The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-25
PUMPING STATION LOCATED.
Site Selected between West Boun-
Diary Street and the Canal.

Diary street and the Canal.
The Central Railroad has leased to the
city site for a pumping station on the
west side to be used in connection with
the house drainage system. The site is
between the two railway bridges of the
Central across the Ogeechee canal, hav-
ing a frontage of 40 feet on West Boun-
dairy street, and running back TO the
canal. The lease is for ten years at tie
nominal rental of 81 per annum and with
the privilege. of renewal at the end of the
ten years
The plan of house drainage provides for
small automatic pumping station on
the west side to convey the sewage of the
western section, south of the Central
Railway property, to the main sewer on
the west side, the territory alluded to be-
ing too low to be made a part of the sys-
tenn otherwise
1t Is the generally expressed opinion
of members of the board that Council
will not allow, the work to lapse on ac-
count of any troubles of the contractors
as the result of the present litigation in
shtuted by them. April is the time fix
ed for the work to cease for this season,
and both city and contractors will have
plenty of time to make other arrange
ments by Nov. l, when the work is to be
resumed. The present intention of Coun-
Gil is TO have the work resumed on Nov. /
and pushed TO completion.
The contractors are now stacking up
their work TOW
on April l. Commissioner of Public
Works Willink has given them notice that
all streets disturbed by them must be
placed in good order and the pavements
restored. Much of the work of replacing
payements, which has already been done
by the contractors, has been so poorly
done that it will have to be done over
again.
The contractors will necessarily be COM
PEELED to make some arrangement to con-
tlnue the work this fall as they could not
aHord 10 discontinue now without great
loss to themselves. Although only about
one-fourth of the work has been com
pleted so far, the work which has been
done was by far the hardest of the whole
contract and has undoubtedly cost the
contractors more to construct than thew
have received for it, Practically all the
work so far has been through paved streets
entailing q heavy expense upon the con-
tractors for removing and replacing paw
ing. The cuts have, for the most part, been
deep. In the northern part of the city
the streets and lanes through which pipe
| have been laid We're not only for the most
part paved, but were INSTRUCTED with old
sewers, water and gas pipes, telephone
conduits and old cesspools A perfect net
work of these Instructions was found in
| Congress street lane. This made the work
slow and difficult.
! we have just gotten away from the
worst section, said Mr. John Rourke to
a Morning News reporter. 1.-The further
! south we go the fewer instructions there
are and the grades are shallower gang
of men can lay pipe four or five times
as fast south of Liberty street as they
can north of it. With the exception of
| the knoll which is vet to be gone through
on East Broad street, the heavy work on
! the big sewer there IS about over. We
| have things just in that shape where, if
! everything else can be arranged satisfac-
torily. we can jump right in and shove the
work through"
| Beside the material which has been
put under the ground the contractors
| have large supply of pipe on hand, the
| factory having loaded them up with it re-
| Gently. The large yard between Indian and
| River streets is piled high with pipe OF
| many sizes and dimensions. Mr. D. c.
| McCurdy is here representing the Column
| bia Fire Clay Pipe Company of East
! Palestine, O.. and expresses himself as
| satisfied that everything will be arranged
| satisfactorily.