Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-12
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Agreed Upon Conditions for the Bald
 win Street Trolley.

l.
 The department of public works net yesterday afternoon and agreed upon the following conditions for troll ley service on Baldwin street:
 l. That the location of the tracks from Cole street through Franklin street to Union street, adjoin the west line of Union square, so called.
 Z. That said company shall repair and strengthen the bridge over Mad river, known as Scovilps bridge. so that 1t shall be safe under the changed conditions and shall thereafter bear q reasonable proportion of the cost of keeping and maintaining said bridge Ill safe condition, and also. whenever in the opinion of the board of alder men, public necessity and convenience require the reconstruction or widening | or said bridge, or the removal of said bridge and the construction of new, wider and stronger bridge. of such di- mensions and materials as said board shall determine, the. said Connecticut Hallway and Lighting Go shall pay to the city of Waterbury reasonable { proportion of the total cost of such changes ill said bridge. or of such new bridge, and shall thereafter bear req sonable proportion of the cost of main ta1n1ng such new or reconstructed bridge in safe condition.
 ! 5. That wherever the company shall lay turnout upon the streets de- scribed in this proposed extension. it shall, at such places, pave the roadway from curb to curb, including the spaces ! between the rails, with cobble pave . ment satisfactory to the board of com missioners of public works. Such pavement shall be laid for the full I length of such turnout.
 l 4. That the poles used for the SUD- port of the wires for the operation of the cars of said company along said road shall be of wood or iron of neat i design and subject to the approval of | the board of commissioners of public works.
 | ,. From Baldwin Hill street to the 1 terminus of the said railroad company ! shall widen the highway upon which ! its tracks are to be laid to the full !, width as laid out by the town of Wa i terbury, bringing all of said highway 1 to the even existing grade. and leaving condition for public travel. .
 6. That said company shall lay and maintain a cobble pavement between the rails and two feet on each side throughout the whole length of the line as described in this extension.
 The conditions fall far short of what the law provides the city is entitled to, so that if the company does not go to work and build the road everybody will know the reason why. The mat ter will come before the aldermen Mon- day night. when. no doubt. the report will be adopted and a time limit for doing the work tackled on.
 Engineer Cairns submitted the fol 1n 10f +<> fc- posal:
 The Honorable Board of Commission-
 CTS of Public Works:
 Gentlemen: At meeting of your honorable board, held February 12. 1904, you directed me ito report upon the practicability of any of the sew eral plans suggested for sewage dis posal. and as to the length of time which any of the said plans deemed practicable may be relied, upon to be etfective.'
 Trunk Sewer to the Sound. at.
 One of the first plans thought of for diverting sewage from the Naugatuck river involved the construction of q conduit the whole length of the valley from Torrfngton to Milford Point. It was to be proportioned to receive all the sewage of the various cities and horoughs and was to discharge q mile or more off the Point, in deep water where it would be swept away by the strong tidal currents and so thorough ly diluted that it would not in any way affect either the fishing or oyster industries, nor would any of 1t ever reach the shore.
 I am fully satisfied that such plan would he feasible. and think that 1t f,,J \ I %fnyN z ether municipalities in the valley were ns much concerned in this matter as Waterbury. At present. however. these other communities are not pre- pared to join in the undertaking, and the cost would be too great for us to undertake 1t alone.
 No exact estimate has ever been pre- pared. but in report on this subject made by Rudolph Herring in 1896 it is surmised that the expenditure would ont be less than S1.500,000. Any of the other plans mentioned below will serve Waterbury satisfactorily at less cost. , Tunnel to Cheshire and Filtration
 Beds.
 An interesting suggestion has been made to the effect that a tunnel could he driven from the lower part of the city easterly through the ridge dividing the valleys of the Naugatuck and Quin- nipiac rivers, and that through such passage the sewage could be carried and delivered on filtration areas in the town of Cheshire. The tunnel required would be about 57. miles long, start, ing from the Naugatuck road just be- low Simonsyille, and ending in tue valley of Ten Mile river, south of -M4x- vile. There would be a fall in the tunnel of about sixty feet. Taking the minimum size of heading which can be economically driven, in conjunction with a fall of eleven feet per mile, gives a capacity sufficient for a long time to come.
 In Cheshire abundant areas of land would be accessible on which the sew age could easily be treated, and any required degree of purification could be obtained I
 The project, so far as Waterbury is concerned, has all the merits of the trunk sewer to the Sound, with others peculiar to ttse1f and at the same time avoids the opposition which the latter scheme would surely encounter. \