The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-02
Will Be Among the
Best in the State
When Completed.
ONE REASON FOR HIGHER TAXES
Surface Water to Be Sepa-
rated from Sludge, and
Other improvements.

Webster, July lone of the chief
essentials in the sudden rise of taxa
ton is the new proposed sewerage sys-
tenn that will soon be laid. The recent
ly elected board of sewer commission
ers, Messrs. Charles Haggerty, Charles
A. Woisard and Fred A. Wellington
are hustling the plans along and it is
expected that work will soon be com
menced.
The new sewer is to be a separate
system. At the present time there are
old sewers that receive surface water
1t is proposed to separate this surface
drainage, turning it into the natural
water courses and the Maanexit river
1t will cover the entire settled section
Of the town.
The committees idea is not to dis
charge any of the sewer water in the
river until it has passed through the
filter beds, but it is planned to have
an overflow at the outlet of the out
fall sewer that might be used in case
of emergency or serious accident to the
machinery at the pumping station.
There will not be any underdrains tC
remove ground water, and with tie
SACGpllOll VI LIE Oulldll SSWeTs Tie sew
ers are almost wholly above ground
water level, and the outfall sewer it.
self will be composed largely Of cast
iron pipe.
The outlet of the outfall sewer at the
collecting we'll will begin at an ele-
walton of 40650 and will fol-
low the easterly bank of the Hiaan-
exit river to Peter street. This lire will
pass through Chase's mill pond. and
under the Worcester and GrotoE rail-
road tracks, north of the depot. in the
bed of the river, and cast iron pipe
will be utilized.
The size of the pipe will be IS inches
in diameter, the grade not less than
Is of a foot per 100 feet, and the dis
lance about 5000 feet. At Hill street
the depth is about Is feet; Chase ave-
nue., 1873 feet; Main street, 1913 feet;
Pleasant street, 1873 feet; and Peter
street, II feet.
The sewer will run from Peter street
northerly in the bed of the river to g
point opposite Chase avenue, and that
will provide for the waste from the
Slater mills. The sewer from NORTH
Webster will connect with the main or
the easterly side of the river at Church
street.
The collecting we'll into which the
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feet in diameter covered, and of suffi
cient depth to hold $4,000 gallons. The
filter beds will be pumped during
the day, while the wastes from the
wooden mills is being discharged, The
filter beds will have not less than five
feet of filtering material, and where
under drains are laid, they shall bt
from five to six feet below the surface
The distribution from the force mair
will be eight-inch iron pipes, connected
with the same, and from trenches be.
tween the filter BEDS during the sum
mer months. it being made from the
trenches between the beds, and in the
winter season wholly from the distri-
button pipes
With the aid of Lucian A. Taylor. 6
clever civil engineer of Worcester, wher
the system is completed, and in work
ing order, Webster will have sewerage
system second to none in the state. The
cc:nmittee will do everything in theil
power to make it complete success.