Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-17
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Filed With the City and is to Be
Issued in Pamphlet Form-Is
Voluminous.
Deals With the Present Sewage
System, With Profiles Showing
Various Conditions.
Table Showing Number Of Feet d
Sewers in Use and Their Sizes
Interesting Figures.

The report by Professor A. Marston,
Of the chair of civil engineering of the
Iowa State Agricultural College, at
Ames, on the proposed sewage disposal.
plant for Marshalltown, has arrived in.
the city and mas bern TUNED over to
the printer and will be issued in book
form. The pamphlet will contain forty;
pages five and a half by eight and a
half inches and is complete with pro-
files maps and map showing the con-
dition of the sewage at different points
notably the packing house and glu-
cose works. The data for the design
for a sewage system has been collected:
by Mayor Pierce and his colleagues of
the sewage committee supervised by
Professor Marston, c. E. Weems. pro-
fessor of agricultural Chemistry, and
T.. H. Pammel professor of botany. all
of the Iowa State College.
+ The report deals with Marshalltown's
Industrial resources in truthful and
pleasing manner. 1t gives the general
topography of the city and describes
the sewage system now in vogue, de
viding the sewer system into three
parts as Caesar divided Gaul. From
data supplied by Superintendent of
Sewers f. q. Mack the report complies
the following data relative to these
three sewer systems:
SEWERS DRA1NISG TO
G N;W; 6 NJ Main AHA; Ssin.
sinch sewers q. 697 1O.os5.. 2ii5os..
inch sewers. o. o." 2,213 =
Is 1s inch sewers sewers soos l ss 49,.
inch sewers $3.50 s,4ss. LIZ
q inch sewers. o.. o. LIP
Total length s2o.ns2tt 15.l6sft 1919 #
s. Not including Soldiers Home sewer.l
Notwithstanding main y inch outlet from
Third avenue and ketchum strect.)
The total length of twenty-four-inch
main outlet sewer, beginning at Third
avenue and Ketchum street. is 12,01e
feet. The grade ranges between 0.13a
per cent and 0.174 per cent, averaging
S0.147 per cent. These grades, together
with the fact that the depth of the
sewer ranges from about seven feet at
ketcllunl street to five and a half feet
at the outlet, will serve to indicate
whether or not it is possible to avoid
dumping the sewage at the publication
plant The outlet sewer was con.
structed in 1891.
The following additional data arr
given relating to the sewers draining
into the main four-inch cutie
sewer:
/ Number OF square feet Of surfac
Whose storm water drains to sewers
$4,000.
approximate estimated number {
sewer connections. G4S.
Number OF water closets connected i
tributary district. 1893.
Total number Of fixtures connected i
tributary district, 1.3.S.
Number of lots within reach of sew
ers. l.22o.
Approximate (estimated) populatio
A served by sewers at present, 4,202.
4 Approximate (estimated) population
within reach of sewers. 800.
Part of the sewers in the southwest
Eern part of the city We're laid with un
cemented joints, 10 remove groun
/ water.
1t is not proposed to attempt at pres
i ent to pump any of the sewage excep
4 that discharged thru the main twenty
four-inch outlet.
The report goes on to give the analy
ses of city water and glucose Well waite
lalready published in the Times Repub