The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-14
Provides for Over Ten Miles of Pipe
Sewer to Serve Irvfngton
and Tuxedo.
WILL COST ABOUT 100000
HEARING OF REMONSTRATORS Is
SET FOR APRIL 20.
Council Committee Has Not Yet Sc
cured Attorney to Conduct Sprink-
ling Contract Investiga tion.

Irvington's sanitary sewer system has
been completed in its design by City Engi-
neer Nelson and the resolution for its con-
struction was adopted by the Board Of
Public Works yesterday. The system is
the largest individual one designed by the
engineers office and let in one contract, as
this is provided for. Its total length is a
trife over ten miles. and. while the actual
cost has not been estimated by Mr.. Nelson,
it will not be far from 100000. The board
has fixed April % the day for hearing
remonstrances, and 1t is hoped to take
final action promptly and begin the work.
The engineer estimates that the system
may be constructed by December, as 1t is
provided that work on several portions
may be done simultaneously.
The system makes no provision for storm
water. 1t is exclusively a domestic system.
1t provides for practically all Of Irvington
and Tuxedo and it's length in Washington
street is a local sewer for abutting prop
erty. 1t connects with the East Washing
ton-street sewer at the Belt road. At this
point the East Washington-street sewer is
egg-shaped. two by three feet. and this will
be continued one block east, where the
main pipe sewer-twenty-two inches in
diameter-will connect. This Twenty-Five
inch sewer continues to Irvington, where it
divides into numerous branches serving
practically all of Irvington.
TEN-INCH PIPES
These branches are almost wholly ten
inch pipes, although there are portions
varying between two-two inches and ten
inches. The main sewer and all the
branches are so constructed that there is a
straight view between manholes, which is
of advantage in discovering obstructions.
In all there are 1SS manholes, and the dead
ends are to be provided with automatic
fiushers connected with the water system.
The main sewer passes over Pleasant run
under the steel bridge on Washington
street. A special steel bridge will support
the sewer pipe, which will be thirty inches
under the bridge. To give waterway the
bed of Pleasant run at this point will be
lowered eighteen inches. The grade Of the
sewer at the bridge will be six and one
half feet below the grade of the roadway.
From Pleasant run to the Belt the fall will
be thirteen feet, this being the uniform
rate of two feet in each one hundred.
IrviDgton, in sewer planning, properly
belongs TO the Pleasant run district, but as
the interceptor for this district has not
been constructed, and its construction is
improbable in the next three or four years,
tary system, which was deemed Immediate
ly necessary. There is little difficulty in
caring for the storm water by surface
drainage, and there is now a storm water
sewer in Washington street, emptying into
Pleasant run. which will serve for the inn
mediate future. The problem of getting the
sanitary sewer across Pleasant run being
solved. the sewage of Indianapolis east Of
the Belt will be carried through the city
The construction work is made expensive
In many places by deep cuts necessary. In
Washington street a cut of thirty feet Is
necessary and in Hawthorne avenue a cut
of twenty-three feet Is necessary. The
making of the plans for this system have
been tedious, thirty-six drawings, each
thirty-six by forty-eight inches. had to be
made. In the surveys Mr.. Nelson had four
made at different places to determine the
subsoil. and was disappointed in not finding
gravel. as was generally believed to exist
He found two layers Of hardpan, which add
to the expense or the work.
IRvINGTON WATER MAINS
Water mains are now In Irvington and
the water company will begin this month
the continuation Of the system begun by II
last fall on Washington street. The water
system is expected to be finished long be-
fore the sewer.
The cost OF the sewer will be assessed
against district as well as against abut-
ting property, Abutting property win pay