Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-03
FOR SEWAGE DISPOSAL
BIDS OPENED FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF PUMPING STATION.
Part Of the Elaborate System in View
for District-Details
Of Plan.

Proposals for the construction of the new
sewerage pumping station at the foot OF
New Jersey avenue southeast were opened
at noon today at the District building. The
pumping station Is a part Of the elaborate
sewage disposal system which has been I'M
der construction for several years past and
which will eventually discharge all the sew
age of the capital city into the Potomac
river several miles down. The city sewage
both from high ind low levels will be con-
veyed by various lines OF trunk and inter-
cepting sewers TO the pumping station. By
machinery the sewage will be lifted from
the deep wells and siphoned across the An
acostia river into an outlet sewer which
will discharge below Magazine Point,
where the river is wide and the volume of
water such as to Immediately diffuse the
matter.
The proposals submitted today were based
upon the foundation work and the build
ing proper separately. The foundation
work of such a station is necessarily i'm
pOrtant and intricate and so the Com
missioners deemed 1t wise to separate the
two classes of work. The foundation. or
substructure, work calls for the building
foundations, masonry conduts, screen and
sediment chambers, gate wells pump wells,
etc. The various items of this work were
bid upon separately by the cubic yard or
linear foot as the case might be. The
prices ranged quite widely, and it will re-
quire a good deal Of computation in the
sewer division to find out just whose bid
for the substructure work as whole Is
lowest
Seven Bids Received.
In all seven bids were received, and as
the specifications required that each should
be accompanied by certified check for
$4,000, the District treasury Is richer, tenn
porariy, by $1O5.OOO The plans for the
jumping station were drawn for the Dis
trict by Mr.. c. A. Didden. and show typt-
cal building adapted to house heavy ma
chinery.
The station will be about 800 feet long and
about 100 feet wide. 1t is to be constructed
of light-colored impervious brick, with
terra Gotta trimmings, and will be f1reproof
throughout. Appropriations amounting to
about 100000 have already been made by
Congress to cover the cost Of the building
and the machinery. The contract for por-
ton Of the machinery has already been let
to the Allis- Chalmers Company Of Detroit.
Mich. at a cost of $685.
The lowest bid for the building proper
submitted today was that Of Ambrose II.
Stannard Of New York city, whose figure was
$4,000. The bids called out prior to this
one had been considerably in excess OF this
amount. 1t was next to the last proposal
opened, and the reading of the figures Gre
ated something OF a stir. Mr.. Stannard Is
a well-known contractor, and If the bid Is
formal In all ways he will undoubtedly Sc
cure the contract for the building. Mr..
Stannard also bid on the substructure.
The next lowest bidder for the building
was the Brennan Construction Company OF
this city. This company proposed to erect
the building above the foundations for $685.
600, and also bid on the substructure. The
George A Fuller Company put in bid Of
1923 .934 The. Penn Bridge Company Of
Beaver Falls Pa. put in bid Of 1894. 1877:
Herman Probst Of New York bid 1858. 600.
and Richardson s. Burgess Of this city,
$3.50 $50 All of these also bid on the founda-
ton work. Andrew Gleason Of this city bid
only on the foundation work.