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fast land near Listers chemical works.
nearly parallel to the Shore and from 1sa
TO 20 feet back from the river bank, down
to the Morris Canal; thence back along
the northerly bank Of the canal to thd
upland; thence it viii follow the opposite
oank Of the canal to point near the easx
erly line Of Avenue R, and thence follows
ing line just east Of Avenue r to Me-
Gregor avenue, just south Of the Newark
and New York Railroad.
From the point the dixie vii exten0
southerly in a line generally parallel with
the river an bay shore to the northerIg
bank of Peddle street canal 1t will then
follow the bank OF the canal north to tha
bay shore. mad then it viii follow the bay
shore and the northerly bank of Bound
Creek 1t is intended that this main tide
bank shall form continuance line of di-
vision, excluding the exterior waters Of
the river and bay from the interior lowers
ed waters Of the tide marshes
The area drained by the Haskey Greek
pumping station is ntirely separated from
the lower area drained by tne Peddle
street pumping station, by cross bank
from the Legigh Valley Railroad and the
easteriy side OF the Eiizabethport Branch
Railroad
N.'1 SAeeh lAe engineer purposes
20 avert the storm water and sewage
now drained into the Peddle stret ditch
from S1,735 acres. The point of diversions
70 De about 800 fet east of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. Up both sides of this
new channel the main dixie is to ne ,sar-
rieo up Through an inverted siphon the
area cut off by this work will be drained.
betWeen the pumping station and
wheeler Creek the Peddie Canal will he
used as drainage ditch, and that por-
ton from the pumping station to the bav
VIII be enlarged to width Of sixty feet
and depth of twelve feet, as an ont
fail from the pumping station.
To suit the conditions of the subso,1
the construction of the dikes viii bs
! varied. The tops of the dflzes viii he
Ive feet above mean high tide. This will
be ample, as the dikes viii not be ex-
posed to serious wave action The d.
! mensions will be eight feet wide at me
top, with side slopes of one vertical foot
to one and one-half horizontal. The
slopes will be turfed from the meadows.
Where the meadow is firm and inner
vious trench two feet deep viii be dug
| and filed with clay, carefully puddled.
and the interior of the bank of selected
I
carefully rolled The remainder Of the
bank will be of meadow earth, rolled in
layers.
Where the subsoil is less impervious the
trench will be six feet or more, and
street piling of two inch planks viii be
driven in a double line, breaking Joints
and extending through the underlying
material.
Where unusually bad conditions prevail
the trench will be as deep as necessary,
and the planks will be four feet apart. and
will be filed by clay puddle Where the
| dixie crosses the larger creeks, concrete
dams Will be built.
In designing the pumping stations the
| flow of seepage through the dykes or wa
| ter in the ground is estimated at q. 600 600
gallons per hour for each lineal foot Of
| dikes. The sluice gates at the pumping
stations will carry off 800 cubic feet hour
ly for each acre drained.
system of drains will be used to re-
main open at first but which may be CON
verted into closed storm water sewers.
All sewerage is to be excluded from these.
bitches, in which case they may remain
open. These drains are to be located in
the middle of projected blocks. Lateral
drains will be run through streets These
are to be replaced by pipe drains when
strets are opened. At the pumping sta
tions the water from these drains will be
ten feet below the diver level.
There would be taken care of in the
drainage districts s,S66 acres of meadow
land and 1,763 acres of upland. The length
of the external dixie will be 7l.o00 feet.
It is estimated that the Hasgy Creek
station will have a capacity at 15eoD00
cubic feet per hour. that of the Peddie
station $4,000. The latter station will
| have plant of 2,400 horse power, but
only 100 horse power will be necessary
| most of the time. The Hasky Creek sta
tion plant will be equipped with 500 horse
power, the average work to be done re-
quiring only co horse power
In case of storm or other emergency
the reserve power WIN be required. The
plan provides for the use of gas engines
to do the pumping, the engines to use
producer gas, which will be made all the
time to be used only when needed The
storage capacities of the Peddie street
and Hasky Creek holders will be $1,000
and $4,000 cubic feet respectively
The plans sanitary features include the
building of the sewers in such way as
to make the disposal of them in the lower
bay below New York Narrows. To dis
charge sewage into the main pipe the
engineer proposes to utilize electric
pumping stations. The power, he points
out, can be generated at auxiliary sta
tons
The cost of draining the meadows il
placed at about $500 an acre, and main
tenance at $40 an acre per annum. This
includes the cost of dfkes, ditches.
bridges. roads, railroads and pumping
plants.
are that
First-The whole district will be
brought into sanitary condition at onc6
and at a cost that is not prohfbftive
Second-It will adapt all parts of the
meadows for the best commercial manu-
featuring or residence purposes at once.
Thrd-It will provide a better outfalI
for storm water from the built up parts OF
the Tenth and Twelfth wards than they
have at present.
Fourth-It will connect the Newark
Bay water front with the city and remove
the nutsances and lack of accessibility
which now prevent Improvement of the
frontage
Fifth-It is not experimental
Sixth-The proposed pumping plant is
the only one to give high economy with
prompt availability in case of sudden
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