary. We can flush It
with water taken direct from the river and can
secure as large a flushing stream as we desire.
1t appears TO me necessary that your outlet
sewer provide for all the sewage of the city
above Washington street, and In no other way
can this be done unless we have recourse to
pumping.
/ would therefore. advise adopting the low
grade. 1 would recommend the use of pipe
throughout, building no part of the sewer of
brick would warn you that its construction
must be most carefully DONE aud that grades
must be exact, as any errors would be fatal. 1
would advise extending under both river cross
lngs on Main and Washington streets at once,
and would further advise that the sewer be car
ried down the river 2400 to 26t0 feet below Shia-
wassee street bridge, as this would carry it past
all dwellings and would leave the sewer at n
be necessary.
/ do not consider 1t probable that you will al
ways be permitted to empty your sewage into
ti.,t